Karl Heinrich Sack

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Karl Heinrich Sack

Karl Heinrich Sack (born November 17, 1789 in Berlin , † October 16, 1875 in Poppelsdorf near Bonn ) was a Protestant German theologian.

Life

His parents were the court preacher and later Bishop Friedrich Samuel Gottfried Sack and Johanna geb. Spalding (daughter of the Berlin provost Johann Joachim Spalding ; 1714–1804).

In 1805 he and his brother Friedrich Ferdinand Adolf began their studies at the University of Göttingen . While his brother was studying theology, Karl Heinrich decided to study law; In view of his doubts about faith, he considered himself unworthy to study theology. In 1810 he returned to Berlin, where Friedrich Schleiermacher made a great impression on him. In 1813 and 1815 he went to war as a volunteer. Then he joined the Berlin Cathedral Candidate Foundation . He received a scholarship to travel through Germany, Holland and England. He then completed his habilitation at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and became a private lecturer in theology.

In 1818 he became theological professor in Bonn and, from 1819, at the same time pastor in the newly founded Protestant community there, with his wife supporting him from 1823. In 1819 he brought out the small text Idea and Draft of Christian Apologetics , with which he announced the apologetic lectures to be held in the winter of 1819/20 . He was friends with Karl Immanuel Nitzsch , who had been called to Bonn, and Friedrich Lücke , who stayed in Bonn from 1816 to 1827. Like the two of them, Sack was one of the representatives of mediation theology . In 1823, Sack married Bertha Carolina Franziska Jacobi (1804–1874), a daughter of the medical councilor and psychiatrist Maximilian Jacobi and granddaughter of the philosopher Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi .

After Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Delbrück had denied the usefulness of the Holy Scriptures as the basis of the Protestant Church, he published three theological letters to Dr. Delbruck . In 1829 he brought out an attempt at a handbook of Christian apologetics as the basis for his lectures . An inherited tendency to melancholy was joined by the opinion that he was not fulfilling the duties of his dual office, whereupon he gave up the pastor's position in 1834 in order to be able to devote himself more to scientific work.

In 1838 he published his second important work on Christian polemics in Hamburg . In 1841 he brought out a new edition of his Christian Apologetics . Like Schleiermacher, he differentiates between apologetics and apology as theory and practice.

He received the early 1840s at the behest of his brother, the Minister of Culture Johann Albrecht Friedrich von Eichhorn , commissioned to travel to Scotland and the history and the nature of the Presbyterian constitution of the Scottish Church, in particular the development and design of the Free Church of Scotland to explore. About this he wrote The Church in Scotland (Heidelberg 1844) and later an essay on the external conditions of the free church in Scotland (German magazine by DKF Th. Schneider, 1857, No. 3). As a member of the general synod of the regional church in Prussia in 1846 , he campaigned for a presbyterial-synodal church constitution based on the Rhenish-Westphalian church order and for the clarification of the foundations of the Prussian Union . In 1847 he became consistorial councilor in Magdeburg . In 1860 he retired and worked as an honorary professor in Berlin until 1862, but then returned to the Rhineland.

Sack was married since 1823 to Bertha Carolina Franziska (1804-1874), born Jacobi, a daughter of the medical councilor and psychiatrist Maximilian Jacobi (1775-1858).

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SURNAME Sack, Karl Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1875
Place of death Poppelsdorf near Bonn