Johann Ludwig Ewald

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Johann Ludwig Ewald

Johann Ludwig Ewald (born September 16, 1748 (other sources 1747 are incorrect) in Dreieichenhain in the county of Ysenburg ; † March 19, 1822 in Karlsruhe ) was a German Reformed theologian , educator and writer.

biography

Ewald was the son of a land rent master (church finance administration), who raised him very pietistically . He studied theology at the University of Marburg and the University of Göttingen . He worked as a preceptor (teacher) in Kassel . Ewald was then pastor in the county of Hanau and from 1770 in Offenbach . In 1781 he was appointed court preacher and general superintendent in Lippe-Detmold . His educational and enlightening reform activities, especially in the elementary school system of Lippe, were recognized as early as 1790.

From 1796 to 1805 Ewald was a preacher at St. Stephen's Church in Bremen . Here he successfully campaigned for reforms in the Bremen school system. In 1805 he was appointed professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg . In 1799 he published the volume Fantasies on a journey through areas of peace, the description of a journey through northern Germany undertaken with a doctor friend and his family , probably in May 1798. He concludes the work with a vision of the year 1898, when the representatives of all nations agree to outlaw wars of aggression, restrictions on free trade and the like and to pursue a sensible, enlightened policy. From 1807 Ewald was also a member of the Baden church council in Karlsruhe .

He wrote many theological and educational works. He was very connected to the Pestalozzian educational method, but was unable to further develop it in practice after taking over his theological offices in Karlsruhe.

Works

  • Christian family sermons for the middle class. Lemgo 1784 ( LLB Detmold ).
  • About the Kantian philosophy with a view to the needs of humanity . Unger, Berlin 1790.
  • About popular enlightenment, its limits and advantages . Unger, Berlin 1790.
  • Draft of the religious instruction that Prince Casimir August von der Lippe has received so far. Hanover 1792 ( LLB Detmold ).
  • David. Detmold 1795 ( LLB Detmold ).
  • Farewell sermon to my dear Detmold community. Detmold 1796 ( LLB Detmold ).
  • Entry sermon at the congregation of St. Stephan in Bremen given on the first Christmas day 1796. ( LLB Detmold ).
  • Johann Ludwig Ewald and Johann Caspar Häfeli : Presentation to Bremen's patriotic and noble-minded citizens regarding the establishment of a citizens' school ; Bremen 1798.
  • The art of becoming a good girl, a good wife, mother and housewife , Bremen 1798 ( LLB Detmold ).
  • Fantasies on a journey through areas of peace by EPvB , Hanover 1799 (Ewald acts as the fictional editor of the travel report through Northern Germany, which he obviously wrote himself).
  • Mehala , a drama from 1808.
  • Spirit and progress of the Pestalozzian method of education, developed psychologically ; Mannheim and Heidelberg 1810.
  • The omnipresence of God ; Hennings'sche Buchhandlung, Gotha 1819.
  • Letters about the old mysticism and the new mysticism , Leipzig 1822.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Martin Kirn: Habilitation thesis according to Johann Anselm Steiger : Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822): Rescue of a theological contemporary. Göttingen 1996, p. 28
  2. ↑ Bernd Groß: family book Dreieichenhain. Dreieich 2011, p. 131
  3. ↑ according to Black Forest and Bremen biographies of the 19th century. P. 129 and Ammann: Pfarrerbuch II , p. 58 and Rotermund p. 118–122
  4. ↑ Hans-Martin Kirn, 1998, p. 26.

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personal data
SURNAME Ewald, Johann Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ewald, Johannes Ludwig; Ewald, Joan Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Theologian, educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Dreieichenhain
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1822
Place of death Karlsruhe