Theodor Lehmus

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Theodor Lehmus (born December 2, 1777 in Soest , † August 18, 1837 in Nuremberg ) was a Lutheran theologian .

Life

Theodor Lehmus was the grandson of the nursery rhyme poet Johann Adam Lehmus (1707–1788) and the father-in-law of the Erlangen theologian Gottfried Thomasius . From 1796 Lehmus studied theology at the Friedrichs University Halle and the University of Jena . He was influenced by Johann Gottlieb Fichte , but also by Karl Daub , Philipp Marheinecke , Henrik Steffens , Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Schelling . By dealing with Johann Georg Hamann , he then tended , coming from moderate rationalism , to (moderately confessional) neo-Lutheran theology of experience .

Lehmus became a deacon in Dinkelsbühl in 1800 and city chaplain in Ansbach in 1807 . From 1819 he was pastor at St. Johannis and later dean and religion teacher at the Ansbach grammar school. He became an employee of the Homiletic-Liturgical Correspondence Gazette  (HLC) and was feared there as the "horror of all rationalists". In the 1920s Lehmus was widely read in Erlangen and thus became a pioneer of Erlangen theology .

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SURNAME Lehmus, Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmus, Adam Theodor Albert Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH Soest
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1837
Place of death Nuremberg