Franz Volkmar Reinhard
Franz Volkmar Reinhard ( born March 12, 1753 Vohenstrauß, Duchy of Pfalz- Sulzbach, † September 6, 1812 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony ) was a Protestant theologian.
Reinhard is an early representative of the theological supernaturalism. In the wake of Hermann Samuel Reimarus he devoted himself to the life of Jesus research.
Life
Reinhard's father was the respected Vohenstrausser preacher Johann Stephen Reinhard, who taught his son to the age of 15 alone. In addition to the Bible, he led him to the ancient languages. With 15 years of Reinhard went to high school in 1768 poeticum to Regensburg. A few days later her father died and a few months later the mother. Through support in Regensburg, he was able to continue his five and a half years of school there.
He graduated from Easter 1773 at the University of Wittenberg and held little success later his first sermon in Dietrichsdorf that surpassed the expectations of him. As at the end of his four- year degree program also his fortune was gone and he wanted to go back to his home, some professors asked him support in prospect if he would habilitate in Wittenberg.
Reinhard remained in Wittenberg and his philological and philosophical lectures won numerous audience. In April 1778, he received the title of co-factors of the philosophical faculty. From 1780 he was professor of theology and philosophy, and from 1790 to 1791 Rector of the University of Wittenberg.
In 1792, Reinhard followed a call to Dresden, where he became court preacher. Reinhard died 1812 in Dresden and was buried on the Johanniskirchhof. In the course of the secularization of the cemetery was transferred to his grave in the cemetery Elias.
Franz Volkmar Reinhard was in his first marriage with Christiana Dorothea Schmid, born Mathesius († 1793) married on February 27, 1794, he married his second wife Ernestine von Charpentier (* November 30, 1776, † March 17, 1829 ), a subsidiary of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Charpentier. His sister Sabina Regina Sophia Reinhard († June 28, 1801 ) married Jacob Franz Theodor Meyer ( born March 4, 1756 in Behlendorf, † January 14, 1828 in nuts ), the Franz Volkmar Reinhard in 1780 earned his Master of Arts. From this marriage a daughter emerged, who married the businessman Joachim Heinrich Höltich.
Works (selection)
- Essay on the plan, which the founder of the Christian religion for the good of mankind designed (1781 )
- Lectures on dogmatics (1801 )
- System of Christian morality ( five volumes, 1802-1816 )
- Confessions of his sermons and his education for preachers concerning (1810 ) digitized
- Causes letters by Reinhard Confessions (1811 ) digitized with Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner
- All sermons (42 volumes, 1815-1821 )