Christoph Friedrich von Ammon

Friedrich Christoph Ammon, ( born 16 January 1766 in Bayreuth, † May 21, 1850 in Dresden) from 1824 of Ammon was a German Protestant theologian and an important representative of the rationalistic supernaturalism.

Family

Ammon came from a Lower Austrian nobility, which had been collected in 1594 in the knightly imperial nobility and its safe master series with the sculptor Wolfgang Ammon († 1655) in Loos Village (Lower Austria ) starts, and was the son of the Bayreuth Chamber Council Philip Michael Paul Ammon ( 1738-1812 ) and Eleonore Marie Eusebia Griesshammer ( 1745-1821 ).

Ammon married in first marriage on 31 January 1790 in Erlangen Elisabetha Breyer. From this marriage came two sons, Friedrich von Ammon, theologian and Dean of the Theological Faculty of Erlanger, and the ophthalmologist August von Ammon. His second wife Ammon married on June 19, 1823 in Dresden Marianne Becker.

Ammon received on 28 November 1824 in Dresden, the Saxon nobility renewal.

Career

Ammon 1789 was appointed professor of philosophy, then appointed in 1790 for theology in Erlangen. In 1794 he was appointed professor at the Georg-August -Universität Göttingen. In 1804 he returned to Erlangen. He received in 1813 the office of Oberhof preacher and was Oberkonsistorialrat in Dresden. In 1831, Ammon became a member of the Ministry of Culture and Vice President of the Upper Consistory.

Theologically represents Ammon in his works draft Biblical Theology ( 3 vols, 1801) and Summa Theologia Christiana ( 1803), a historical-critical rationalism, which is based on Immanuel Kant. Only in Bitter medicine for the weakness of faith of our time (1817 ) Ammon is the defender of originating from the revival and leading into the Neuluthertum theses Claus Harms ', for which he is attacked by Friedrich Schleiermacher sharp.

From 1830 to Ammon finds again the ( historical-critical ) rationalism - as in the 4th edition of the Summa, in the development of Christianity to the world Religion ( 4 vols, 1836-1840 ), in the Handbook of Christian ethics ( 3 vols, 1838), in the history of the life of Jesus ( 3 vols, 1842-1847 ) and in the true and the false orthodoxy (1849 ).

He was a member of the Dresden Masonic Lodge to three swords.

Christoph Friedrich Ammon died in May 1850 in Dresden and was buried in the cemetery Elias. According to him, the Environweg between the main station and the railway station was renamed in 1855 in Dresden center in Ammon Road.