Johannes Ramsauer (pastor)

Johannes Otto Martin Ramsauer (born April 17, 1832 in Oldenburg ; † December 7, 1918 there ) was a German Protestant pastor and later senior church councilor in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Ramsauer was the son of the educator of the princes of the Oldenburg ruling house Johannes Ramsauer (1790–1848) in Oldenburg and his wife Wilhelmine nee. Schultheß (1795-1874). The family originally came from Switzerland , where his father was a student and long-time companion of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi before he came to Oldenburg. His mother also came from Switzerland and was the daughter of the Zurich deacon Johann Georg Schulthess (1758–1802). Her family was part of the extensive family of Pestalozzi's wife.

From 1851 to 1853 Ramsauer studied theology in Erlangen with the Lutherans Gottfried Thomasius , Johann von Hofmann and Franz Delitzsch, among others . He then moved to the University of Berlin and heard the mediation theologians Karl Immanuel Nitzsch and August Twesten . On December 14, 1854, he took the tentamen in Oldenburg and the exam on March 5, 1857. During his candidate period he was a private tutor for the branch of the Count Bernstorff family in Gartow .

In 1858 he took up his first job as a pastor in Neuenkirchen and was ordained there on August 15, 1858 . Grand Duke Peter II appointed Ramsauer on January 1, 1868, as the second spiritual member of the Upper Church Council, of which he was a member until his retirement on October 1, 1910. In 1879 he became a secret councilor and in 1899 a secret councilor.

Ramsauer was considered by his contemporaries to be an extremely knowledgeable theologian, well versed in classical and oriental languages . Its strongly by his parents' house pietistic colored orthodoxy coined his duties. The view of the Oldenburg church history of the 19th century, as presented in his memoirs, as well as his anonymously published directory of Oldenburg preachers sorted by parish are still important today.

family

On May 26, 1859, Ramsauer married Wibertha Zellweger, who came from Trogen near Appenzell in Switzerland.

Works

• published anonymously: The preachers of the Duchy of Oldenburg since the Reformation. Oldenburg. 1909.
• From the memories of church life in the Duchy of Oldenburg in the 19th century. Published in: Oldenburgisches Kirchenblatt. Issue 37. 1932.

literature

• Rolf Schäfer : Ramsauer, Johannes Otto Martin. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 581-582 ( online ).