Karl Ludwig Droysen

Carl Ludwig Droysen, memorial image in the St. Mary's Church (Bergen)

Karl Ludwig Droysen , also Carl Ludwig Droysen (born July 18, 1756 in Grimmen , † January 20, 1831 in Bergen on Rügen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and writer.

Life

Karl Ludwig Droysen was the son of the mayor of Grimmer Karl Abraham Droysen (1730–1763). After the father's death, the mother took care of him and his two siblings alone. Despite little fortune, she managed to send Karl Ludwig to the gymnasium in Stralsund after attending the city school in 1769 . There, his uncle Friedrich Bernhard Droysen, the pastor helped him Altefähr was where he for him, among other free tables organized (free food).

Droysen's grave cross in the old cemetery in Bergen

In 1774 he enrolled at the University of Greifswald . He earned his living through the Droysensche and Wakenitz scholarships , a legacy of 100 thalers from a citizen of Grimmer, and academic free meals. After studying philosophy and theology until 1778, he worked as a tutor to his uncle in Altefähr for two years. From 1780 to 1781 he studied at the University of Halle . There he preferred to listen to Exegetica and Practica . After his return to Swedish Pomerania , he took a position as a tutor at the prepositus Hermann Andreas Pistorius in Poseritz for two years . There he became acquainted with the prepositus Michael Nestius from Bergen on Rügen , who offered him the diaconate at St. Mary's Church . After an exam in Greifswald and on the recommendation of Nestius and the bailiff Carl Gustav von Wolffradt , he was introduced to his office in 1783 with a royal Swedish power of attorney. After Nestius' death in 1794, he took over his preposition, which was called the provost's office from 1806 and, after the transition to Prussia, from 1818 as superintendent's office . In recognition of his published theological and pedagogical writings, he was in 1817 by the University of Greifswald to the doctor of theology doctorate . He died in 1831 in his 48th year in office and was buried with great sympathy among the population. His grave in the old cemetery in Bergen on Rügen has been preserved to this day.

family

Karl Ludwig Droysen was married to the second daughter of Michael Nestius. Two of three sons died of smallpox . The unmarried daughter Gottlieb Luise Maria Droysen (* 1798) and the son Karl Friedrich Droysen (* 1790), who was school principal in Bergen from 1818, survived the father. From 1822, the later physiologist Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819-1892) grew up in Karl Ludwig Droysen's house. After the death of his mother, he found family acceptance in Stralsund as a half-orphan.

Fonts (selection)

• About the way of teaching the youth in the Christian religion. 3rd edition, 3 parts, Leipzig 1800–1805 (1st edition in the 1790s).
  • Part 2: Elementary book of Christian teaching for beginners. Leipzig 1800.
  • How can and should one help young people to become true Christians? An Appendix to Scripture: The Best Way to Teach the Youth in the Christian Religion. Gräff, Leipzig 1802.
• Analysis of the small Lutheran and Schlegel catechisms. Stralsund 1806.
• Three sermons of jubilation in memory of Luther and the church improvement that he began. Greifswald 1818.

literature

• New necrology of the Germans. 9th year, part 1, Voigt, Ilmenau 1833, pp. 76–78 ( Google books ).
• Droysen, Carl Ludwig . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 106.
• Stephan Sehlke: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten: Biographical manual on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945 , BOD, 2009, ISBN 3837094979 , p. 87 ( Google books ).

Web links

• Literature about Karl Ludwig Droysen in the state bibliography MV