Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler

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Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler (born March 3, 1792 in Petershagen , † July 8, 1854 in Göttingen ) was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian .

Live and act

After attending the orphanage school and university in Halle , he took part in the Wars of Liberation from November 1813 and became a teacher in Halle in 1814. In 1817 he became vice principal at the grammar school in Minden and in 1818 director in Kleve .

On the basis of a work on the transmission of the Gospels, Gieseler was appointed professor of theology in Bonn in 1819 . In 1830/31 he was the rector of the university. In 1831 he moved to the University of Göttingen and was appointed consistorial councilor there in 1837 .

Gieseler was accepted into the Masonic lodge Zu den Drei Degen in Halle in 1817 and from 1822 was the master of the chair of the Lodge Augusta to the golden circle in Göttingen.

In 1844 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Works

Gieseler's main work is the textbook of church history in 5 volumes. He edited the first 3 volumes himself (Bonn 1824–1835), Ernst Rudolf Redepenning published volumes 4 and 5 in 1855–1857 and added the 6th volume, Dogmengeschichte .

Other writings:

  • Historical-critical attempt on the origin and the earliest fate of the written Gospels. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1818, ( full text ).
  • About the Nazarene and Ebionites. In: Archives for old and new church history. Vol. 4, St. 2, 1819, ZDB -ID 526999-4 , pp. 279-330 .
  • Something about the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1530. To correct several distortions of the history and to explain some misused passages from Luther's letters, initially with reference to the script: “Luther's Catholic Monument” Francfurt aM 1817. Schultz & Wundermann, Hamm 1821.
  • with Friedrich Lücke : magazine for educated Christians of the Evangelical Church. 4 booklets. Elberfeld 1823-1824, ZDB ID 896548-1 .
  • Review of the theological and ecclesiastical directions and developments over the past fifty years A letter of congratulations to his dear father, Mr. Georg Christ. Friedr. Gieseler, Doctor of Theology, first preacher in Werther near Bielefeld, on May 24th, 1837 for his jubilee in office. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1837.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 92.
personal data
SURNAME Gieseler, Johann Karl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theology, church historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Petershagen
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1854
Place of death Goettingen