Karl August Schapper

Karl August Schapper (born January 6, 1815 in Niederkleen near Wetzlar , † August 20, 1898 in Wernigerode ) was a Protestant theologian and seminary director .

Life

Karl August Schapper was born the son of a pastor. Up to the age of 14 he received lessons from his father and then attended the royal high school in Wetzlar until his Abitur in 1833 . After studying theology in Gießen , Halle and Bonn , he passed his theological exams in Bonn (1837) and at the Consistory of the Rhine Province in Koblenz (1838), in order to then attend the seminary in Wittenberg for practical theological training .

In 1842, after his ordination , Schapper was assigned a post of assistant preacher in Waldböckelheim an der Nahe , from which he changed to the pastor's post in Münster am Stein in 1845 . In 1851 he took over the pastor's position in Kleinrechtebach , the home of his wife.

Schapper then became a politician for a few years: the Upper President of the Rhine Province , Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow , appointed him to the government and school council in Koblenz in 1857 .

But Schapper was too much of a theologian, and so in 1860 the appointment to Wittenberg as pastor of the town church , superintendent of the Wittenberg parish and director of the royal seminary was more than convenient. He moved with his children to the Bugenhagenhaus, took on the ephoral church leadership tasks , but devoted himself much more to the young theologians and prospective pastors of the seminary, as its professor, he mainly taught the exegetical subjects and practical theology. On October 31, 1865 it the Theological Faculty of the awarded University of Halle-Wittenberg , the honorary doctorate .

For health reasons, Schapper was transferred to Groß Rosenburg near Calbe as superintendent in 1866 , where he held office until his retirement in 1892. This year, on the occasion of his 50th anniversary of ordination, he received the Royal Order of the Crown, 2nd class.

Karl August Schapper died in his retirement home in the Harz Mountains.

Others

• Karl August Schapper was married to the pastor's daughter Amalie Weinrich from Kleinrechtebach near Wetzlar since 1842 . They had six children together, whom the father looked after alone after the early death of their mother in 1856.
• Karl August Schapper is
  • a cousin of the Nassau revolutionary and labor leader Karl Schapper (1812–1870)
  • the father of the composer Mina Koch (1845–1924)
  • the grandfather of the Nazi resistance fighter Karl Schapper (1879–1941) and the provost of the Altmark Helmut Schapper (1891–1976)
  • the great uncle of the Nazi victim Elisabeth Müller (1875–1945)

literature

• Karl August Schapper: CV of Karl August Schapper 1836 at the request of the king. Consistoriums to Coblenz written . Translated from the Latin by Eduard Weber (manuscript)
• D. Schapper † , in: Kreuzzeitung , Supplement No. 419 of September 8, 1898
• Honorary doctorate KA Schapper 1865 from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the University Archives Halle-Wittenberg
• Art .: Schapper , in: Bonnet, Rudolf (ed.), Nassovica. Building blocks on the Nassau family and local history , issue 1, 1930
• Theodor Schapper: A walk through the history of the Schapper family , 1892/1918 (manuscript)
• Albert Rosenkranz (Ed.): The Evangelical Rhineland. A Rhenish parish and pastor's book , vol. 1, Düsseldorf, 1956; Vol. 2, Düsseldorf, 1958
• Otto Dibelius : The royal seminary to Wittenberg 1817-1917 , Berlin. no year