Alexander von Oettingen

Alexander Konstantin von Oettingen (*. Dezemberjul 12 / 24 December 1827greg on Good Wissust (Estonian:. .. Visusti ) at Dorpat; † Augustjul 8 / 21 August 1905greg in Dorpat ) was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and thinker in social ethics professor at the University of Dorpat and Imperial Russian Real State Council.

Family

Alexander von Oettingen was born into an old, originally from Westphalia noble family and was the son of the landowner Alexander von Oettingen (1798-1846), a Livonian land marshal and chief administrative officer, and Helene von Knorring ( 1793-1863 ).

Oettingen married his first marriage on May 8, 1853 in Erlangen Sophie Raumer ( born January 16, 1826 in Erlangen, † January 5, 1863 in Tartu ), the daughter of the royal Prussian mining council Karl Georg von Raumer, professor of natural sciences at the University of Erlangen, and Friederike Reichard.

His second wife he married on 7 March 1865, the widowed Bertha Ewers (* December 6, 1818, † April 4, 1913 in Dorpat, from Russian nobility ), the daughter of the rector of the University of Dorpat Gustav Ewers, Professor of History and the State - and international law, and Dorothea von Maydell.

He was a brother of the physician Georg von Oettingen and the physicist Arthur von Oettingen. Three other brothers, August Georg Friedrich (1823-1908), Nicolai Conrad Peter (1826-1876) and Eduard Reinhold (1829-1919), were active in the Livonian state politics.

Life

After visiting the Krümmerschen private institution in Werro 1837 to 1845 he studied theology at Dorpat until 1849, the only Lutheran theological faculty of the Russian Empire. After his exam candidates on June 19, 1850 was followed by further studies in Erlangen ( with Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann ), Berlin, Bonn (with Albrecht Ritschl ) and Rostock. After his Master's Doctorate in Dorpat with the treatise The hope of Israel in the light of the Scriptures on December 3, 1853 was followed on 17 April 1854, the appointment as Assistant Professor, after finishing his PhD doctoral work with De peccato in Spiritum Sanctum on May 7, 1854, the appointment as associate professor of dogmatic theology and theological ethics on 5 June 1856 as full professor on September 7, 1856. 1873 to 1875 he was Dean of the Faculty of Theology. From 1861 to 1862 he left Dorpat and taught as religion and singing teacher at a private high school in Merano, where he founded the first Lutheran church in Tyrol. In 1888 he founded the Alexander asylum for unemployed artisans. In 1890 his retirement, but he led from 1889 to 1902 still an elementary school for poor children.

While Oettingen itself is now largely forgotten, the coined term from him has kept Social Ethics in the language of science.

Publications (selection)

  • The synagogue Elegik the people of Israel. Dorpat 1853.
  • De peccato in spiritum sanctum. Dorpat in 1856.
  • A Lutheran church consecration and the confessional movement in Tyrol. In: Dorpat Journal for Theology and the Church. Volume 4, 1862.
  • The rebirth through infant baptism. In: Dorpat Journal for Theology and the Church. Volume 4, 1862, Volume 5, 1863.
  • The latest manifestations of religious Progress Party in Germany. In: Dorpat Journal for Theology and the Church. Volume 5, 1863.
  • To preserve the " two natures " against the modern Monophysitism. In: Dorpat Journal for Theology and the Church. Volume 9, 1867.
  • The moral statistics in their scientific importance for a social ethics. In: Dorpat Journal for Theology and the Church. Volume 9, 1867.
  • The moral statistics and its importance for social ethics. 2 volumes, Erlangen, 1868, 3rd edition, 1882.
  • The moral statistics and the Christian moral teaching. In 1873.
  • System of Christian ethics. 2 volumes, Erlangen 1874.
  • Ultra Anti Montana. Erlangen 1876.
  • True and false authority with regard to the present time conditions. Leipzig 1878.
  • For inspiration question. Riga 1878.
  • Mandatory and optional civil marriage, according to the results of moral statistics. A word for peace. Leipzig 1881.
  • Christian religious education on rich historical basis. Erlangen 1885.
  • What's the Christian- social?. Leipzig 1886.
  • To duel question. Dorpat 1889.
  • Lutheran dogmatics. 3 vols, Munich ( Volume 1 Principi teaching in 1897, Volume 2 system of Christian truth of salvation Part 1, 1900, Part 2, 1902).
  • House and home. In: Baltic memoirs, ed. v. Alexander Eggers, Heilbronn 1926, pp. 169-182 ( autobiographical representation).
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