Ludwig Friedrich von Schmidt

Ludwig Friedrich von Schmidt (born January 24, 1764 in Königsbach near Pforzheim , † July 5, 1857 in Munich ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Ludwig Friedrich von Schmidt

Ludwig Friedrich von Schmidt was born as the son of the Protestant pastor Georg Wilhelm Schmidt, who was employed as a country pastor in Königsbach in the Baden Oberamt Pforzheim, and later in Vörstetten . Ludwig Friedrich was tutored by his father until he was 15; After attending the exemte class at Karlsruhe grammar school for three years , he turned to studying theology at the University of Jena in 1782 , which he completed in 1784. After he had subsequently performed vicar service with his father, he was appointed pastor in Leisel in 1785 , a year later in Brombach and in 1790 in Birkenfeld .

Ludwig Friedrich Schmidt, who through his sermons in Birkenfeld had attracted the attention of the Baden Hereditary Prince Karl Ludwig , who was staying in the neighboring spa town of Hambach , was subsequently appointed as court deacon and garrison preacher at the court church in Karlsruhe in 1792 . After the marriage of the daughter of Hereditary Prince Karl Ludwig, Princess Karoline , who later became Electress and Queen of Bavaria, to the widowed Duke Max Joseph , he followed her to Munich in 1799 as court and cabinet preacher. Schmidt, who was the first evangelical clergyman authorized in Old Bavaria , held his first evangelical church service there in the same year .

In 1808 Schmidt, who was responsible for looking after a small but steadily growing evangelical congregation in Munich, was appointed the first extraordinary senior church councilor . From 1818 until the death of King Max Joseph in 1825, he finally served as Ministerialrat in the Ministry of the Interior, responsible for Protestant church affairs. In 1820 he was made a knight of the Order of Civil Merit of the Bavarian Crown and thus raised to the personal nobility. In 1826 v. Schmidt retired from his state office as Ministerialrat in order to follow the widowed Queen Karoline, unchanged in the role of cabinet minister, to Würzburg to her widow's residence the following year. There he was awarded a doctorate degree from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Würzburg in 1827 . The University of Jena had awarded him his theological doctorate in 1809 .

Ludwig Friedrich von Schmidt, who finally withdrew from the public after the death of Queen Caroline in 1841, died in Munich in the summer of 1857 at the old age of 93.

literature

• Ms. Schmidt:  Schmidt, Ludwig Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 327 f.
• Adolph von Schaden (Hrsg.): Scholars Munich in the year 1834. Munich 1834 (entry to LF v. Schmidt)
• Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 9, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 15.
• Ernst Gillmann: Ludwig Friedrich Schmidt (1764-1857). The "cabinet preacher" of the Bavarian Queen - his early years of apprenticeship in the Birkenfelder Land, in: MONTHS for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland 53 (2004) 519-530.