Otto Wolters (theologian)

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Otto Ludwig Siegmund Wolters (born December 17, 1796 in Hamburg ; † May 14, 1874 there ) was a German Lutheran theologian and clergyman .

Life

Wolters was the son of the preacher Michael Wolters (1754-1844) and a nephew of the Hamburg councilor Andreas Christian Wolters . Wolters first attended the Runge boys' school in Hamburg. In 1810 he switched to the Johanneum School of Scholars , where he was under the influence of Johann Gottfried Gurlitt . There he made friends with the later mayor Heinrich Kellinghusen and the preacher Johann John . In 1815 he went to the Academic Gymnasium and from there one year later to the University of Göttingen to study theology. In 1817, as Gurlitt promised, he continued his studies at the University of Leipzig , but after one semester he switched to the University of Jena .

Wolters returned to Hamburg and in December 1819 passed the candidate exam "with great distinction". He then became a teacher at the Johanneum and in 1823 a deacon at the main church of Sankt Katharinen . On December 1, 1844, he was elected chief pastor at the Katharinenkirche. In this function, the examination of the preacher candidates and the training of high school students also belonged to his tasks. On his jubilee preacher on September 28, 1863, the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen, represented by his student Ludwig Duncker , appointed him Dr. theol. By the time he was 50 years old as a preacher, he was already suffering from a lung disease. He therefore did not accept the election of senior at the Hamburg Ministry .

Wolters' sons include the pastor of St. Petri and theologian Karl Johann Wilhelm Wolters (1832–1907) and the opera singer Otto Ludwig Wolters (1836–1906).

Works (selection)

  • Reflections on the seven last words of the dying Savior , Hamburg 1828.
  • Four Advent sermons , Hamburg 1832.
  • Ten sermons on the new gospels , Hamburg 1843.
  • Is the Bible really a people's book , 31st Annual Report of the Biblical Society Altona , Altona 1846.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Schröder : Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , Volume 8, Hamburg 1883, No. 4504.
  2. ↑ Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , Volume 8, Hamburg 1883, No. 4503.
  3. ↑ For the year of death, see tombstone on grabsteine.genealogy.net (as of October 4, 2017).
predecessor Office successor
Heinrich Wilhelm Justus Wolff Chief Pastor to St. Katharinen in Hamburg
1844 - 1873 		Adolf Glitza
personal data
SURNAME Wolters, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolters, Otto Ludwig Siegmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1796
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1874
Place of death Hamburg