Reinhard Christoph Ungewitter

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Reinhard Christoph Ungewitter (born January 25, 1715 in Marburg , † December 31, 1784 in Kassel ) was a German Reformed theologian.

Life

The son of Johann Christoph Ungewitter and his wife Helene Christine Scheffer received their education at the grammar school in his hometown. After his father moved in 1727, he attended the educational center in Kassel. He started his studies at the University of Marburg , where Christian Wolff had found a place of work at that time . He completed a theological degree with Johann Christian Kirchmayer , read Samuel Werenfels , Jean-Alphonse Turrettini , Hugo Grotius and others. He also expanded his knowledge of the oriental and some occidental languages. He also studied canon law at the university's law faculty. After completing his academic studies, he went to Kassel in 1736, where he worked as a preacher at the court hospital in 1738.

In 1743 he became a deacon at the Untereustädter Church, in June 1748 third preacher at the Freedom Church and in September 1755 second preacher at the Brethren or Altstädter Church. In 1762 he was promoted to archdeacon at the Church of Freedom and in 1771 received the title of Consistorial Councilor, making him the first preacher at the Church of the Brothers. On March 13th of the same year he had taken over the superintendent of the Kassel diocese and at the same time had become senior court preacher. After a stroke he suffered in 1778, he was paralyzed on one side; his speech organs had also been affected, so that he could no longer enter the pulpit. However, his mental powers were not affected by this blow and he only died six years later.

Act

Just like his father, Ungewitter was a capable and popular preacher. A series of sermons that he gave to press testify to his strength and talent. They betray the believing Christian as much as they do the able, knowledgeable, hardworking, and careful theologians. Even if he rightly characterized the proclamation of Christian redemption as his most excellent task, he was not a despiser of science and reasonable thought, but rather knew how to appreciate reason in its border area.

In 1755, he described the ideal of a practical theologian who endeavored to realize in his work De theologo tempori serviente commentatio , a kind of pastoral theology. It contains some principles about the tasks of the theologus discens as well as the theologus docens and shows the author well-read in old and new works. More often he quotes Werenfels, Turretin, Grotius, and Wolff. His writings were not limited, like those of his father, to sermons and speeches, but also included exegetical and dogmatic experiments.

Works

  • Diss. De studio prophetico sobrie instituendo. Marburg 1736
  • Explanation of the letter of the Heil. Jacob. Lemgo 1754
  • Commentatio de Theologo tempori serviente. Hersfeld 1755
  • The duty of the evang; Teacher at the decision and beginning of his salvation. Office; considered in a farewell and inaugural sermon. Kassel 1755
  • Attempt at a free translation of the two letters of Peter and the three letters of St. John's, with notes. Frankfurt am Main 1757
  • Drey gave sermons on his last change of office. Kassel 1771
  • Commemorative sermon from the death of Landgravine Marie, royal. Princess. v. Great Britain. ruler. Landgrave of Hesse. Frankfurt am Main 1772
  • Sermon on the great day of prayer about the story of Aposiel 14, 17.Frankfurt am Main 1772
  • Sermon on the annual big day of prayer on Ps. 38, 19. Frankfurt am Main 1773
  • Sermon on the great day of prayer, about Jerem. 10, 6. 7. Frankfurt am Main 1774, 1775, 1776
  • Speech at the occasion of the baptism of two Moors etc. Frankfurt am Main 1774
  • An Ober-Rhineland attempt at a legal investigation of the most important disputes which the death of the Elector Maximilian Joseph, Duke of Bavaria, brought about in Germany. Rense 1778
  • Sermons about important truths of faith and duties of life. 1st chapter. Kassel 1780; Part 2. Kassel 1781

literature

personal data
SURNAME Thunderstorm, Reinhard Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1784
Place of death kassel