Carl Christian von Flatt

Carl Christian Flatt , from 1823 von Flatt (born August 18, 1772 in Stuttgart , Duchy of Württemberg ; † November 20, 1843 in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg ), was a Protestant theologian and philosopher , like his older brother Johann Friedrich Flatt .

Life

Flatt studied philosophy and theology in Tübingen and Göttingen . However, he did not become a professor in Göttingen, where he studied the teachings of Immanuel Kant in particular , but became a deacon in Cannstatt in 1803 and, from 1804, a professor of dogmatics in Tübingen, succeeding the like-minded Friedrich Gottlieb Süskind . In 1812 he left Tübingen and became a preacher of the Stuttgart Prelature (until 1823) and also senior consistorial councilor . From 1828 to 1842 he was also general superintendent of the Ulm Prelature , and in 1829 also director of the senior university council.

Like his older brother Johann Friedrich, Carl Christian Flatt was, along with Süskind, one of the main representatives of the biblically founded rational supranaturalism of the older Tübingen school. He translated the "Textbook of Christian Dogmatics" of his teacher Gottlob Christian Storr into German and provided it with additions from his other writings and the works of other theologians. He opposed the spread of Hegel's philosophy and the entry of Ferdinand Christian Baur's theology into the Tübingen faculty in vain. His official assessment of the first volume of the sensational work "The Life of Jesus, Critically Edited" by David Friedrich Strauss , published in 1835, resulted in Strauss being dismissed from his position as a repetitee at the Tübingen monastery.

As General Superintendent of Ulm, Karl Christian von Flatt was the representative of the Protestant regional church in the Württemberg Land estates in the periods 1825 to 1831 , 1833 , 1833 to 1838 and 1838 to 1844 .

Honors, ennobling

Karl Christian Flatt was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown in 1823 , which was associated with the personal title of nobility. In 1838 he received the commentary cross.

Works

• Main author of the Württemberg Spruchbuch from 1839
• Philosophical-exegetical studies on the doctrine of the reconciliation of people with God , 1st part, Göttingen 1797; 2. TI., Stuttgart 1798 (in it Flatt represented a Pelagian doctrine of reconciliation determined by Kant, which he later withdrew); translated: Gottlob Christian Storr, Textbook of Christian Dogmatics, 1803 (18132); Morning and evening prayers for every day of the year, 1821.

• Albrecht Ritschl: The Christian doctrine of justification and reconciliation I, (1870) 18893, 471 ff .; - NDB V, 224 f .; - RE XX, 156; - RGG II, 972 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1839, p. 30.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Flatt, Carl Christian. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 49-50.
• Julius Hartmann:  Karl Christian Flatt . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 103.
• Eberhard H. Pältz:  Flatt, Karl Christian von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 224 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Werner Raupp : Flatt, Karl Christian . In: Religion in Past and Present (RGG), 4th edition, Vol. 3, 2000, Col. 153.
• Werner Raupp : Flatt, Karl Christian (1772-1843) . In: Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn (Ed.): Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers . Volume 1. London / New York 2010, pp. 334-335.