Samuel Gottlieb Hünerwadel

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Samuel Gottlieb Hünerwadel (born January 29, 1771 , other dates: January 19, 1771, January 31, 1771 and February 5, 1771 in Koppigen , † December 6, 1848 in Bern ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

family

Samuel Gottlieb Hünerwadel was the son of pastor Johann Heinrich Hünerwadel (born April 21, 1732 in Lenzburg ; † March 23, 1811) and his wife Susanna Rosina Bonnet. In his second marriage, his father was married to Rosina Elisabeth (* December 2, 1742 in Bern; † April 1797), a daughter of Samuel Kaufmann (1704–1769), teacher and master's degree in Aarburg , pastor in Bleienbach and treasurer in Langenthal .

Samuel Gottlieb Hünerwadel had been married to Katharina (* 1788 in Zofingen; † 12 May 1864 in Bern), daughter of the saddler Hans Adam Frickart (1751–1826), since April 16, 1806, and they had three children together:

  • Samuel Gottlieb Hünerwadel (born January 19, 1771 in Koppigen; † February 5, 1877 in Bern), parish assistant in Diessbach , state clerk, secretary of the Bernese education department, married to Regula Margaretha (1815–1876), daughter of Rudolf Waser;
  • Susanna Louise Hünerwadel (born May 27, 1810 in Bern; † August 11, 1874 there), married to Bernhard Rudolf Studer , high school teacher, geologist , mineralogist ;
  • Katharina Julia Hünerwadel (born January 31, 1812 in Bern; † May 26, 1852), married to Johann Heinrich Spöndli from Zurich .

education

Because the family was entitled to live in Lenzburg , he attended the school there from 1779 and went to the high school five years later in 1784 . He studied theology and primarily the Hebrew and the classical languages , in addition he was tutor of two distinguished families, among others with the later mayor Christoph Friedrich Freudenreich . After he had passed his studies he was accepted as a candidate for preacher after his ordination on April 12, 1793.

Professional background

After working for a short time as vicar in the Staufberg Church near Lenzburg, he attended the University of Tübingen and the University of Göttingen to deepen his theological training . In Tübingen he heard the lectures given by Gottlob Christian Storr , Johann Friedrich Flatt and Ernst Gottlieb Bengel , which had a significant influence on his theological direction.

He returned in 1797 and initially worked as a vicar for his father, who had since been transferred to Bätterkinden . When in the spring of 1798 many villagers, including his father, fled when the French invaded , he was left alone in the rectory and was able to save the village, which was to be set on fire after the murder of a French man, risking his life.

In the period from March 1802 to 1809 he was second pastor in Zofingen and at the same time school and poor inspector of the district and a member of the Aargau Education Council. At his suggestion, Christian Heinrich Zeller became rector of the school in Zofingen.

In 1809 he was appointed professor of systematic and historical theology at the Bern Academy , which had been set up three years earlier , where he gave lectures on dogmatics , morality and church history . During his professorship, he held the office of Vice-Rector twice and more often of Dean of the Theological Faculty . In addition to his professorship, he was also a religion teacher at the literary school (today: Gymnasium Kirchenfeld ), gave confirmation lessons and was a member of the church and school council from 1816 to 1831; As such, he played a key role in revising the sermon order in 1824 and in the preparations for the Reformation Festival in 1828 . For the Reformation Festival he gave the academic speech about the symbolic books and composed some cantatas .

In 1825 he and Pastor Bernhard Karl Wyss (1793-1870) opened a home for poor and abandoned children, the boys' home Auf der Grube , which was not closed until 2012.

In 1832 he was elected a member of the newly introduced Church Synod and helped work out a new liturgy in its commission .

After the academy was converted into a university, he resigned his professorship in 1833 and, as successor to Johann Ludwig Samuel Lutz , took over the pastoral position at the Heiliggeistkirche until his death and devoted himself to poor relief and primary schooling.

He was also active as a landscape painter and Samuel Amsler's father followed his advice and trained him as a copper engraver .

Theological and literary work

In his theological views, Samuel Gottlieb Hunerwadel was a supranaturalist , but he was also inclined to rationalism . In his treatises De Mysticismo, ejus indole, progressu et sequelis and De iis, qui in religione nimii esse modumve excedere dicuntur, Mysticis, Fanaticis et Pietistis , he competes against mysticism and pietism .

In 1820 he published the Piscatorian Bible translation used in the Bernese regional church and in 1832 the Second Helvetic Confession .

He published some poetic poems, including the Ode to the Virgin , as well as the legend Basilides and Potamina in 1828 in the Alpenrosen .

Memberships

  • Shortly after his appointment to the professorship, Samuel Gottlob Hünerwadel became a member of the Bible Society , of which he was president from 1830 to 1846.
  • He was a member of the Bernese Art Society .

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernese families - persons. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Bernese families - persons. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Hünerwadel, Samuel Gottlieb. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Martinszeller Association. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Wyss, Bernhard Karl. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Christine Stuber: "Que ce réveil est beau!" On the revival movement in Bern from 1818 to 1831. p. 13, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  7. ^ Alpenrosen: to the year 1811 . Schweighauser, 1811 ( google.de [accessed on February 10, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Hünerwadel, Samuel Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hünerwadel, G .; Hünerwadel, Gottlieb; Hünerwadel, Theophil; Hünerwadel, Samuel G .; Hünerwadel, Samuel Gottlieb Theophil; Hünerwadel, S. Gottl. Th .; Hünerwadel, Samuel Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss reformed clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1771 or January 19, 1771 or January 31, 1771 or February 5, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Koppigen
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1848
Place of death Bern