Wilhelm Münscher

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Wilhelm Münscher (born March 15, 1766 in Hersfeld , † July 28, 1814 in Marburg ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Wilhelm Münscher, the son of the metropolitan and first preacher Philipp Georg Münscher (1707–1789), came from a Hessian pastor's family that had lived in Hersfeld since the 14th century. Relatives to the Grimm family existed through his father, who had been married to Charlotta Wilhelmina Grimm (1722–1764) for the first time. Friedrich Grimm (1707–1777), the grandfather of the Brothers Grimm , was his uncle. Philipp Georg Münscher was married to Katharina Elisabeth Funck († 1807), the daughter of the orientalist Johann Joachim Schröder and widow of the Marburg philologist Johann Nicolaus Funck (1715–1758).

Wilhelm Münscher studied Protestant theology in Marburg from 1781 to 1784 and then worked as a clergyman in his home town; initially as an adjunct of his father, since 1789 as a preacher. In 1792 he was appointed full professor of theology at the University of Marburg. With this office came the appointment as consistorial councilor and reformed inspector. From 1811 until his death Münscher was also director of the Philosophical Seminar. He turned down a call from the newly founded Berlin University (1810). For the year 1813/1814 he was elected rector of the University of Marburg.

Münscher accompanied his academic teaching activities with the publication of various handbooks and treatises on dogma and church history, some of which appeared in several editions. His sermons from 1803–1813 also appeared in print. Münscher also earned great merit through his commitment to reforming teacher training in Hesse: the establishment of the school teacher seminar at the University of Marburg was based on his initiative. He discontinued his educational magazine ( magazine for church and school systems in Hesse and the neighboring countries , 1803) after only three issues.

From his marriage with Christiane Jakobine Hartert, who was born in Hersfeld, in 1790, there were three sons in addition to a daughter: the grammar school director Wilhelm Münscher (1795–1872), the lawyer and Kassel appellate judge Karl Münscher (1800–1848) and the grammar school director and Hessian local historian Friedrich Münscher (1805-1893).

Fonts

  • Handbook of the Christian history of dogma. Vol. 1–3, Neue akad. Buchhandlung, Marburg 1797–1802 ( digitized, vol. 1 ; vol. 2 ; vol. 3 ).
  • Textbook of Christian Church History. Prepared for use in lectures. New acad. Bookstore, Marburg 1804; 2nd probable edition, ed. by Ludwig Wachler . Krieger, Marburg 1815 ( digitized version ).
  • Textbook of the Christian history of dogma. New acad. Bookstore, Marburg 1811 ( digitized version ); 2nd probably edition Krieger, Marburg / Kassel 1819 ( digitized version ).

literature

Web links

Münscher, Wilhelm , in: Hessian Biography.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer Story , Vol. 18, ed. by Karl Wilhelm Justi . Bayrhoffer, Marburg 1819, p. 408.
  2. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Münscher, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Hersfeld
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1814
Place of death Marburg