Wilhelm Alexander Schwollmann

Wilhelm Alexander Schwollmann (born March 26, 1734 in Schleswig ; † April 21, 1800 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Schwollmann was the son of Theophil Schwollmann (1697–1766), preacher in Schleswig-Friedrichsberg and castle preacher at Gottorf Castle , and Anna Christina Quistorp (1695–1743), a daughter of the Rostock theology professor and superintendent Johann Nikolaus Quistorp . He was trained at the cathedral school . He then studied theology and philology at the University of Halle , moved to the University of Rostock in June 1757 and received his master's degree there on July 31, 1757 . On October 1, 1757, he was employed in Rostock as a private lecturer and as an adjunct . In 1759 he returned to his hometown to help his father, who had meanwhile become ill, in his service, and in 1763 finally took over the office entirely. In 1769 he was also given the office of castle preacher at Gottorf Castle. Schwollmann became consistorial advisor in 1776, provost von Hütten in 1791 and, five years later, senior consistorial advisor . Two more years later, in 1798, he voluntarily retired . He was married to Maria Dorothea (1744-1820), a daughter of the general superintendent Adam Struensee .

In 1790 he was commissioned to develop a new liturgy for the Schleswig-Holstein church. However, his design was rejected by Balthasar Münter , whereupon his father-in-law's successor, Adler , took over the work.

Works

• A meditation on Gal. 2, 9 (1755)
• Exegetical investigation of the place Hebr. 4, 1-3 (1756)
• Philological and critical examination of the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant (1757)
• Commentatio, qua de Joannis in Pathmo exilio modeste dubitat (1757)
• Stricturae hist. Crit. additamentorum introductior. litterariorum in antiquitates Graecorum sacras descriptionem brevem sistens (1757)
• Commentatio crit. et polemica ad Gen. 19, 26 (1759)
• The Christian commitment in this life to strive above all for the eternal and invisible in order to become happy (1763)
• De episcopis a presbyteris diversis (1780)
• De imputatione peccatorum mundi Christo non qua poenas illorum tantum, sed qua culpam etiam et maculam eorum facta (1789)
• Principles according to which the liturgy intended for the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein and the manual of the pericopes were drawn up. (1793)

literature

• Carsten Erich Carstens :  Schwollmann, Wilhelm Alexander . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 473 f.
• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1835, Volume 4, p. 145 ( books.google.com )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig 1812, Volume 12, p. 644 ( books.google.de )
• Berend Kordes: Lexicon of the now-living Schleswig-Holstein and Eutinian writers. Verlag Johann Gottlob Röhss, Schleswig 1797, p. 310 ( books.google.de )
• Matthias Wolfes :  Schwollmann, Wilhelm Alexander. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 1323-1326.
• Schwollmann, Wilhelm Alexander . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 15 : Scalabrini – Skanke . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1901, p. 410-411 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1798, Volume 7, p. 425 ( books.google.com ); 1803, Volume 10, p. 653 ( books.google.com )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry of the matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
3. ↑ Entry of the reception in the Rostock matriculation portal