Johannes Andreas Rehhoff

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Johannes Andreas Rehhoff (born August 28, 1800 in Tondern ; † January 9, 1883 in Hamburg ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Johannes Andreas Rehhoff was born in 1800 as the son of the then archdeacon Philipp Andreas Rehoff († March 21, 1833 in Broacker ) and his wife Marie Christine (née Klinck) in Tondern. Initially he was privately educated by his father, then attended the school in his hometown and the scholars' school in Husum , where he acquired the tools to be able to attend a university. In 1819 he began studying theology at Kiel University , with Claus Harms promoting him. He moved to Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , where he attended lectures with Friedrich Schleiermacher and August Neander and was also supervised by the then young lecturer August Tholuck .

"Johannes Andreas Rehhoff d. Senior ”, collective grave of the main pastors of St. Michaelis , Ohlsdorf cemetery

In 1824 he passed his first theological exam in Gottorf . Afterwards he was first tutor, then from November 1826 a deacon in Tellingstedt and from 1830 archdeacon in Tondern. In 1837 he became provost and chief pastor in Aabenraa , where he was awarded the Order of Danebrog in 1841 . In 1848 the Provisional Government appointed him general superintendent of the Danish-speaking population in the Duchy of Schleswig , while the government appointed Nicolaus Nielsen to the parallel office for German-speaking pastoral care. As a result of his support for the Schleswig-Holstein side in the Schleswig-Holstein War , he was dismissed from all offices by the Danish government in 1850. For a short time (1850–1851) Minister of Culture of Schleswig, the Theological Faculty of Kiel University appointed him an honorary doctorate in theology.

On May 25, 1851, he was elected chief pastor of the St. Michaelis Church in Hamburg . He took up this post on October 7 of the same year. After the German-Danish War , the Prussian government gave him the leadership of a commission in 1864 that was supposed to regulate the school and church system in the now Prussian province of Schleswig. On January 5, 1870, he was elected to the position of senior of the Hamburg Ministry of Spiritual Affairs , making him the leading clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state .

After he had established a foundation for theology students, among other things, he resigned the office of senior in 1879 and his office as pastor at the Hamburg Michel in 1880. Rehhoffstrasse near the "Hamburger Michel" was named after him.

Johannes Andreas Rehhoff is on the collection plate Tomb civil servants of Althamburgischen Memorial Cemetery , Cemetery Ohlsdorf , recalls.

literature

  • Carsten Erich Carstens :  Rehhoff, Johannes Andreas . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 596 f.
  • Lorenz P. Wree: Johannes Andreas Rehhoff - a North Schleswig faith witness after 1800 , writings of the local history study group for North Schleswig, issue 56/57, Aabenraa 1987/88
  • Lorenz P. Wree: Rehhoff, Johannes Andreas in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 9, Neumünster 1991

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CF Bricka, Laurs Laursen: Dansk biografisk Lexikon, tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. Gyldendalske Boghandele Verlag, Copenhagen, 1899, 12th vol., P. 584
predecessor Office successor
Christian Friedrich Callisen General superintendent for Schleswig
(for Danish-speaking pastoral care)
1848–1850 		Christoph Carl Julius Asschenfeldt
August Jacob Rambach Chief Pastor to St. Michaelis
1851–1879 		Georg Behrmann
personal data
SURNAME Rehhoff, Johannes Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senior of the Ministry of Spirituality, Senior Pastor in the Michel (1851–1879)
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Tondern
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1883
Place of death Hamburg