Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier

Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier

Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier (born May 7, 1735 in Prenzlau , † October 1, 1792 in Gießen ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier was the son of the plumber Christoph Benjamin Ouvrier and his wife, a née Wellin. Having trained in Prenzlau, he dealt particularly with the older languages . In 1753 he moved to the University of Halle . There he studied philosophy with Johann Joachim Lange , Andreas Weber and others, theology with Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten , Johann Georg Knapp , Christian Benedikt Michaelis , Johann Salomo Semler , Adam Struensee and Gottlieb Anastasius Freylinghausen .

Ouvrier could not study long because his parents could not support him any further. After completing his studies he became a private tutor in Feldberg , after which he returned to Prenzlau in this position.

Because of his poor health, Ouvrier decided to travel to Rackschütz in the summer of 1757 . His uncle Johann Gottlieb Ouvrier lived there, whom he helped with his ministry and also taught his children. The uncle died as early as 1758 and Ouvrier hoped he would get his preaching position. But this did not happen, instead he was called to a secondary school in Berlin to teach there.

In 1760 Ouvrier was sent to the Darmstädtischer Hof in Pirmasens , where he was tutor of the later Landgrave Ludwig IX. has been. Three years later he was appointed cabinet preacher, in 1767 he was promoted to Darmstadt court preacher and finally in 1770 to assessor of the consistory . From 1772 he also held the post of third superintendent , consistorial councilor and preacher in the castle and garrison .

Even in 1772 Ouvrier ordinary theology was professor at the University of Giessen . In that year he also married Marie Friederike Milkenberg, daughter of the Darmstadt privy councilor Wilhelm Adolph Milkenberg. The marriage had several children. A son Ludwig (born 1791) is known by name. In Gießen he was appointed doctor of theology in 1777 after defending an inaugural dissertation entitled de necessitate satisfactionis a Paulo Rome. 8, 3 asserta . In 1786 he became second superintendent, shortly afterwards also second professor of theology.

In 1792, Ouvrier died at the age of 57 from the effects of an internal inflammation that he contracted from a cold.

ancestry

Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching and Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder outlined Ouvrier's descent, as they considered it to be noteworthy. He starts with Peter Ouvrier, an Alsatian Franciscan who became a Lutheran and went to Wittenberg as a master's degree , then was a preacher near Frankfurt an der Oder and then in Elster , where he died in 1671. Peter Ouvrier was married to the daughter of a baker from Wittenberg. This marriage came from a mastermind living in Prenzlau . Peter Ouvrier also fathered the father of Christoph Benjamin Ouvrier and Johann Gottlieb Ouvrier. The latter was a Lutheran preacher and died in Rackschütz on December 21, 1757, while Christoph Benjamin lived as a plumber in Prenzlau, where he married a born Wellin and fathered Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier.

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Peter Ouvrier, theologian, † 1671

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N. Ouvrier, Prenzlauer mastermind

Johann Gottlieb Ouvrier, Lutheran preacher, † December 21, 1757

Christoph Benjamin Ouvrier, plumber in Prenzlau

N. Ouvrier, nee Wellin

Wilhelm Adolph Milkenberg, privy councilor in Darmstadt

Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier (1735–1792)

Marie Friederike Milkenberg, married in 1772

Unknown children

Act

Bernhard Bonkhoff assigns Ouvrier to rationalism . With liturgical work, the draft of a hymn book and a religious textbook, he promoted the abolition of Luther's Little Catechism and the old Protestant songs.

Ouvrier was considered a religious person who worked full of zeal and stood up for morality. As early as 1767 he published a collection of sermons in which he wanted to achieve the moral ennoblement of the heart .

Heinrich Döring certified that Ouvrier had a good knowledge of ancient languages ​​and other theological disciplines, which was shown in programs and dissertations. In these writings he dealt particularly with dogmatics , exegesis and criticism of the New Testament .

In 1773, as a result of theological disputes, Ouvrier tried to test the dogmas of Christianity impartially. Four years later he wrote instructions for preachers and catechists. His two-volume history of religions , which was particularly important in historical studies , also appeared in 1781 and 1783 .

Another work by Ouvrier was entitled Regards to Eternity , in which he wanted to convince that there is life after death. This text appeared in two parts in 1791. The first part addresses the comforting healthy living, the second part the sick and dying. The work also contains songs. In 1793 a second edition appeared, in which Carl von Senkenberg added a biography of Ouvrier.

Self-examination and pious resolutions, self-talk is a book of edification . It is divided into two sections, the first dealing with self-examination, the second dealing with pious resolutions . The first section contains 50, the second 26 considerations. These are rather short, so that the individual considerations are not detailed. The book was described in the Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek as good and useful, [...] not exaggerated .

Works

• The joy in the Lord at the birth of Prince Christian Ludwig of Hesse; a thanksgiving sermon on Psalm 148, 12-14 (Pirmasens 1763)
• Daily morning and evening business; designed for the benefit of a distinguished youth (Frankfurt / Leipzig 1764)
• Collection of some sermons (Frankfurt am Main 1767)
• The creed postulated by the high-ranking Princess Friederika Angelika, Landgrave of Hesse, dean of Quedlinburg on September 7, 1767; with a speech by Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier (Darmstadt / Frankfurt 1767)
• Blessing speech at the wedding of Princess Friederike of Hesse to the Prince of Prussia (Darmstadt 1769)
• Confession of Faith, Sr. Trans. Of the Hereditary Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, which he made publicly on February 22, 1769, together with the speech he gave (Berlin 1771)
• The Darmstadt Hymnal (Darmstadt 1772)
• Investigation into the tenets of Christianity, prompted by recent theological disputes (Berlin 1773)
• Program I et II de theologia populari (Giessen 1775)
• Program Annotationes quasdam ad 2 Petr. 2,2, Judae 6 exhibens (Gießen 1776)
• Instructions for preaching and catechizing (Gießen 1777)
• Programm de Theologia morali, an dici possit caput, summa, centrum totius religionis christianae (Giessen 1779)
• Programm de Iisdem in Resurrectione Restituendis Corporibus ad I. Cor. XV, Disquisitio Theologica festo Paschali Sacra (Giessen 1781)
• Blessing speech at the so rare and strange official jubilee ceremony of Mr. Heinrich Schwarz, Inspectors zu Grünberg (Gießen 1781)
• History of religions, together with their reasons and counter-reasons (two volumes, Leipzig 1781/1783; volume 1 online )
• Meditatio de auctore anonymus of the bold reflections on Christianity verae naturae divinae Jesu Christi et SS Triados adversario (Leipzig 1783)
• Self-examination and religious resolutions; a self-talk (Leipzig 1769)
• Regarding eternity (Leipzig 1791, part 1)
• Religious education for the youth. Brief explanation of the Lutheri catechism (Gießen 1792)
• Regards to Eternity, Part 2, with the life of the author by RK von Senkenberg (Leipzig 1793)

literature

• Johann Benner: De notione satisfactionis eiusque vario in ecclesia fato , Giessen 1777, congratulations on Ouvrier's doctorate
• Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek , Volume 104, F. Nicolai, 1791, pp. 356-357, online
• Journal für Prediger , Volume 25, Kümmel 1792, pp. 469-473, online
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer history since the Reformation up to present times , Volume 10, 1794, pp. 209-214, online
• Christian Adolph Krahmer : About death according to the principles of nature and religion with regard to our deceased friends: along with some conversations with God in cases of mourning and death , 1797, p. 53, online
• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching : Historical literary handbook of famous and memorable persons who died in the 18th century , Volume 6, 1804, pp. 323-325, online
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume 10, G. Fleischer, der Jüngere, 1810, pp. 251/252, online
• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, Vol. 3, pp. 183-186, online
• Heinrich Döring: Ouvrier, Ludwig Benjamin in: Johann Samuelansch et al .: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , Section 3, Part 8, Gleditsch 1836, pp. 18/19, online
• Eugen Ouvrier: Description of the life of D Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier: court preacher in Darmstadt, university professor in Geissen, b. May 7, 1735 in Prenzlau, died October 1, 1792 in Giessen , Rückersdorf, 1993
• Bernhard H. Bonkhoff:  Ouvrier, Ludwig Benjamin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 32, Bautz, Nordhausen 2011, ISBN 978-3-88309-615-5 , Sp. 1054-1056.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ He was Grand Ducal Hess. District council to Grünberg
2. ↑ Biographical-Bibliographical Church Lexicon
3. ↑ ^{a b c} The learned theologians of Germany
4. ↑ On death
5. ^ General German Library