Ludwig Dankegott Cramer

Ludwig Dankegott Cramer (born April 19, 1791 in Baumersroda ; † January 3, 1824 ; different date January 8, 1824 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

Ludwig Dankegott Cramer was the son of Johann Gottlieb Cramer († June 27, 1826), pastor, who also gave him his first lessons. He still had three siblings.

From 1802 to 1808 he attended the Latin School in Halle and began studying theology and philosophy at the University of Wittenberg at Easter 1808. His fellow students at the time were Gottlieb Wilhelm Gerlach , Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn , Karl Immanuel Nitzsch , Franz Spitzner , Jonathan August Weichert , Friedrich Traugott Friedemann , Gottlob Wilhelm Müller and Friedrich Lindemann , with whom he made close friends. He heard lectures from Karl Ludwig Nitzsch , Johann Friedrich Schleusner , Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner , Julius Friedrich Winzer and Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz .

In 1810 the Dresden court preacher Franz Volkmar Reinhard attended the University of Wittenberg. On this occasion Ludwig Dankegott Cramer, as a member of a literary society led by Julius Friedrich Winzer, defended his first attempt at writing Doctrinae Judaeorum de praeexistentia animarum adumbratio et historia . In the following year he presented the senior consistory president Freiherr Heinrich Victor August von Ferber (1770-1821) from Dresden , during his visit, his treatise on mysticism in philosophy , which was printed shortly afterwards in the Wittenberger Wochenblatt. In the same year he received his master's degree from Dean Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz and passed the candidate exam in Dresden.

On April 22, 1812 , he completed his habilitation in Wittenberg and gave lectures in moral philosophy and the Hebrew language from 1812 to 1813 ; shortly afterwards he was appointed curator of the Wittenberg University Library .

Due to the warlike developments, he had to leave Wittenberg in 1813 and stayed at his parents' house in Zorbau near Querfurt , where his father had been transferred as a preacher. During this time he wrote an attempt at a systematic presentation of the morality of the Apocrypha of the Old Testament and on the harmful influence of French despotism on the literature of the Germans . During this time he also gave sermons as a clergyman, as he did in Wittenberg, including in Schmiedeberg, where some of the Wittenberg professors had gone.

He continued his academic career after the University of Wittenberg was merged with the University of Halle in 1817; Shortly afterwards he was Easter 1817 as the fourth full professor at the theological faculty of the University of Rostock called., where he was until 1819 University preacher .

After the death of Karl August Gottlieb Keil , he was appointed fourth full professor at the University of Leipzig at Easter 1819; with De mysticismo veri protestantissimi infesto , he delivered his inaugural address on May 22, 1819. He gave lectures on Hebrew grammar , theological encyclopedia and methology, biblical theology of the New Testament , Christian dogmatics and the history of dogma , the dogmatic system of the Roman and Greek Catholic Church and the Socinians , as well as the practical theological sciences: homiletics , catechetics , Pastoral Theology and Liturgy .

He also gave various sermons at the university church in Leipzig.

In 1819 he founded a dogmatic society that dealt with the elaboration of treatises and practiced in disputes .

Ludwig Dankegott Cramer had been with Ernestine Amalie, born in 1819. Richter from Zeitz married; they had two children together.

Honors

On the occasion of the Reformation Festival in 1817, Ludwig Dankegott Cramer was appointed an honorary doctor of theology by the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg .

Fonts (selection)

• Doctrinae Judaeorum de praeexistentia animarum adumbratio et historia . Wittenberg 1810.
• Commentatio historica de caussis instauratae saeculo XV. in Italia philosophiae Platonicae . Vitebergae, 1812.
• De caussis instauratae saeculo XV in Italia philosophiae platonicae: commentatio historica . Vitebergae: Graessler, 1812.
• Attempt to systematically present the morality of the Old Testament apocrypha . Leipzig 1814.
• On the harmful influence of French despotism on German literature . Quedlinburg 1815.
• Frank judgment of the writing of Mr. Prepositus Schmidt in Lübz: "On reform of the clergy for the lasting celebration of the Reformation jubilation in 1817". Initially for the Protestant clergy in Mecklenburg . Berlin and Leipzig 1818.
• Historia sententiarum de sacra librorum Vet. Testamenti auctoritate ad Christianos spectante . Leipzig 1819.
• De bibliologia in sacris NT libris proposita tractatus . Leipzig, Univ. Diss., 1819.
• About religious enthusiasm. A sermon was held at the Reformation Festival in Leipzig in 1820 . Leipzig 1821.
• Lectures on the biblical theology of the New Testament . Edited by Friedrich Adolf August Näbe. Leipzig 1830.
• New Testament Biblical Theology, or, The Teachings of Christianity . Leipzig 1833.

literature

• Ludwig Dankegott Cramer . In: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung from January 1824.
• Ludwig Dankegott Cramer . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 2nd year, 1824, 1st part. Ilmenau 1826. p. 119 f.

Web links

• Ludwig Dankegott Cramer . In: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig .
• Ludwig Dankegott Cramer . In: German biography .
• Ludwig Dankegott Cramer . In: Historical course catalog of the University of Leipzig .
• Entry on Ludwig Dankegott Cramer in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium

Individual evidence

1. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg: 1826 . Pp. 252, 1826 ( google.de [accessed June 17, 2019]).
2. ↑ Ludwig Dankegott Cramer: About the harmful influence of French despotism on the German literature . S. 42. G. Basse, 1815 ( google.de [accessed June 17, 2019]).