Wilhelm Johann Julius Hoppenstedt

Wilhelm Johann Julius Hoppenstedt (born January 14, 1726 in Braunschweig , † September 24, 1788 in Seelze ) was a Lutheran theologian and pastor who held various pastoral offices in northern Germany and whose sons held important positions in Hanoverian church and state offices.

Hoppenstedt was the son of Heinrich Conrad Hoppenstedt, a court procurator, lawyer and notary in Braunschweig. From April 1750 he studied theology for three years at the Georg-August University in Göttingen "after the early loss of his parents with some charitable support" and at the same time financed himself as a private tutor. He began his pastoral work in 1753 as pastor adjunctus and from 1756 as chief pastor in Sülfeld near Fallersleben and continued his service from 1757 to 1776 in Groß Schwülper near Braunschweig and from 1776 to 1781 at the garden church in Hanover. His last pastor's position was in Seelze near Hanover, where he died "of chest problems" and was buried on October 5, 1788 in the presence of his nine surviving children.

In his writings of edification , he turned against the enlightenment tendency of his time to question Christianity in a secular and rational way (see Reimarus , Lessing ). The works were discussed throughout Germany and counted “among the best edification writings of our time”; Friedrich Nicolai wrote that Hoppenstedt was "known through" Jesus and his contemporaries . In a review of the third volume it is said that "the author retains the usual opinion in many cases, but it is so dear to us for that very reason that so much warm zeal for Jesus' benevolent religion inspires him, and because it is so cheap, thinks so indulgently, so Christianly towards those whose convictions in religion are not his own. "

His first marriage was on September 7, 1756; so report the Braunschweigischen advertisements that “the Mr. Past. zu Sülfeld and Ehmen, WJJ Hoppenstedt "in St. Martini (Braunschweig) the" Jfr. LD Giebeln “got married. After her untimely death, he married Luise Henriette Steigerthal (1742–1821), a daughter of Gifhorn superintendent Georg Friedrich Steigerthal, on January 16, 1759 in Groß Schwülper. The marriage resulted in fourteen children, three of whom became outstanding churchmen and statesmen from Hanover, namely August Ludwig , Karl Wilhelm and Georg Ernst Friedrich Hoppenstedt . Four daughters did not survive adolescence, and nothing is known about their son August Johann Friedrich, born in 1765; the eldest daughter died after her marriage to the pastor Johann Friedrich Steinhöfel in Waake at the age of 26. The second oldest married the pastor Johann Nicolaus Schrage , another (Charlotte) married the Rehburg well doctor Heinrich Philipp Franz Albers . Two daughters died unmarried; their gravestones can be found in the Hanover garden cemetery .

His sons had Hoppenstedt erect a memorial in Seelze.

Fonts

History of the upbringing and lessons I give to my children. In: Hanoverian magazine . Vol. 10, 1772, 1st piece, pp 1-14 ( Digitalisat the UB Bielefeld ).
Contemplation of the house cross on the occasion of the unexpected death of the young Baron Carl Asche von Mahrenholtz. Meyer, 1775 Braunschweig (sermon; Digitalisat the SUB ).
Religious lectures. Schmidt, Hanover 1776.

Review. In: Johann Christoph Adelung : General directory of new books, with short notes and a learned scoreboard. Vol. 2, 1777, 7th part, p. 802 f .; Review. In: Appendix to the fifth and twentieth volume of the general German library . 1st department, p. 168 f.

Jesus and his contemporaries. 3 vol. Pockwitz, Hanover 1784–1786.

Review of vol. 1. In: Nürnbergische learned newspaper. Nürnberg 1784, pp. 718-720; Further reviews: to Bd. 1. In: Göttingische displays of learned things . Vol. 3, Göttingen 1784, 201st piece, p. 2010 f .; to vol. 1. In: General library of the newest German theological literature. Vol. 5, Quedlinburg 1785, pp. 3-14; to vol. 1 and 2. In: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . No. 197, August 20, 1785, pp. 205 f .; to vol. 1 and 2. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek . Vol. 69, 1786, 1st piece, p. 344 f .; to vol. 2. In: Göttingische advertisements of learned things. Vol. 1, Göttingen 1786, 25th part, p. 245; to vol. 3. In: Gothaische learned newspapers . Gotha 1787, 69th piece, p. 562 f.

literature

Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Hoppenstedt (Wilhelm Johann Julius). In: ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers. 2 vol., Schünemann, Bremen 1823, vol. 2, p. 408 .
August Wilhelm Knauer: Dr. Aug. Ludw. Hoppenstedts because. Abts to Loccum and Cosistor. Vicedirectors for Hanover, life and work. In addition to a diary of the immortalized about the war events in and around Harburg in the years 1813 and 1814. Depicted by his son-in-law, AW Knauer, city preacher of Celle. Hahn, Hanover 1831, p. 2 f.
W. Menke: Wilhelm Johann Julius Hoppenstedt. In: Municipal newspaper of the garden church Hanover. Vol. 14, 1938, No. 3, p. 4 f. (with Hoppenstedt's silhouette).
Wolfgang Ollrog (edit.): Lower Saxony gender book. Vol. 143. Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1967, p. 338 (there incorrectly Groß Schwülper as the place of death).
Rixa Nicolay-Hoppenstedt, Franz Schimpf: Regimental Quartermaster Martin Hoppenstedt (approx. 1631–1690) and his family. In: Heimatblätter for the south-western edge of the Harz. Vol. 36, 1980, pp. 29-38, here p. 36 (with wrong date of death, 29 September).
Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: The Hoppenstedt brothers in Celle and Hanover after 1815. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . Vol. 55, 2001/2002, pp. 165-174, here pp. 170 f.

Web links

Entry on the person in the genealogy network (excerpt from the Verden local family book)
Matthias Hoyer: The pastors of Seelz from the Middle Ages to the present day on the website of the St. Martin parish, 1997

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hoppenstedt, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 620 f. ( Digitized version ). (Mentioned in the genealogy of the son Georg, p. 620).
↑ Carl Brandt: Schwülper - A piece of Lower Saxony home history. Self-published, Hildesheim 1912. Quoted from Nicolay-Hoppenstedt, Schimpf, p. 36, without page number.
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d ^e Rixa Nicolay-Hoppenstedt, Franz Schimpf: Regimental Quartermaster Martin Hoppenstedt (approx. 1631-1690) and his family. In: Heimatblätter für den south-western Harzrand 36 (1980), pp. 29–38, here p. 36.
↑ See Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , 2 vol., Göttingen 1941/42, vol. 2, p. 422 (there, however, with the wrong date of birth and ibid., P. 364, with the wrong Date of death).
↑ The years for Groß Schwülper come from Philipp Meyer: The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation. 2 vol., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1941/42, vol. 1, p. 374, and for Hanover by ibid., P. 424, as well as by Hans Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, p. 311 .
↑ George Wesley Buchanan: Introduction. In: Hermann Samuel Reimarus: Goal of Jesus and His Disciples. Leiden 1970, pp. 1–32, here p. 21 .
↑ ^a ^b Review of the third volume . In: Gothaische learned newspapers. Gotha 1787, 69th piece, p. 562 f.
^ Friedrich Nicolai: General German library . Vol. 85, 1789, 2nd part, p. 621 .
↑ Copulated. In: Braunschweigische advertisements. Vol. 12, 1756, Part 88, Col. 1492.
^ Message from Pastor Steinhöfel zu Wake near Göttingen, about the work school established by Wake on November 30, 1786. In: Ludwig Gerhard Wagemann (Ed.): Göttingisches Magazin für Industrie und Armenpflege. Vol. 1, 1789, pp. 44-63 (digitized version ) ; Gottfried August Bürger : Letters from and to Gottfried August Bürger. A contribution to the literary history of its time. Edited by Adolf Strodtmann . Vol. 3: Letters from 1780–1789. Paetel, Berlin 1874, p. 3, note 1 .

^ August Wilhelm Knauer: Dr. Aug. Ludw. Hoppenstedts because. Abts to Loccum and Cosistor. Vicedirectors for Hanover, life and work. In addition to a diary of the immortalized about the war events in and around Harburg in the years 1813 and 1814. Depicted by his son-in-law, AW Knauer, city preacher of Celle. Hahn, Hanover 1831, p. 3.

personal data
SURNAME	Hoppenstedt, Wilhelm Johann Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 14, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1788
Place of death	Seelze

[Röhrbein-1] A ^b Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hoppenstedt, Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 620 f. ( Digitized version ). (Mentioned in the genealogy of the son Georg, p. 620).

[2] Carl Brandt: Schwülper - A piece of Lower Saxony home history. Self-published, Hildesheim 1912. Quoted from Nicolay-Hoppenstedt, Schimpf, p. 36, without page number.

[Harz-3] A ^b ^c ^d ^e Rixa Nicolay-Hoppenstedt, Franz Schimpf: Regimental Quartermaster Martin Hoppenstedt (approx. 1631-1690) and his family. In: Heimatblätter für den south-western Harzrand 36 (1980), pp. 29–38, here p. 36.

[4] See Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , 2 vol., Göttingen 1941/42, vol. 2, p. 422 (there, however, with the wrong date of birth and ibid., P. 364, with the wrong Date of death).

[5] The years for Groß Schwülper come from Philipp Meyer: The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation. 2 vol., Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1941/42, vol. 1, p. 374, and for Hanover by ibid., P. 424, as well as by Hans Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, p. 311 .

[6] George Wesley Buchanan: Introduction. In: Hermann Samuel Reimarus: Goal of Jesus and His Disciples. Leiden 1970, pp. 1–32, here p. 21 .

[Gotha-7] Review of the third volume . In: Gothaische learned newspapers. Gotha 1787, 69th piece, p. 562 f.

[8] Friedrich Nicolai: General German library . Vol. 85, 1789, 2nd part, p. 621 .

[9] Copulated. In: Braunschweigische advertisements. Vol. 12, 1756, Part 88, Col. 1492.

[10] Message from Pastor Steinhöfel zu Wake near Göttingen, about the work school established by Wake on November 30, 1786. In: Ludwig Gerhard Wagemann (Ed.): Göttingisches Magazin für Industrie und Armenpflege. Vol. 1, 1789, pp. 44-63 (digitized version ) ; Gottfried August Bürger : Letters from and to Gottfried August Bürger. A contribution to the literary history of its time. Edited by Adolf Strodtmann . Vol. 3: Letters from 1780–1789. Paetel, Berlin 1874, p. 3, note 1 .

[11] August Wilhelm Knauer: Dr. Aug. Ludw. Hoppenstedts because. Abts to Loccum and Cosistor. Vicedirectors for Hanover, life and work. In addition to a diary of the immortalized about the war events in and around Harburg in the years 1813 and 1814. Depicted by his son-in-law, AW Knauer, city preacher of Celle. Hahn, Hanover 1831, p. 3.