Julius Rupp

Julius Rupp

Friedrich Julius Leopold Rupp (born August 13, 1809 in Königsberg ; † July 11, 1884 there ) was a German theologian , publicist and university professor .

Life

Rupp attended the old town high school in Königsberg and studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the Albertus University in Königsberg from 1827 to 1830 . He then spent two years at the oldest German seminary in Wittenberg . He received his doctorate in 1832 and was employed as a teacher of German, history and religion at his previous school in 1835 . In 1842 he became divisional preacher at the Castle Church (Königsberg) , the church of the Königsberg garrison in Prussia .

He completed his habilitation in philosophy and literary history and was a private lecturer until 1851 , then an honorary professor at the philosophy faculty of Albertus University. He was committed to the German Progressive Party in his hometown and in Prussia .

Memorial stone for Julius Rupp at Koenigsberg Cathedral (photo from 2012).

On the pulpit, in his work Der Symbolzwang and the Protestant freedom of teaching and conscience (Königsberg 1843) and in essays in the Christian Volksblatt (Königsberg 1844) he represented free Protestantism . Because of public rejection of the Athanasian symbol he was removed from office in 1845 . On January 19, 1846, he founded a free Protestant congregation and subsequently made contact with like-minded Protestant friends in Saxony . The claim that is occasionally heard that he was the founder of the first free Protestant congregation in Germany is likely to be incorrect; because there were already communities in central Germany to which he made contact. In addition, the so-called independent community is inherent in the Protestant orientation of the Christian faith (including Waldensians , Anabaptists , Mennonites , Moravians , Quakers , Salvation Army , Adventists ; cf. in particular the Free Church ).

Rupp had a decisive influence on the movement of the friends of light and on the spread of free groups in Germany. Because of his publicly represented theological views and after his dismissal as pastor, he was socially shunned. The Königsberg Gustav-Adolf-Verein , of which he was a founding member and to which Johann Jacoby , a member of the Jewish community, also belonged, excluded him in 1846. But he continued to attend Jacoby's Thursday party.

Rupp took part in the German Revolution of 1848/1849 and appeared as a speaker in the Vormärz . In 1849 he was a member of the Prussian state parliament . He became a member of the Königsberg Committee for Independent Elections founded in 1859 and wrote its program together with Jacoby. Later he edited the constitution friend , the organ of the Association of constitution friends in Königsberg.

He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge Zum Todtenkopf and Phoenix , which came under closer government observation after 1848 due to its membership and had to withstand strong internal tensions.

Rupp was very productive in journalism. In addition to the works mentioned in the text and the works listed below, he published in the Free Evangelical Church (Altenburg 1848), the Königsberg Sunday Post (1856–1862) and the Religious Reform (1867–1876), which he owed most of the contributions .

A monument to Julius Rupp has stood next to Königsberg Cathedral since 1909, on the spot where the front garden of his house was. The relief attached to a large boulder was one of the earliest sculptural works by Rupp's granddaughter Käthe Kollwitz . The Berlin sculptor Harald Haacke reworked the relief, which was lost since the end of the war, based on old templates . Haacke's work was given to today's city of Kaliningrad as a foundation by the Ännchen von Tharau association in 1991 and attached to the stone. The following words by Julius Rupp can be read below the relief on this memorial stone:

Those who do not live by the truth they profess
are the most dangerous enemy of the truth itself

To the right of this is the Russian translation of these words in Cyrillic letters on a commemorative plaque.

Works

• De Spinozae Philosophia Practica. Assumto Ad Respondendum Socio Adolpho Benecke. Paschke, Königsberg 1832 (Königsberg, University, phil. Habilitation paper, 1832).
• Gregory's, the Bishop of Nyssa, life and opinions. Dyk Leipzig 1834.
• "Theodor von Hippel and his doctrine of the Christian state. Speech given on January 18, 1844 in the German Society in Königsberg," in: LiterarhistorischesTaschenbuch III. Ed. RE Prutz. CF Kius, Hanover 1845, 3-51.
• Christian sermons. Held by Julius Rupp in front of the free evangelical community in Königsberg. Kiewning & Krofs, Königsberg 1849.
• To correct the judgments about the closed free Evangelical community in Königsberg. Self-published, T. Theile in Commission, Königsberg 1852.
• From freedom. A testimony of the gospel. From the standpoint of Protestant dissidentism. 2 volumes. Self-published, Königsberg 1856.
• Immanuel Kant. On the character of his philosophy and its relation to the present. Koch, Königsberg 1857, digital version (PDF; 32 MB) .
• Sectarianism and the Free Church. Beyer, Königsberg 1859.
• On the importance of the Bible for historical progress. Longrien & Leupold, Königsberg 1880 (separate reprint from: Theodor Prengel (Hrsg.): Reformblätter, for the promotion of liberal development of religious life. No. 21 and 22, ZDB ID 1428998-2 ).
• Sermons. From the last years of his life. Edited from shorthand records. (Preface signed: L. Ulrich). Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1890.
• Rupp's literary estate along with news about his life. Edited by P. Schultzky. 3 parts (in 12 booklets each). Hübner & Matz, Königsberg 1890-1892.
• The Christian state. Reissued and supplemented from the papers he left behind. Published by Julius Rupp jun. and Lina Rupp. Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1892.
• Letters 1831–84. Edited by Lina Rupp. Evangelischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1907.
• Collected works in twelve volumes. Published by Paul Chr. Elsenhans. Diederichs et al., Jena et al. 1910–1916 (Vol. 8, Vol. 11, Teilbd. 2 and Vol. 12 has not appeared).

literature

• Walter Bredendiek: Peace on earth is once victory, rule certain - pioneers of the peace movement (III): Julius Rupp (1809–1884). In: Neue Zeit , May 17, 1975, p. 7.
• Max Friedrichs: Julius Rupp in his meaning as a religious genius. Speech on his centenary birthday on August 13, 1909. Eckardt, Leipzig 1909.
• Paul Konschel:  Rupp, Julius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 635-646.
• Julius Rupp: The proceedings of the Königsberg Consistory against the division preacher Dr. J. Rupp. With explanatory notes and enclosures. Holle, Wolfenbüttel 1846.
• Caspar Erich Schieler : Dr. Julius Rupp, former private lecturer, senior teacher and division preacher at Königsberg i. Pr. And the free religious movement in the Catholic and Protestant Church in Germany in the 19th century. A contribution to the church history of the 19th century. E. Pierson, Dresden et al. 1903.
• Edmund Silberner : Johann Jacoby. Politician and man. Verlag Neue Gesellschaft, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1976, ISBN 3-87831-213-X .
• Karl Reinhold Jachmann: On the history of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein in Königsberg. Voigt, Königsberg 1844.
• Königlich Preußische Staats-, Kriegs- und Friedens-Zeitung. 1844, No. 14, 18, 23, 29-32, 35, 38, 40, 42, 75, ZDB ID 94121-9 .
• Alf Christophersen:  Rupp, Julius Friedrich Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 278 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Works by and about Julius Rupp  in the German Digital Library
• better picture of the memorial stone
• ( Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels ): The debate about the poster law . In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung . No. 279 of April 22, 1849. Second edition. Digitized copy of the Marx-Engels works . Volume 6, p. 434 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Glaue: Art. Rupp, Julius . In: The religion in past and present , 1st edition, vol. 5: Roh – Zypressen , Tübingen 1913, col. 66.
2. ↑ Lit .: Silberner, p. 71
3. ^ Lit .: Jachmann
4. ↑ Lit .: Silberner, p. 127 ff.
5. ↑ Lit .: Silberner, p. 174 f.
6. ↑ Lit .: Silberner, p. 283 f.
7. ↑ Lit .: Silberner, p. 316
8. ↑ Joachim Herrmann (ed.): Festschrift 240. Foundation festival of the Johannisloge "Zum Todtenkopf und Phönix". Johannisloge "Zum Todtenkopf und Phönix", Berlin 2011, p. 32, digitized version (PDF; 1.81 MB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .