Wilhelm Heinrich Erbkam

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Wilhelm Heinrich Erbkam (born July 8, 1810 in Glogau , † January 9, 1884 in Königsberg ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Wilhelm Heinrich Erbkam was born on July 8, 1810 in Glogau as the son of a senior government councilor and the daughter of Bishop Friedrich Samuel Gottfried Sack . Erbkam's father was soon transferred to Berlin as a secret councilor through Sack . He later studied theology at the University of Bonn ; his teachers were his uncle Karl Heinrich Sack , Karl Immanuel Nitzsch and Friedrich Bleek . Then he moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin under Friedrich Schleiermacher , August Neander and Philipp Konrad Marheineke and then to the Wittenberg Preachers' Seminar , where he showed an interest in church history under Richard Rothe .

He completed his studies in Berlin, received his habilitation in 1838 and, as a private lecturer, gave lectures on the history of the church and dogma as well as on systematic theology. He worked as such for ten years and wrote his first literary work Illuminating the Declaration of 1845 . In the writing he took a position in the protest against the Evangelical Church newspaper and its publisher Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg , which had been started by Rulemann Friedrich Eylert and Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke . Erbkam defended the criticized Hengstenberg, but not the passionate tone in the newspaper.

In 1847 the University of Königsberg appointed him extraordinary professor for church and dogma history, where in the following year he wrote his main work, The History of the Protestant Sects in the Age of Reformation . In 1855, Erbkam was promoted to full professor as the successor to Justus Ludwig Jacobi . From 1857 he also worked as a consistorial councilor .

Erbkam died on January 9, 1884 at the age of 73 in Königsberg.

Erbkam had made a name for himself in the world through his piety, reliability and love of truth. He wrote 14 biographies about theologians for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

Works

  • Life and teaching of Kaspar Schwenckfeld (1838)
  • Illumination of the Declaration of August 15, 1845 (1845)
  • History of the Protestant Sects in the Age of Reformation (1848)
  • De Irenaei principiis ethicis (1856)
  • The Value of Church History Works for Theological Science and Church Life (1856)
  • Melanchthon's relationship to Duke Albrecht of Prussia and to Konigsberg University (celebratory speech on April 19, 1860)
  • Speech at Schleiermacher's centenary birthday party on November 21, 1868

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Erbkam, Wilhelm Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1884
Place of death Koenigsberg