Friedrich Gottlieb Süskind

Friedrich Gottlieb Süskind ( born February 17, 1767 in New City on the Kocher, † November 12, 1829 in Stuttgart ) was an Evangelical- Lutheran theologian.

Life

Suskind was from 1798 professor and early preacher in Tübingen, later 2nd Superattendent at Tubingen. In 1805 he became court preacher ( until 1814 ) and the consistory in 1814 also director of Upper study Directorate. At the liturgical reform (1809 ) in Württemberg, which was designed by Enlightenment ideas, he was instrumental.

Suskind is considered the " dialecticians " the older Tübingen School, which had been founded by his teacher Christian Gottlob Storr, at the same time as well as their apologist against the philosophers Kant, Fichte, and Schelling. On the basis of Kant's critique of reason he founded the belief in revelation in the sense of supernaturalism.

Besides Süskind Johann Friedrich Flatt, Carl Christian von Flatt, Ernst Gottlieb Bengel, Johann Christian Friedrich Steudel and others are expected to the older Protestant Tübingen School, in contrast to the enlightenment and rationalism was characterized by a supernaturalism and " the Holy Scriptures as by divine authority certified [ and ] made ​​the starting point and the foundation of all theological judgment in self-consistent revelation. "

One of his cousins ​​was the ancestor of the baronial house Susskind, the Augsburg banker Johann Gottlieb Susskind.

Works

• About the law of reason in regard to the negative determination of Revelation ( 1797)
• In what sense Jesus has claimed the divinity of his religion and morals? (1802 )
• About the Pestalozzi's method and its implementation in the elementary schools (1810 )
• As editor: Magazine of dogmatic theology and morality (1803-1816)