Leonhard Usteri

Leonhard Usteri (born October 22, 1799 in Zurich ; † September 18, 1833 in Bern ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and rector of the Zurich high school.

Leonhard Usteri was the son of the Zurich professor of the Hebrew language and canon Leonhard Usteri (1769–1853) and the grandson of the theologian and educator Leonhard Usteri (1741–1789).

After completing his basic training in Zurich, he studied theology there and was ordained a pastor. However, he did not take a position, but moved to Berlin in 1820, where he became a student of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher . In 1823 he returned to Zurich and became professor and rector of the grammar school.

Works

• Development of the Pauline concept of teaching in its relationship to the biblical dogmatics of the New Testament. An exegetical-dogmatic attempt . Zurich 1824
• Plutarchu Paramythētikos pros Apollōnion = Plutarchi Consolatio ad Apollonium / Recognovit et commentariis illustravit Leonardus Usterius . Zurich 1830
• Fri. Aug. Wolf's lectures on the first four chants of Homer's Jliad . Bern 1831
• Commentary on Pauli's letter to the Galatians. In addition to a supplement in relation to Hermann's program de Pauli epistola ad Galatas tribus primis capitibus, and some excursions . Zurich 1833
• Commentatio Critica In Qua Evangelium Joannis Genuinum Esse Ex Comparatis IV. Evangeliorum Narrationibus De Coena Ultima Et Passione Jesu Christi Ostenditur. Subjunctum Est Joannis Philoponi Opusculum De Paschate Pluraque Veterum Scriptorum Fragmenta . Zurich 1823

literature

• Paul Tschackert :  Usteri, Leonhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 397 f.
• Klaus-Gunther Wesseling:  Usteri, Leonhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 986-987.
• Christian Moser: Leonhard Usteri. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .