Rudolf Wedekind (theologian)

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Rudolf Wedekind (born June 18, 1716 in Horst near Hanover; † January 12, 1778 ) was a Protestant theologian (Old Testament scholar) and philosophy professor.

family

Rudolf Wedekind comes from the Lower Saxon family Wedekind zur Horst . He married Sophia Magdalena, daughter of the Göttingen mayor Georg Friedrich Morrien. Her children were, among others, the doctor Georg Wedekind , later Baron von Wedekind, first Jacobin and finally the Privy Councilor of State in Darmstadt, as well as the writer and translator Meta Forkel-Liebeskind , née. Wedekind.

Life

Rudolf Wedekind studied theology in Rinteln from 1735 and philosophy in Göttingen from 1737, where he obtained his master's degree in 1740. He was briefly deputy principal in Northeim, became deputy principal at the Gymnasium in Göttingen (today: Max-Planck-Gymnasium ) in 1741 and took over the post of school director in 1743.

At the philosophical faculty of the University of Göttingen he received a teaching position in 1746 and an extraordinary professorship in 1750, which he held until his death.

In 1753 he became rector of the Latin city school in Göttingen, which was founded in 1734, and in 1763 he was pastor at the Göttingen Church of Our Lady. Later he was also a preacher at St. Albani Church.

From 1757 to 1762 Rudolf Wedekind wrote a "Tagregister" in which he described the effects of the Seven Years' War on the city of Göttingen and its population.

literature

  • German Gender Book Volume 187, CA Starke, Limburg 1982, p. 606 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/222/2/Meta_ohne_Bthk.pdf
  2. ↑ Spehr: Enlightenment and Ecumenism: Reunionsversuche ; P. 153
  3. ↑ Rudolf Wedekind, Tagregister of the present war, edited by A. Pannenborg, Göttingen 1896, p. 7 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Wedekind, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian (Old Testament scholar) and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH Garbsen-Horst
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1778