Ludwig Heydenreich (theologian)
August Ludwig Christian Heydenreich (born July 25, 1773 in Wiesbaden ; † September 26, 1858 there ) was a German Protestant theologian. From 1837 until his death he was the regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Nassau .
life and work
Heydenreich, the son of pastor Johann Andreas Heydenreich (1736–1801), studied Protestant theology at the University of Erlangen from 1789 and in 1792 earned his master's degree . He received his first position in 1794 as pastor and rector of the Usingen Latin School. Further stations were Wiesbaden, Klarenthal and Usingen again. In 1813 he became pastor and inspector ( superintendent ) in Dotzheim . Due to his participation in the Idstein Synod of 1817, at which the union of the Lutheran and Reformed Church in the Duchy of Nassau was decided, he was appointed professor at the seminary in Herborn in 1818 . In 1825 he was promoted to director. After Georg Müller's death in 1838 he became regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Nassau. As early as 1841 he fell seriously ill and had most of the official business dealt with by Ludwig Wilhelm Wilhelmi , assigned to him as commissioner , who succeeded him after his death.
In his theology Heydenreich combined influences from the revival movement , supranaturalism and Schleiermacher . With his multi-volume dogmatics The peculiar teachings of Christianity, especially for practical clergy (1833-1838) and the ordination form of the Nassau order of worship from 1843, he shaped the Nassau pastors in a conservative sense. In the hymn book for the Evangelical Christian residents of the Duchy of Nassau from 1842 he is represented with 57 songs, two of which were also included in the follow-up hymn book from 1895.
family
Heydenreich was married to the pastor's daughter Eva Susanne Lindenborn (1780–1842) from 1804. The physician and politician Ludwig Heydenreich was one of his children .
literature
- Alfred Adam : Heydenreich, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 72 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Heydenreich, August Ludwig Christian . In: Religion Past and Present (RGG). 4th edition. Volume 3, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2000, Sp. 1722.
- Karl Dienst : Miniatures of a Nassau church history (= Journal of religious culture No. 165). Frankfurt am Main 2012, p. 199 ( online resource ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heydenreich, Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heydenreich, August Ludwig Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1773 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1858 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |