Erik Pontoppidan

Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan, the Yngre ( the Younger ), (born 24 Augustjul / September 3 1698greg in Aarhus, .. † December 20, 1764 in Copenhagen) was a Danish theologian, preacher, historian and author.

Life

Pontoppidan was born as the son of Pastor Ludvig Pontoppidan from a Danish pastor's family. He studied theology at the University of Copenhagen. He then worked as a lecturer in Norway, the Netherlands and England. In 1721 he became tutor of Frederick Charles, who was 1722 Duke of Holstein - Plön, later he was a preacher at the castle Nordborg.

As a pastor, Pontoppidan was from 1726 to 1734 worked in Havnbjerg near Nordborg on Als. During this time he wrote his first writings, in which he defended the Pietism against Lutheran orthodoxy. At the same time his first topographical and historical works, from which decades later his main work, Den Danske Atlas eller congeners - Riget Dannemark arose, which was completed after his death appeared.

In 1734 he was briefly pastor in Hillerød, in the same year he was appointed preacher to the castle of Frederiksborg Castle in Hillerød. Already in 1735 he was appointed Danish court preacher in Copenhagen. In 1738, Pontoppidan was a professor in theology. He was from 1747 to 1755 Bishop of Bergen. Then he founded the Collegium Fredricianum for the care of the real subjects and modern languages ​​. At the University of Copenhagen he was Prokanzler 1755.

The royal commission, he drew up a catechism instruction to knowledge of the truth according to godliness, in a clear statement of Martin Luther's Small Catechism, and a hymnal, the so-called thousand songbook of 1757th Both books put an emphasis on the doctrine of sin and the necessity of repentance and repentance. Through them, Pietism was used in Schleswig -Holstein and Denmark.

Works

  • Dialogus; or interview Severi, Sinceri, and Simplicissimus by religion (1726)
  • Purity of doctrine (1726)
  • Heller faith Mirror ( 1727)
  • Theatrum Daniae veteris et modernae. Bremen 1730.
  • Brief history of the Danish Reformation Church. Lübeck 1734 digitized.
  • Kort Forest Illing af de Velgierninger store. Copenhagen 1736th
  • Everriculum fermenti veteris ( 1736)
  • Evil Proverbs ( 1739 )
  • Marmora Danica selectiora immersive Inscriptionum. Copenhagen 1739-1741.
  • Gesta et vestigia Danorum Extra Daniam. Preuss, Leipzig, Copenhagen 1740/41.
  • Instruction to knowledge of the truth according to godliness, in a clear statement of Martin Luther's Small Catechism, for use in the churches and schools of the Duchy of Schleswig, of the Duchy of Holstein. Altona 1741
  • Annales Ecclesiae danicæ diplomatici. Möller, Copenhagen 1741-1752 digitized.
  • A few erweckliche sermons from the misery of life on Earth and how the same may be helped. Kothert, Bergen in 1749.
  • Glossary norvagicum. Kothert, Bergen in 1749.
  • Det Forste Forsorg paa Norges Nature League history. Copenhagen 1752.
  • Erich Pontoppidan ... try a natural history of Norway. Mumme, Copenhagen, Flensburg 1753-1769.
  • Erich Pontoppidan ... edifying pastoral letters which he wrote to the priests of the Bergisch pin. Berger & Boedner, Rostock, 1754.
  • Menoza, which went around the world to seek Christians. Copenhagen 1759 digitized.
  • The natural history of Norway. Linde, London 1755.
  • Erich Pontoppidan unvorgreifliche concerns about the natural cause of the many and strong earthquakes and unusual weather which we have heard for some time both in and outside Europe. Pelt, Copenhagen 1757 digitized.
  • Erich Pontoppidan power of truth to defeat the atheistic and naturalistic unbelief. Pelt, Copenhagen 1759.
  • Eutropii Philadelphi Oeconomiske balance. Godiche, Copenhagen 1759.
  • Sannleiki Gudhraedslunnar. 1759.
  • Origen Hafnienses eller the kongelige Residentz -Stad Kiøbenhavn, forestillet i sin oprindelige Tilstand. Godiche, Copenhagen in 1760.
  • Den Danske Atlas eller congeners - Riget Dannemark. Copenhagen 1763-1781.
  • Erich Pontoppidan concise messages that natural history relating to Denmark. Rothe & Profft, Copenhagen 1765 ( p.m. ).
  • Erich Pondoppidans written and rational discussion of the immortality of human souls, of their being in the death of their state immediately after death, until at the last judgment. Rothe, Copenhagen 1766 ( p.m. ) digitized.
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