Karl Rudolf Seyerlen

Karl Rudolf Seyerlen (born November 18, 1831 in Stuttgart , † March 28, 1906 in Jena ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Karl Rudolf was the son of the teacher and later high school professor in Stuttgart Johannes Seyerlen (1801-1875) and his wife Beate Weigle. After attending the Illustre grammar school in Stuttgart , he began studying theological and philosophical sciences at the University of Tübingen in 1849 . It was here that Ferdinand Christian Baur in particular became his formative teacher. After he had finished his studies, he worked from 1854 as a vicar in Giengen an der Brenz . In March 1855 he received his doctorate in philosophy in Tübingen and then went on a scientific trip to Paris . Here he discovered the Fons Vitae of Solomon ibn Gabirol and set - back to Germany -. The philosophy of this Judeo-Spanish thinker for the first time source terms in a separate essay represents Since 1859 he had a job as Repentent the evangelical pen in Tübingen preserved and 1862 Deacon in Crailsheim .

In 1869 he moved to Tübingen in the same position, where he was promoted to archdeacon in 1872. After receiving his theological doctorate, he became a full professor of practical and systematic theology at the University of Jena in the winter semester of 1875 and, associated with this, director of the homiletic and didactic catechetical seminar. He also participated in the organizational tasks of the Salana and was rector of the Alma Mater in the summer semesters of 1880 and 1899 . He was appointed to the secret church council and was co-editor of the magazine for practical theology from 1879 to 1891 . He also wrote articles in the scientific journals and journals of his time. For example about his former teacher Baur in the journal for scientific theology . He retired on April 1, 1903 for health reasons and died three years later.

Seyerlen had married Agnes Ostertag on June 12, 1862. Children also seem to have come from marriage.

Works (selection)

• Origin and First Fates of the Christian Community in Rome: A Church History Monograph. Tübingen 1874 ( online )
• Sermon for the Sedan celebration. 1874
• Significance and task of the sermon of the present. Tuebingen 1876
• Speech in memory of Emperor Friedrich. 1888
• Friedrich Rohmer's life and scientific development based on Bluntschli's drafts. 1892
• The mutual relations between occidental and oriental science with special regard to Solomon ibn Gebirol and its philosophical meaning. Speech. (Popular scientific lectures on Jews and Judaism, II / III). Munich 1900

Editorships

• Johann Kaspar Buntschli, Memories from my life. Nördlingen 1884, 3rd vol.
• Friedrich Rohmer's Science of Man. On the basis of oral transmission and written records. Munich 1892, 2nd vol.

literature

• D. Rudolf Seyerlen †. In: Adolf Hilgenfeld: Journal for Scientific Theology. Reisland, Leipzig, 1906, vol. 49, new year 14 vol., Pp. 287/288
• Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, Richard Zöpffel: Lexicon for theology and church affairs . Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig, 1882, p. 642,
• Karl Heinrich Meusel, B. Lehmann, Ernst Haack, A. Hofstätter: Kirchliches Handlexikon. Justus Naumann, Leipzig, 1900, vol. 6, p. 224
• Hermann A. Ludwig Degener: Who is it? Our contemporaries. Contemporary Lexicon. Degner, Leipzig, 1906, p. 1117