Johann Karl Wilhelm Alt

Johann Karl Wilhelm Alt (born October 1, 1797 in Hoyerswerda ; † December 22/23, 1869 in Hamburg ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

"Johann Carl Wilhelm Alt D. Senior", double collecting grave plate, main pastors to St. Petri / pastors to St. Petri , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Johann Karl Wilhelm Alt was born on October 1, 1797 in Hoyerswerda as the son of the surgeon Johann Georg Valentin Alt and his wife. Since 1810 he stayed in the school gate . He moved to the University of Leipzig in 1814 to study Protestant theology , and from 1817 to the University of Halle . In the autumn of that year he passed his theological exam and in the following time worked as a tutor of a noble family. Under August Neander he continued his training as a preacher in Merseburg from 1819 . There he was also head of a girls' school.

Alt received his doctorate in philosophy in 1821 . Two years later he went to Eisleben and became a deacon and finally worked as a pastor from 1829 . On May 24, 1835, he was appointed senior pastor to the main church of Sankt Petri in Hamburg. He also received a doctorate in theology the following year. He was also a senior in the Hamburg ministry from March 5, 1860 . Alt, 72 years old, died on the night of December 22nd to 23rd, 1869.

He left two sons, one became a doctor and the other a lawyer .

Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Klose praised Alt as a righteous and honest theologian and attributed him to rationalism . But he was particularly concerned with the oriental languages , but was not an important preacher , rather a sober one, while his causal speeches got him better. He also translated the New Testament . He used novel expressions, which is why the translation was not well perceived. On the other hand, Alt supported young men.

Johann Karl Wilhelm Alt is commemorated on the double collecting grave plate, main pastors to St. Petri / pastors to St. Petri of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, Ohlsdorf Cemetery .

Works

• 14 volumes of his sermons from 1835 to 1848, with four sermons published in this way each year
• a four-volume translation of the New Testament from 1837 to 1839
• Suggestions from the field of spiritual eloquence (two parts, Leipzig 1833 to 1835)

literature

• Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Klose :  Alt, Johann Karl Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 355 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Julius Willerding	Senior pastor at St. Petri in Hamburg 1835–1869	Adolf Kreusler