Carl Friedrich Goeschel
Carl Friedrich Göschel (born October 7, 1781 in Langensalza , † September 22, 1861 in Naumburg (Saale) ) was a Prussian church lawyer and philosophical-theological writer of the Hegelian school .
Live and act
Göschel studied law in Leipzig and from 1819 worked as a colleague and probably also like fellow Ernst Ludwig von Gerlachs at the Naumburg Higher Regional Court. There he had contacts with pietistic circles who shaped him permanently. In 1834 he was appointed to the Prussian Ministry of Justice in Berlin, where he worked particularly in church matters. He was later appointed President of the Consistory of the Church Province of Saxony . Until his death he worked for the Protestant regional church in the denominational Lutheran sense, for example as chairman of the Lutheran Central Association. Personally an opponent of the separation of the Lutheran congregations from the Uniate regional church, he paved the way for the state recognition of the old Lutherans in Prussia in 1845. On the other hand, he operated the suppression of the movement of the friends of light with such severity that he was forced to resign in the course of the March events in 1848 .
Although neither theologian nor the philosopher by profession and not personally known to Hegel, Göschel became important for determining the relationship between the Hegelian system and the doctrine of the Church. His anonymously published work About Goethe's Faust and its continuation (Leipzig 1824) already proved his fondness for Hegel. The aphorisms about ignorance and absolute knowledge (Berlin 1829) sought to show the correspondence between Hegel's philosophy and Christian belief. Hegel himself wrote an appreciative review that made Göschel a spokesman for the old Hegelians for several years .
Fonts
After Hegel's death, Goeschel formed the school's extreme right in the scriptures:
- The monism of thought (Naumburg 1832);
- Hegel and his time, with regard to Goethe (Berlin 1832);
- From Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Naumburg 1834). And
- Conversations on the description of Goethean poetry and thinking (Schleusingen 1834–38, 3 vols.),
which is supposed to prove that Goethe preached the Gospel in his language.
For personal immortality he vigorously took sides in the scriptures:
- From the evidence for the immortality of the human soul (Berlin 1835) and
- The sevenfold Easter question (Berlin 1836).
Religious tendencies also permeate his juridical writings:
- Scattered sheets of paper from the hand and auxiliary files of a lawyer . (Erfurt and Schleusing. 1835–42, 3 vols.);
- The oath according to its principle, concept and usage (Berlin 1837) and
- The particular right in relation to common law and the legal pantheism (Berlins. 1837).
His contributions to the speculative philosophy of God, man and God-man (Berlin 1838) are directed against David Friedrich Strauss .
Of his other writings the following should also be emphasized:
- Chronicle of the city of Langensalza (Langensalza 1818–42, 3 vols.)
- Secular memories of the year 1848 (Magdeburg 1848)
- Dante Alighieri's Easter celebration in the twin stars (Hall 1849)
- The concord formula according to its history, doctrine and ecclesiastical significance (Leipzig 1858) and
- Lectures and studies on Dante (Berlin 1863).
Recent reprints
- Volume 1 - Chronicle of the city of Langensalza up to 1346 , Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza, Reprint 1818/2000/2007, ISBN 978-3-86777-000-2
- Volume 2 - Chronicle of the City of Langensalza 1346-1618 , Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza, Reprint 1818/2007, ISBN 978-3-86777-001-9
- Volume 3 - Chronicle of the City of Langensalza 1618-1711 , Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, Reprint 1842/2002/2007, ISBN 978-3-86777-002-6
- Volume 4 - Chronicle of the city of Langensalza 1711-1813 , Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, Reprint 1846/2002/2007, ISBN 978-3-86777-003-3
- Volume 5 - Chronicle of the City of Langensalza 1813-1819 , Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza, Reprint 2007, ISBN 978-3-86777-004-0
- The Wartburg. Old and new from history and life , Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza, Reprint 1826/2001, ISBN 3-936030-09-X
literature
- Heinrich Eduard Schmieder: Karl Friedrich Göschel, Dr. jur., former President of the Consistory of the Province of Saxony . Berlin: Schlawitz, 1863 (Evangelical church newspaper).
- Arndt Haubold: Karl Friedrich Göschel (1784–1861) , Luther Verlag, Bielefeld 1988, ISBN 3-7858-0318-4
- Jürgen Gebhardt: Göschel, Karl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 540 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Herrmann Müller: Göschel, Karl Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 397 f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Friedrich Göschel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Carl Friedrich Göschel in the German Digital Library
- Carl Friedrich Göschel in the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Göschel, Carl Friedrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Göschel, Karl Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian church lawyer and philosophical-theological writer of the Hegelian school |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1781 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Langensalza |
DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1861 |
Place of death | Naumburg (Saale) |