Johann Leonhard Callisen

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Johann Leonhard Callisen (born August 23, 1738 in Preetz ; † November 12, 1806 in Rendsburg ) was a Protestant theologian and general superintendent of Holstein .

Life

Johann Leonhard Callisen - eldest son of the preacher at the Preetz monastery Johannes Callisen (1695–1759) - came from a Schleswig-Holstein pastor family, to which Georg Calixt also belonged. His brother was the surgeon Heinrich Callisen .

Because of the early death of her father, Callisen was only able to study at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen for two years . Before he took up his first pastor's position in Plön , he was a private tutor for six years . Then he was pastor in Zarpen . As a senior pastor in Oldesloe (from 1782) he made after the death of his son in 1790 carefully multiple fonts at: the edification The last day of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark and About the sense of liberty of our time , which is critical of the French Revolution dealt . Therefore, after the death of Adam Struensee in 1792, he was appointed general superintendent in the Duchy of Holstein . His colleague was Jacob Georg Christian Adler .

As a theologian of Lutheran Orthodoxy with close contacts to the conservative Emkendorfer Kreis , Callisen was not without controversy among the scholars of his time:

His essay on the value of the Enlightenment of our time , which appeared in 1795 and which turned against the religion of reason , led to a violent (anonymous) reply by August Hennings , to which Matthias Claudius in turn replied with Von und Mit .

The fact that Callisen signed the Schleswig-Holstein Church Agende drawn up by his colleague in 1796 , although it contradicted his theology, led twenty years later to a posthumous attack by Johann Heinrich Voss , against whom his son Johann Friedrich Leonhard Callisen , provost and preacher in Rendsburg, made him attack , defended.

Works

  • The last days of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Mark ; 1791, 3rd edition 1834
  • About the sense of freedom of our time ; 1791
  • Attempt on the value of the enlightenment of our time , 1795

literature

Individual evidence

  1. August Hennings: Comments on the attempt ... , Altona 1795
  2. Matthias Claudius: By and with the unnamed author of the "Comments" on the HOCR and GS Callisen attempt on the value of the enlightenment of our time. Hamburg [1796].
  3. JH Voss: How did Fritz Stolberg become unfree? In Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus : Sophronizon 1819 3rd issue, pp. 1–113. With index nominum and afterword edited by Klaus Manger; Heidelberg 1984.
  4. ^ Johann Friedrich Leonhard Callisen: Honorary rescue of my father Johann Leonhard Callisen, against the accusations of the court councilor Johann Heinrich Voss zu Heidelberg in the 3rd piece of the Sophronizon: together with an appendix about the new Protestantism , Schleswig 1820.
predecessor Office successor
Adam Struensee General superintendent for Holstein
1792–1806
Jacob Georg Christian Adler