Johann Leonhard Callisen

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

Hans-Albrecht Koch: Callisen, Johann Leonhard ; in. Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon Volume 3, Neumünster 1974; Pp. 67-69
Thomas Otto Achelis: Callisen, Johann Leonhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 97 f. ( Digitized version ).
Eduard Alberti : Callisen, Johann Leonhard (the younger) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 710 f.
Detlev L. Lübker, Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828 , 1. Dept. A – M, Verlag K. Aue, Altona, 1829, p. 93, no. 175, ( online )

Individual evidence

↑ August Hennings: Comments on the attempt ... , Altona 1795
↑ 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].
↑ 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.
^ 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

personal data
SURNAME	Callisen, Johann Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian, General Superintendent von Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH	August 23, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH	Preetz
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 1806
Place of death	Rendsburg

[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.