Wilhelm Ludwig Krafft
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Krafft ( Guilelmus Ludovicus Krafft ) (born September 8, 1821 in Cologne , † January 7, 1897 in Bonn ) was professor of theology in Bonn.
Life
His parents were the Cologne consistorial councilor Johann Gottlob Krafft and his second wife Louise, nee. Vorster (1797–1864). Of the seven siblings, apart from his half-brother Karl Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Krafft, only his two sisters Maria (1828–1911) and Elise Bernhardine Christine Anna (1829–1901) reached adulthood. He attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne and graduated from high school there in 1839. From 1839 to 1844 he then studied theology in Bonn and Berlin. In Bonn he joined the Corps Rhenania . After graduating, he went on a study trip through various regions of Germany and Greece, visiting the grave of Winckelmann, who was murdered in 1767, in Trieste , Italy , and traveling by ship to the African continent. The fifth and last letter to his mother came from "Cairo, Egypt". In 1846 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the topography (cartography) of Jerusalem. From 1850 he worked in Bonn as an associate professor and from 1860 as a full professor of theology, where he was best known for his work as head of the Protestant theological seminar in Bonn . In 1866/67 he was the rector of the university. In 1881 he was appointed consistorial councilor for the Rhine Province. Because of his extraordinary services to the Protestant theological seminar in Bonn , he became an honorary philistine of the Bonn Wingolf . In Bonn's southern part of the city , Krafft had a villa built (Weberstrasse 57) according to plans by the city architect Paul Richard Thomann .
Marriage and children
He married Frieda (actually Friderike ) (1828–1906), the daughter of Friedrich von Scheibler junior. (1803–1828) and Dorothee, geb. Pastor from Aachen:
- Friedrich Krafft (1852–1923) became a chemist
- Emil Krafft (* 1854); became a doctor in Stuttgart
- Maria Krafft (* 1861); remained unmarried
- another descendant (born June 2, 1869), possibly Albert Krafft, chemist.
Works
- The topography of Jerusalem
- The church history of the Germanic peoples. Vol. 1 Division 1: The beginnings of the Christian church among the Germanic peoples In two volumes
- The German Bible before Luther, his relationship to it and his services to the German translation of the Bible
- Church conditions in the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway, Sweden ; with Moritz Luettke
- Letters and documents from the time of the Reformation in the 16th century along with communications about Cologne scholars and studies in the 15th and 16th centuries ; Elberfeld 1876; together with Wilhelm Ludwig Krafft. Digitized edition
literature
- Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog . Volume 4, Reimer, Berlin 1900
- Walter Troxler: Krafft, Wilhelm Ludwig. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 587-588.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Protestant pastors in the Rhineland from the Reformation to the present , vol. 3 (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History, vol. 175). Habelt, Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-7749-4020-8 , p. 153 (sv Johann Gottlob Krafft).
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 15/280
- ^ Vademecum Wingolfiticum. Mühlheim i. Thuringia 1908. p. 54.
- ^ Gerhard Kirchlinne: The Bonn Südstadt: One of the most splendid Wilhelminian style quarters in Germany . Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050248-4 , p. 32.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Ludwig Krafft in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krafft, Wilhelm Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1821 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 7, 1897 |
| Place of death | Bonn |