Karl Scheele (theologian)

Karl Scheele , also Carl Scheele , (born May 31, 1810 in Magdeburg , † March 24, 1871 in Wernigerode ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and teacher .

Life

Family and education

Karl Scheele was born as the son of Pastor Friedrich August Scheele . His father was initially a pastor at the Sankt-Petri-Kirche in Magdeburg, but was transferred to Calbe an der Saale as pastor and superintendent in 1819 . His younger sister Marie Nathusius became an eminent writer.

Scheele attended the monastery school and later the cathedral high school in Magdeburg. In 1829 he began studying theology at Halle University . One of his professors was August Tholuck , who strongly influenced him with his ideas. Scheele continued his studies in 1832 at the University of Berlin , now with Friedrich Schleiermacher , to whom he was also personally close.

Professional background

After completing his studies, Scheele went to the monastery school in Magdeburg as a teacher, as several sons from friendly families were entrusted to him to look after. His sister Marie ran the household for him and raised the foster children. As early as 1836 he was given a parish office, first in Eickendorf and Zens near Calbe, six years later in Schönebeck on the Elbe and in 1846 in Eggersdorf . At the Bremen Kirchentag in 1852 he met Immanuel Friedrich Sander and, on his recommendation, was elected to the fourth parish of the Lutheran parish in Elberfeld that same year . As early as 1855, however, he moved to the pastoral position at the church in Glaucha near Halle .

But just a year later, the Prussian minister of culture, Karl Otto von Raumer , called him to Magdeburg. The minister's intention was to prepare young theologians for higher education at the grammar schools so that they could then take over the teaching positions. To this end, an institution should be founded, which should cooperate with the church-sponsored grammar school for the monastery of our dear women in Magdeburg. The director of this facility should also be the pastor of the grammar school and teach as a religion teacher. Scheele has now been appointed to this position with the title and rank of professor .

In the long run, Scheele was unable to cope with the heavy workload. His health deteriorated from year to year. Even in his ecclesiastical position, Scheele was one of the most convincing representatives of the denominational Lutheran direction, he did not find the desired understanding from Raumer's successors in the Ministry of Culture. He retired in 1864 and moved to Wernigerode, where he wrote numerous writings in the following years.

Karl Scheele died on March 24, 1871, at the age of 60, in Wernigerode.

literature

Particularly noteworthy of his theological works are the titles The educated theologian, a cultural-historical consideration , published in 1864 and The drunken science and its legacy to the Protestant Church of 1867, as well as Prussia's ecclesiastical profession for Germany and its new principle of union according to Dr. Dorner from 1868.

As early as 1852 his lecture The Church discipline of the Protestant Church appeared and in 1857 his treatise on Plato and Johann Arnd . In 1861 he published a small volume of poems entitled Home .

Publications (selection)

• For and against Prussia. A request for peace in response to Hanoverian votes. Berlin 1869.
• Prussia's ecclesiastical profession for Germany and its new principle of union according to D. Dorner. Berlin 1868.
• Drunken science and its legacy to the Evangelical Church. A contribution to the judgment of modern theology. Berlin 1867.
• The educated theologian. A cultural-historical consideration. Magdeburg 1864.
• Plato and Johann Arnd. A lecture given in 1857. Berlin 1857.
• The Apocrypha and the Wupperthal Bible Society. Barmen 1855.
• Domestic rights in the Protestant Church. Falckenberg 1847.
• Hero Luther. A song to commemorate February 18th in Wittenberg. Magdeburg 1846.

literature

• Gerhard Besier : Prussian church policy in the Bismarck era (= Historical Commission in Berlin [Hrsg.]: Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin . Volume 49 ). 1st edition. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007176-6  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 130-132 .
• Franz Brümmer :  Scheele, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 666 f.
• Otto Kraus (Ed.): Spiritual songs in the nineteenth century. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1879, page 423 ff.

Web links

• Entry on Karl Scheele in Kalliope
• Entry about Scheele, Karl in CERL Thesaurus
• Writings by Karl Scheele in the Index theologicus