Karl Theodor Albert Liebner

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Karl Theodor Albert Liebner (born March 3, 1806 in Schkölen , † June 24, 1871 in Meran ) was a German Lutheran theologian, philologist and historian.

Life

Karl Theodor Albert Liebner was born in 1806 as the son of the Schkölener deacon Christian Thomas Liebner and his mother Sophie Amalie (born Härtel 1784–1811). He initially received a solid education in his parents' house and from 1819 attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . In 1823 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig , where he studied philology and theology. After he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1827 and had passed his first theological exam in Magdeburg, he went to the University of Berlin , where he attended lectures by Friedrich Schleiermacher , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , August Neander and Philipp Konrad Marheineke, among others .

In 1828 he went to the seminary in Wittenberg , where he was intensively prepared for his ministry in Kreisfeld by Heinrich Leonhard Heubner, among others , and took up this position in 1832 after his marriage to Julie, the daughter of Wittenberg mayor Karl Gottfried Giese. In 1835 he went as an associate professor at the University of Göttingen , where he worked as a university preacher. Further appointments followed in 1844 as full professor in Kiel and in 1851 in Leipzig , where, among other things, he co-founded the “Yearbooks for German Theology”. In August 1855 he took the position of senior court preacher and vice-president of the state consortium in Dresden as the successor to Adolf Harless .

In this role he shaped the Saxon regional church by reducing the internal church tensions that Lutheran Orthodoxy had caused in the regional church. In doing so, he endeavored to balance differences and to promote the process of Christian knowledge. This work brought profound organizational changes in the church life in Saxony . The beginning of the general church visitation carried out in 1856, the founding of the Predigerkolleg St. Pauli in Leipzig in 1862, the superintendent's instructions published in 1862, the church council and synodal regulations published in 1868 and the first ordinary synod of the Kingdom of Saxony in 1871 go back to Liebner.

In the scientific field, he worked on the history of medieval mysticism and dealt with systematic practical theology. In addition, the work Hugo von St. Victor and the theological directions of his time appeared in Wittenberg in 1832 . It reflects his theological context, from which he tried to research the Christian religion speculatively, historically and thoughtfully, using scientific methods to present the way in which the church works. Building on Schleiermacher's foundations, Liebner saw in theology the fundamental principle of a system of Christian doctrine, the starting point of which resulted from scientific and speculative thought and thus brought about a connection between traditional thinking and the contemporary novelty of his time.

Fonts

  • On Gerson's Mystical Theology , 1835
  • Practical Theology , 1843
  • Richardi a. S. Victore de contemplatione doctrine , 1837
  • The essence of the church visitation 1857
  • The state of Christian knowledge in the German Protestant Church and the tasks of the church regiment in relation to the same 1860
  • Bibliography of Saxon History

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predecessor Office successor
Adolf Harless Court preacher in Dresden
1855–1873 		Ernst Volkmar Kohlschütter
personal data
SURNAME Liebner, Karl Theodor Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Liebner, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, philologist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Schkölen
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1871
Place of death Meran