Johann Kaspar Velthusen

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Johann Kasper Velthusen

Johann Kaspar Velthusen , also: Johann Caspar Velthusen (born August 7, 1740 in Wismar , † April 13, 1814 in Stade ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Johann Kaspar Velthusen was born as the son of the businessman Peter Velthusen and his wife Dorothea Ilsabe, née Steffens, on August 7, 1740 in Wismar. After attending school in Wismar, he moved to the University of Göttingen in 1759 to study theology and philosophy , which lasted until 1764. He spent the following three years as a tutor with his future father-in-law Georg Ernst Meyer. He was then employed as a deacon in Hameln , in 1770 he went to London to become chaplain and preacher at the court orchestra there. He married Elise Margarethe Meyer in 1772. He stayed in London for only three years, because in 1773 he became pastor and superintendent in Gifhorn .

Two years later, on April 4, 1775, the University of Göttingen awarded him the degree of theological doctor , and in the same year he accepted a position as a full theology professor at the University of Kiel to where he was rector also 1777/1778. He moved to the University of Helmstedt as such in 1778, was again superintendent, pastor to St. Stephen and abbot of the Mariental monastery. After teaching in Helmstedt for nine years, he went on to the University of Rostock , where, in addition to a professorship and rectorate, he also held a position as senior councilor and superintendent. In 1791 he went to Stade as general superintendent for Bremen-Verden and died there on April 13, 1814 at the age of 73.

A significant part of his late work deals with the relationship of the Christian building of faith to the Freemasonry of his time, especially to the high degrees .

Works

  • The prophet Isaiah's perspective painting of the times or book of comfort for the people of God with two supplements, a song of comfort and a Hebrew book of comfort to the Jewish nation. Note: He was guided by the thought, inspired by philanthropic love, to arouse interest in the people to whom we "owe our essential salvation under God's directing providence" and to offer them "our hand to promote their civil and earthly salvation" (1803)
  • Commemorative sermon on the blessed transition of our Duke Karl resting in God (Braunschweig 1780)
  • Helmstedt Catechism (1787)
  • Das Hohe Lied, accompanied by a complete commentary and historical critical investigations (Braunschweig 1786)
  • The Amethyst, contribution, historical critical research on the Song of Songs in closer relation to the history of mankind (Braunschweig 1786)
  • Populi Judaici caritas commendatur Christianis (Helmstedt 1782)
  • About the next determination of the country preacher status. A contribution to pastoral theology initiated by Mr. Campe [...] (Helmstedt 1787)
  • About intentions and tendencies (Helmstedt 1787)
  • About knowledge and belief with the intention of religion and revelation with a wave of Isaiah 40-46 (Stade 1794)
  • Historical hints about real and unlawful Freemasonry (Leipzig 1804) ( digitized version )
  • Noticeable influence of Portuguese and Spanish Jews, Chaldeans and Hebrews, accompanied by Phoenician seafarers on the cultivation of Hibernia and the long line of the Scottish sailor islands on the finer education of the bard Ossian on the oldest [...] real Scottish Freemasonry (Leipzig 1807)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. the collective review of Masonic writings by Velthusen, among others, in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung No. 112 of May 21, 1807 ( digitized version )


personal data
SURNAME Velthusen, Johann Kaspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Velthusen, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Wismar
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1814
Place of death Stade