Ludwig Heinrich Kunhardt

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Black and white illustration of the portrait Ludwig Heinrich Kunhardt by Hermann Steinfurth

Ludwig Heinrich Kunhardt (born June 1, 1788 in Stade , † August 23, 1871 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Live and act

Kunhardt came from the extensive north German academic family Kunhardt ; his father Martin Gotthard Kunhardt was a pastor and senior in Stade. He attended the Athenaeum Stade and the learned school of the Johanneum and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Helmstedt and Göttingen . In 1812 he was accepted as a candidate for the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and at the same time as a collaborator at the Johanneum. On February 28, 1819 he was elected deacon (2nd pastor) at the main church St. Jacobi in Hamburg. Here he spent his entire life in office. When he celebrated his 50th anniversary in office on February 28, 1869, he received an honorary theological doctorate from the Göttingen theological faculty .

"Ludwig Heinrich Kunhardt", double collecting grave plate, main pastors of St. Jacobi / pastors of St. Jacobi , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Kunhardt was one of the founding members of the Association for Hamburg History in 1839 . He explored the theme of life what one his day ascetic literature called, so spiritual use literature as devotional and prayer books . After years of collecting, he put together an extensive library. A literary history of German Protestant edification pamphlets from the Reformation to 1800, with numerous examples of sources, which he had almost completed , could not find a publisher; he made the manuscript available to Carl Johann Cosack , and after his death it was published as Cosack's work by Bernhard Weiss - initially without any reference to Kunhardt's authorship . It was not until Kunhardt's funeral day, August 26, 1871, that a note appeared in the New Evangelical Church newspaper acknowledging his authorship.

Since October 1820 he was with Emilie, geb. Riecke († 1844), married. The couple had four sons and three daughters, three of whom, however, died early. The only surviving son Ludwig Johann (* 1835) became a merchant and emigrated to Haiti .

Kunhardt bequeathed his library to the Hamburg City Library (today the Hamburg State and University Library ). He also bequeathed part of his fortune to supplement the Hamburg preacher's widow fund . This foundation was named Kunhardt Foundation by the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 1871 .

Ludwig Heinrich Kunhardtl is commemorated on the double collecting grave plate, main pastors to St. Jacobi / pastors to St. Jacobi of the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, Ohlsdorf Cemetery .

Works

  • On the history of evangelical ascetic literature in Germany: A contribution to the history of Christian life as well as to the history of culture and literature / by CJ Cosack. From the author's estate, published by B. Weiss. Basel [u. a.]: Riehm 1871
Digitized copy of the Harvard-Andover Theological Seminary, previous owner: Heinrich Hermelink

literature

  • Georg Heinrich Röpe: To commemorate the fiftieth official jubilee of Mr. Ludwig Heinrich Kunhardt, Dr. theol. Archdeacon of St. Jacobi, February 28 and March 4, 1869. Hamburg 1869
  • Kunhardt (Ludwig Heinrich) , in: Lexicon of Hamburg writers. Volume 4. Hamburg: Perthes 1866, p. 264.
  • Carl Bertheau :  Kunhardt, Ludwig Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 379 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New Evangelical Church Newspaper No. 34 of August 26, 1871, column 535
  2. ^ Provenance: Kunhardt, Ludwig Heinrich / Exlibris / Date 1871. Retrieved on April 5, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Kunhardt, Ludwig Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 1871
Place of death Hamburg