Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke

Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke ( born February 22, 1804 in Helmstedt, † December 1, 1872 in Marburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Henke was born as the youngest son of church historian Heinrich Henke in Helmstedt. After the early death of his father to his pupil and biographer, Bollmann and Wolff, both teachers at the Helmstedt Pädagogium, vibrant and talented boys attended until he moved into 1817, the gymnasium of his native city and in 1820 the Collegium Carolinum in Brunswick. In Göttingen, where he from five semesters studied theology and philosophy from Easter 1822, he joined Gottlieb Jakob Planck and Bouterwek and learned the supportive influence of the sermons of the Superintendent Christian Friedrich Rupert ( 1765-1836 ). He became in 1822 a member of the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen. In Jena had since autumn 1824 preferably Jakob Friedrich Fries and Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten - Crusius his teachers.

The Doctor of Philosophy in March 1826 was followed in the following year the theological habilitation on the basis of a dissertation: " De Epistolae quarterly Barnabae tribuitur authentia " and in 1828, an appointment as professor at the Collegium Carolinum to Brunswick, where Henke, on theological encyclopedia Church History, Introduction to the Old and New Testaments, through logic and history of philosophy lectured. After beginning in 1833 used fourth -round vacation to hear Friedrich Schleiermacher and August Neander in Berlin, he went in the fall as an associate professor of church history and exegesis to Jena, where he, in Betty Fries, the daughter of his old friend and teacher, the companion was. Three years later he returned as a consistory and director of the Seminary of Wolfenbüttel in the home. Although he was offered the latter position anew the desired opportunity to keep exegetical lectures, to conduct the practical exercises of the candidates and to preach occasionally, but the church regiment union administrative business of the Consistory were a heavy burden.

Thus, the appeal appeared to him a full professor of theology in Marburg as an exemption, although they definitely separated him again and that this time of the home. For the autumn 1839 Henke, the Hessian State University continuously for 33 years, almost half his life belongs. Next to the church history that he, since his death recited initially alongside Frederick William Rettberg alone and that in dreisemestrigem Turnus, he kept constantly in homiletics and liturgy and the introduction to the study of theology as teaching subjects. In addition to the homiletic firm he headed since Hermann Hupfelds departure in 1843 as Ephorus nor the Fellows Institute and was second, first since 1848 University Librarian since 1846. 1845/46 he served as rector of the university.

His son was the Marburg, Rostock, Prague and Tübingen medicine professor and writer Philipp Jakob Wilhelm Henke ( 1834-1896 ).

Works

• Jakob Friedrich Fries. Berlin 1937 (2nd edition).
• Georg Calixtus ' correspondence. In a selection of Wolfenbüttel 's manuscripts. Ann Arbor, 1980 ( reprint ).
• Petri Abaelardi Sic et non primum integrum. Frankfurt 1981 ( reprint ).