Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider

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Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider

Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider (born September 27, 1771 in Küblingen , † January 27, 1849 in Halle (Saale) ) was a Protestant theologian and the most important dogmatist of theological rationalism .

Life

Wegscheider studied theology at the University in Helmstedt in which theology professor Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke and tutor was then a Hamburg Family (1795-1805). In 1805 he was repetent at the University of Göttingen and in 1806 accepted a call from the University of Rinteln as a professor of theology and philosophy.

In this role, Wegscheider moved to the theological faculty of the University of Halle in 1810 , where the rationalist was reprimanded by the government in 1830 as an alleged mocker of Christianity. The trigger for this procedure was a public denunciation by Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach , who u. a. had taken place in the " Evangelical Church newspaper ".

At the instigation of the Brunswick Lodge, Wegscheider was accepted into the Hamburg Freemason Lodge Ferdinand zum Felsen in 1795 ; In 1815 he joined the lodge to the three swords in Halle. He was an honorary member of the Great Lodge of Hamburg and Honorary Master of the Great National Mother Lodge "To the three world balls" .

At the age of 77, Julius Wegscheider died on January 27, 1849 in Halle, where he found his final resting place in the Laurentiusfriedhof .

Works (selection)

  • De Graecorum mysteriis religioni non obtrudendis . Röwer, Göttingen 1805.
  • Institutiones theologicae christianae dogmaticae . Edition “Culture & Civilization”, Brussels 1981 (reprint of the Leipzig 1815 edition).
  • About the separation of morality from religion required by the latest philosophy . Edition “Culture & Civilization” 1969 (reprint of the Hamburg 1804 edition).
  • An attempt at a complete introduction to the Gospel of John . Röwer, Göttingen 1806.

literature

  • Gustav Frank :  Wegscheider, Julius August Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 427-432.
  • Jörg Lauster: Principle and method. The transformation of the Protestant writing principle through historical criticism from Schleiermacher to the present day . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-16-148305-7 , pp. 37-40.
  • Dieter Lent: Wegscheider, Julius August Ludwig . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 642.
  • Christian Stephan: The silent faculty. Biographical contributions to the history of the theological faculty of the University of Halle . Edition Stekovics, Dößel 2005, ISBN 3-89923-103-1 , pp. 158-161.
  • Jean M. Vincent: Life and work of the Halle theologian Julius Wegscheider . Spenner Verlag, Waltrop 1997, ISBN 3-927718-95-5 (knowledge and criticism; 13).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bengt Hägglund: History of theology. A demolition . Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1990, ISBN 978-3-579-05078-2 , p. 275.
personal data
SURNAME Wegscheider, Julius August Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Küblingen
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1849
Place of death Halle (Saale)