Ludwig Ernst von Borowski

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Ludwig Ernst von Borowski with the Order of the Black Eagle
Statue at the Neurossgärter Church by Cauer

Ludwig Ernst von Borowski (born June 17, 1740 in Koenigsberg ; † November 10, 1831 there ) was a German Protestant clergyman, most recently general superintendent and archbishop.

Life

Borowski was the son of a lacquer manufacturer and court bell ringer at the Königsberg castle church . In 1755 he was a student of Immanuel Kant at the Albertus University in Königsberg . From 1762 he worked as a field preacher in Sorau , from 1770 as the Lutheran archpriest of the Schaaken inspection in Schaaken (East Prussia) . In 1782 he was appointed pastor to the Neurossgärter Church in Königsberg (Prussia) . From 1793 he was royal special commissioner for churches and schools and from 1804 consistorial councilor .

Borowski enjoyed the unreserved esteem of Frederick the Great and his successors. This was especially true for Friedrich Wilhelm III. who remained in contact with Borowski after the death of Queen Luise through letters of comfort.

As senior consistorial advisor (1809) and general superintendent (1812), Borowski had a great influence on the school system. In 1815 he became chief preacher at the castle church , in 1816 bishop and finally in 1829 archbishop of the Evangelical Church of Prussia . He founded the Association of Bible Friends, in 1814 the Prussian Bible Society , the Königsberg Mission Association and in 1822 the Mission Directorate.

Borowski received the Order of the Black Eagle in 1831 and was thus ennobled .

Works

  • New Prussia. Church registry , 1789.
  • About D. Georg Christoph Pisanski - life, character and writings . Preface to Georg Christoph Pisanski : Draft of the Prussian Litterary History. Older history from the first beginnings of learned knowledge in Prussia to the beginning of the seventeenth century . Königsberg 1791 ( e-copy )
  • Depiction of the life and character of Immanuel Kant. Exactly revised and corrected by Kant himself . Königsberg 1804, 276 pages ( full text )
  • Selected sermons and speeches in the centuries 1762-1831 (KL Volkmann, ed.), 1833.
  • Königsberg patriotic sermons from the years 1806-1816 , ed. by Alfred Uckeley , 1913.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Jürgen Manthey: Königsberg - history of a world citizens' republic . Hanser, Munich 2005, p. 136f.
  2. ↑ The function of archpriest and the office of archpriesthood corresponded to superintendent and superintendent in other Lutheran regional churches.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Manthey: Königsberg - history of a world citizens' republic . Hanser, Munich 2005, p. 358.
predecessor Office successor
Johann Ernst Schulz
( until 1806, then vacancy )		 General superintendent in Königsberg for the Lutheran Upper Consistory of Prussia
1812 - 1817
from 1816 with the honorary title of bishop 		himself
( for the Evangelical Church in Prussia )
himself
( for the Lutheran senior consistory )		 General superintendent in Königsberg for the Evangelical Church in Prussia
1817 - 1829
with the honorary title of bishop 		himself
( for the old Prussian church province of Prussia )
himself
( for the Evangelical Church in Prussia )		 General Superintendent of the Old Prussian Church Province of Prussia
1829 - 1831
with the honorary title Archbishop of the Evangelical Church in Prussia 		Ludwig August Kähler
personal data
SURNAME Borowski, Ludwig Ernst von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, field preacher Frederick the Great
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1831
Place of death Koenigsberg