Johann Georg Ludwig Brakebusch

Johann Georg Ludwig Brakebusch , also Brackebusch (born January 12, 1768 in Bockenem , † 1835 in Groß Solschen ) was a German Lutheran theologian and writer of the Enlightenment .

Life

Brakebusch, the son of a businessman who died young, received his first training from Superintendent Schumacher in Bockenem and at the Lyceum in Wernigerode. He studied theology from 1788 at the University of Leipzig, where he also published his first literary works (novels and fiction) in various magazines. In 1791 he was first court master of the von Hammerstein family in Equord . In 1801 he became pastor in Klein Mahner . In 1810 he became pastor in Mehrum and Equord, in 1812 also special superintendent of the Peine inspection , in 1813 consistorial assistant. From 1827 he was pastor, later also superintendent in Groß Solschen.

In 1824 Brakebusch was awarded an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen.

Works

• For the mind and heart of educated people (Hannover 1791)
• Diary of a people observer (Hanover 1792)
• Karl Trautmann. history of his life and his intellectual development up to the male age (Hanover 1792)
• Proposals for safeguarding the izt existing state constitutions of the German Reichsländer against internal unrest (Braunschweig 1797)
• Elisa, no woman as it should be: A most necessary word for the correct appreciation of the writing Elisa, or woman as it should be (Hildesheim 1800)
• The country pastor, viewed from the perspective of a philanthropic policy (Hildesheim 1808)
• The country school, from the point of view of the church and civil society with reference to the Morgenröthe by Heinrich Hauer (Hildesheim 1816)
• Letters to Protestant Christians who have become mad about their church (under the pseudonym Christianus Augustanus, Hanover 1823).

literature

• Alexander Rose: The office of Peine in the time of the Enlightenment and the late Enlightenment (around 1800). With articles about Johann Peter Hundiker, Andreas Bahrs, Siegfried Rave and Ludwig Brakebusch . Published by the Heimat-Verein Oberg, Lahstedt 2008
• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers . Volume 1, Bremen 1823, p. 241f.