Theodor Gotthold Thienemann

Theodor Gotthold Thienemann (born September 29, 1754 in Altenburg , † February 2, 1827 in Rochlitz ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the Altenburg court preacher and later superintendent in Orlamünde, Christian August Thienemann and his wife Johanna Dorothea Petzold, had received his first training in Orlamünde. In 1770 he moved to the University of Jena , where he initially studied law and then switched to theology. After returning to his homeland, from 1774 he was occupied with the teaching of his younger brother August Renatus Gottfried Thienemann, who later was pastor in Löbichau near Jena. After the death of his father, Thienemann had administered his parish with the local deacon and moved to the Jena University again at Easter 1781, which he left after six months for health reasons.

Then he was a private teacher in Hummelshain , in 1782 became a vicar at the consistory in Altenburg and in 1788 a preacher at the Magdalenenstift in Altenburg . As an inspector of the country churches and country schools in Altenburger Land, he had earned merit from 1789, also by setting up a school teachers' college and a college of preachers. In 1795 he went to Kohren as a preacher , in 1813 had refused a position as court preacher in Altenburg and on October 31, 1817 became senior pastor and superintendent in Rochlitz. At the instigation of his friend Johann Severin Vater he was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Theology by the theological faculty of the University of Königsberg on the day he took up his post in Rochlitz . After being in good health well into old age, he died of a severe chest ailment.

Act

Thienemann had mostly occupied himself with church history and patristics. He owed his philosophical education to an ongoing study of Immanuel Kant's writings, which he held in high esteem, without being a firm believer in his system. The philosophical head was shown not only in several of his treatises reported in theological journals, but also in his sermons. He used to write it down verbatim and keep it that way. His pulpit lecture was instructive and attractive, and a pleasant language supported him well into his later years. In addition to theology, he occupied himself with other branches of science, particularly astronomy and numismatics. Those occupations made no contribution to the conscientious fulfillment of his professional duties.

His character as a person was adorned with strict honesty and an innocent way of life in every respect. He could therefore be strict in his judgment of the way of life of his fellow ministers. Although his few writings did not make him famous, they, especially several of his treatises in theological journals, spoke for the thoroughness of his knowledge and for his acuteness. This includes what he said about the atheism of Diagoras in Georg Gustav Fülleborn's (1769-1803) articles on the history of philosophy and about the use of the so-called moral interpretation of scriptures in the pulpit in the Journal für Preacher .

He also had his very successful attempt at a characteristic of the Church Fathers printed in the magazine mentioned above and his history of the doctrine of God's providence in Karl Friedrich Stäudlin's Magazine for Religion, Morality and Church History . In addition to the contributions to Christian edification that he published in 1802, another pamphlet published in 1798 is important because in it he gave the correct point of view from which all attempts to explain the miracle stories of the New Testament naturally must be considered.

family

From his marriage on July 7th, 1795 with Christiana Friederica Concordia, the daughter of the pastor in Kohren Centurius Ludwig Crusius and his wife Sophia Friederica Zakrewsky, five sons were born, of which only three sons survived the father. Known by the children is:

• Ernst Julius Thienemann (born July 11, 1796 in Kohren; † May 27, 1858), pastor in Tegkwitz
• Gotthold Ferdinand Thienemann (born April 6, 1798 in Kohren; † September 21, 1800 ibid)
• August Eduard Thienemann (born October 9, 1800 in Kohren, † April 30, 1870 in Kötzschenbroda)
• Wilhelm Ferdinand Thienemann (born May 22, 1803 in Kohren; † February 2, 1855 in Neukirchen, District of Borna)
• Richard Emil Thienemann (born November 23, 1806 in Kohren, † April 8, 1813 in Kohren)

Works

• Two sermons on the doctrine of the future life. Altenburg 1794
• Determination of the location from which all attempts to explain the miracle stories of the New Testament from natural causes are to be viewed. Leipzig 1798
• Instruction for school teachers in the country to dutifully administer their office. Leipzig 1798
• Contributions to Christian edification. Altenburg 1802

literature

• Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans. Bernhard Friedrich Voight p. 133, ( Online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Verlag Meyer, Lemgo, 1800, 5th ed., Vol. 8, p. 44, ( online ); 1803, Vol. 10, p. 741, ( online ); 1827, vol. 21, ( online )
• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 470, ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ * 7 Apr 1717 in Etzdorf; Father Gottfried Thienemann, mother Dorothea Elisabeth Schumann, 1732 Gym. Gera, Gym Eisenberg, 1736 Uni. Jena, 1739 Mag. Phil., 1739 private tutor Freiburg / Unstrut, 1742 private tutor Altenburg, Easter 1744 field preacher Gotha (Leib.Regiment) visited cities on the Rhine and in Holland during this time, 1747 court preacher Altenburg appointed, 1748 admission, 1755 Sup. Orlamünde , † June 30 (July, end of November, November 25?) 1780 in Orlamünde (source: Johann D. Gschwend: Eisenbergische Land-Chronika. Verlag Christian Heinrich Walther, Eisenberg, 1758, ( online ), Bernhard Möller: Thuringian pastor book - Volume 1: Duchy of Gotha. Verlag Degner und Co., 1995, Neustadt / Aisch, ISBN 3768641430 , p. 658)
2. ↑ * October 3, 1734 in Langenleuba; mated May 11, 1751 in Schmölln; † July 30, 1780 in Orlamünde (source: parish book ibid.)
3. ↑ see: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar, 1838, 14th year, 1836, 1st part, p. 410, ( online )
4. ↑ 1799. St. 2. P. 15 f.
5. ↑ Vol. 34, p. 377 f.
6. ↑ Vol. 49, p. 385 and Vol. 55, p. 1 f.
7. ↑ 1804. Vol. 3. St. 1.
8. ↑ * September 19, 1738 in Torgau, father Georg Friedrich Crusius councilor in Torgau (* July 15, 1692 in Chemnitz; † May 25, 1743 in Torgau), mother Christiana Charlotte Concordia Henkel (* January 10, 1706 in Torgau; † 18 June 1774 in Flemmingen), 1752 State School St. Afra in Meißen, registered May 4, 1754 (free) University of Wittenberg, April 30, 1759 Mag. Phil. ibid., 1772 pastor in Flemmingen, 1784 pastor in Kohren, † August 20, 1795 in Kohren (source: August Hermann Kreyssig, Paul Hermann Kreyssig, Otto Eduard Wilsdorf: Album of the Evangelical Lutheran clergy in the Kingdom of Saxony, from the Reformation times to Present. Verlag Robert Raab, 1898 Crimmitschau, 2nd ed., P. 297, Matrikel UWB, Stammliste CRUSIUS (KRAUS) Balthasar I ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. (accessed December 3, 2010) 
9. ↑ * September 1, 1750 in Pretzsch, father Michael Zakrzewsky, mother Helene Sophia Bruckret, married. May 11, 1773 in Pretzsch; † February 8, 1831 Nenkersdorf
10. ↑ cf. also genealogy page ( memento of the original from December 26th, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 3, 2010)