Karl Gottfried Bauer

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Karl Gottfried Bauer (* August 24, 1765 in Leipzig as Carl Gottfried Bauer ; † December 15, 1842 there ) was a German Protestant theologian and preacher .

Life

The son from the second marriage of Leipzig law professor Heinrich Gottfried Bauer attended the Fürstenschule Grimma and the Nicolaigymnasium in Leipzig. From 1781 he studied at the university there alongside Protestant theology , philosophy , mathematics and medicine . After his promotion in 1786 to the doctor of philosophy he studied next to this specialist classical philology and archeology . Initially he planned to go to Göttingen and teach philosophy there.

In the same year, Bauer became pastor at Frohburg , although he had never aspired to such an office and had no experience in preaching. In 1809 he went to the Nikolaikirche as archdeacon . After he also received the degree of a baccalaureus , he received his doctorate on August 24, 1810 as a doctor of Protestant theology. His dissertation was called De Caussis quibus nititur rectum super regni coelorum notione in NT passim obvia judicium .

In 1836 Bauer celebrated his 50th anniversary as a doctor and preacher, on the occasion of which he received the Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Civil Merit. At the Nikolaikirche he was promoted to pastor in 1837, while also lecturing at the university. He died in 1842 at the age of 77.

family

Bauer was married twice. His first marriage was with a born Gleditzsch. With this he fathered seven children, three of whom died by 1844. The other four are two unmarried daughters as well as a Leipzig portrait painter and a lawyer from Rossen . In 1824 Bauer married a née Rain, who had no children for him and who finally survived him.

Act

Bauer wrote works on pedagogy and biography. Mainly, however, he was known for his sermons, some of which he edited as an anthology. Clemens Brockhaus judges them: "These sermons testify to a serious and strict working through, but without shining through rhetorical power and rising above the level of homiletic taste of the time."

Works

  • Sermons on feast days and days of penance, the same on other subjects of practical Christianity (1790)
  • On the means of giving the sex drive a harmless direction (1791)
  • Homilies and Sermons (1795)
  • Philosophical experiments on subjects of morality and pedagogy (1797)
  • Sermons on the Sunday and Festival Gospels (1798)
  • Notes on the deaf and mute on Kant's anthropology (1799)

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personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Karl Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Carl Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and preacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1765
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1842
Place of death Leipzig