Johann Funk (Pastor)

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Johann Aegidius Ludwig Funk (born February 3, 1792 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † May 26, 1867 in Lübeck ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor.

life and work

Funk was the son of a tailor. His school visit in Königsberg was financially supported by an officer. After elementary school, he attended the Löbenichtsche Anstalt in 1801 and, from 1803, the Old Town High School . There he found another sponsor in Christian Jakob Kraus . In early 1809, Funk began studying theology at the University of Königsberg . From the end of 1809 until Easter 1810 he interrupted his studies and became a teacher at a normal institute that was newly created by the Prussian educational reform . In 1812 he finished his studies and passed the church exam in 1814. In 1815 he was brigade preacher in the Prussian army, in 1816 field chaplain in the army corps of General Hans Graf von Zieten . Despite a number of applications, he did not succeed in getting a pastor's post in East or West Prussia. In the wake of Friedrich Schleiermacher , he came into conflict with the church policy of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. when he laid down and published his strictly Lutheran position in writing in 1818. This led to the fact that he was isolated in the emerging dispute in Prussia and was not given a job. A liturgical history of Prussia that he had tackled was not allowed to appear there. In 1827, despite Schleiermacher's protection, he applied unsuccessfully for the post of pastor at the General Hospital in Hamburg. Influential circles in Hamburg then supported his application for a pastor's position at the Marienkirche in Lübeck , which was finally successful in 1829.

In Lübeck he fought against the softening tendencies of the Enlightenment and for a restoration of Orthodox Lutheranism. However, the Senate let its demand for appropriate autonomy of the church in Lübeck come to nothing. The state church was preserved. In 1855, on the anniversary of the Peace of Augsburg , he triggered a dispute with the Reformed, in which he highlighted the contradictions between the two directions and presented them as unbridgeable.

He was married to (Ferdinande Juliane Wilhelmine) Henriette, geb. Elsner from Berlin (born July 10, 1805 - † December 5, 1890), a daughter of Samuel Elsner . The lawyer and historian Martin Funk was his son.

Pastor Kölling in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks wears features from Johann Aegidius Ludwig Funk.

Works

  • Spirit and form of the cult ordered by ... Martin Luther: illustrated from his writings. Berlin: Nicolai 1818
  • The oddities of the Marien-Kirche in Lübeck. Lübeck 1823 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library )
  • Church order of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany in its first century. Berlin 1824
  • Historical illumination of the agendas in the Brandenburg church ordinances from 1540 and 1572 and the Prussian from 1558, to which the church agendas for the court and cathedral church in Berlin from 1821 and 1822 refer as their basis. New edition. Neustadt ad O .: Wagner 1827
  • The Augsburg Confession: German based on Melanchthon's main edition v. J. 1530; with the variants of the other ecclesiastical editions. Lübeck: von Rohden 1830
  • The basis of the original establishment of the Lübeck Church: a lecture in the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities on March 22nd of the year. J. Lübeck: Rohden 1831
  • Is the State the Church? Lübeck: von Rohden 1845
  • The immunities or exemptions of the Christian clergy, university and school teachers: examined according to archaeological and canonical law for origin and significance. Grimma: Gebhardt, 1852

literature

  • Martin Funk: Johann Aegidius Ludwig Funk, because. Dr. theol. and pastor at St. Marien zu Lübeck: messages from his life.
Part 1: 1792-1829. Gotha: Perthes 1873 ( digitized version )
Part 2: 1829-1867. Gotha: Perthes 1884
  • Jendris Alwast: Funk, Johann in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Volume 11, Neumünster 2000, pp. 117-120 ISBN 3-529-02640-2 , corrected ISBN 3-529-02640-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spirit and form of the cult ordered by D. Martin Luther, illustrated from his writings.
  2. ↑ Martin Funk : In memory of Mrs. Pastor (Ferdinande Juliane Wilhelmine Henriette) Funk, geb. Elsner. Printed as handwriting (Berlin), undated [1890]
  3. ↑ See Manfred Eickhölter: Pastor Kölling alias Johann Aegidius Funk , in: Hans Wißkirchen (ed.): Die Welt der Buddenbrooks. Frankfurt, M .: S. Fischer 2008 ISBN 978-3-10-091211-4 , pp. 91-93
personal data
SURNAME Funk, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Funk, Johann Agidius Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, Evangelical Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1867
Place of death Lübeck