Ludwig Gerhard

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Ludwig Gerhard (* around 1680 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ; † 1738 in Altona ) was a German Lutheran theologian and teacher.

Life

Ludwig Gerhard was the son of the Friedlander Pastor Ludwig Gerhard (d. 1690), who came from Glückstadt on the Elbe, and his wife Elisabeth, b. Pistorius, pastor's daughter from Friedland.

Gerhard, who had previously probably attended the scholarly school in his hometown and obtained his university entrance qualification there, enrolled as a theology student at the University of Rostock in 1701 , obtained a master's degree in philosophy there in 1702 and was accepted into the philosophical faculty a month later . In 1709 Gerhard became rector of the cathedral school in Ratzeburg , from which today's Lauenburg school of scholars emerged in 1845 . A dispute with the cathedral preacher and provost of the Ratzeburg cathedral chapter, Gottfried Kohlreif , led to his transfer to the Strelitz city ​​school in 1712 , where he did not, however, settle. In 1715 he became a private lecturer in Rostock. In 1718 a pietistic Christmas sermon in the Jakobikirche in Rostock , which he held on behalf of the sick pastor, caused a stir and brought him into conflict with the city's Lutheran Orthodox clergy . The ministry of the clergy managed to stop his private lectures in Rostock, so that he lost his material livelihood.

In the hope of becoming the rector in Schwerin , he first moved to Parchim with his wife . From there he defended his theological convictions with the publication Systema Apokatastaseos , which appeared in print in 1727 . A complete doctrinal concept of the Eternal Gospel of the Return of All Things , which he dedicated to the theologian Johann Franz Buddeus . This font in the sense of its model Johann Wilhelm Petersen was censored and confiscated in Mecklenburg. It sparked a series of controversial replies. Gerhard had no choice but to leave the country; From 1728 he spent the last years of his life in Altona in Holstein.

literature

  • Wilhelm Möller :  Gerhard, Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 773 f.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3228 .
  • Georg Krüger: The pastors in Stargard since the Reformation. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Volume 69 (1904), p. 45

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Ludwig Gerhard the Elder's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Student lists or high school graduation registers have not survived for Friedländer Anstalt from that time.
  3. ↑ See the respective entries in the Rostock matriculation portal:
    1. the matriculation of Ludwig Gerhard ,
    2. the master's degree from Ludwig Gerhard and
    3. also the reception of Ludwig Gerdhard ; previous study locations are not yet known.
  4. ↑ See Johann Friederich Jaenicke : God's acclamation to M. Ludwig Gerhard from Job XXXIIX. v. 2. Who is he who is so lacking in wisdom? and talks so with ignorance? issued to him , Samuel Heyl, 1728; Erdmann Neumeister : Thorough refutation of the Kurtzen concept recently published by M. Ludwig Gerhard of the so-called restoration of all things, whereby orthodox Christians warned against such holy doctrine, but wanted to bring the seduced back right , Hertel, 1731.
personal data
SURNAME Gerhard, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedland (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH 1738
Place of death Altona