Friedrich Christoph Oetinger

Friedrich Christoph Oetinger ( born 2 May 1702 Göppingen, † February 10, 1782 in Murrhardt ) was a German theologian and leading proponent of Württemberg Pietism.

Life

As a student of theology in the Protestant Foundation Tübingen met Oetinger the writings of Jakob Böhme 1725, with whom he henceforth occupied himself intensively. He was also in his respect for the Bible decisively influenced by Johann Albrecht Bengel, which came into his field of vision at the same time. After studying Oetinger made ​​an extensive tour of Germany, where he took first access to Kabbalah in Frankfurt. In Herrnhut he learned the work of the young Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf know. In April 1731 Oetinger Repetent in Tubingen. After a journey Zinzendorf to Württemberg in 1733 Oetinger traveled again for a long time in the Upper Lusatia. Following is a brief Lecturer in Hall ( 1736), ere Oetinger long internal struggle decided for or against a pastorate in Württemberg: In the spring of 1738 he became pastor in Hirsau in Calw and married in the same year Christiana Dorothea lens man from Urach (today Bad Urach ).

In order to be near his revered teacher Johann Albrecht Bengel, can Oetinger moved in 1743 to the pastorate Schnaitheim in Heidenheim. In 1746 he became pastor at Forest village ( near Tübingen ), before he became in 1752 pastor of Vineyard and Special Superintendent (Dean ) of the church district vineyard. In 1759 he became pastor and special superintendent in Herrenberg, 1765 ( appointment; Appointed 1766 ) pastor in Murrhardt (which was under the Special Superintendent in Backnang), at the same time Abbot and Prelate of the ( Protestant ) monastery Murrhardt, to Ducal Council and landscape deputy.

Throughout his life the man with diverse interests was controversial. So let the Stuttgart Consistory ( church leadership ) seize all copies of his works of Swedenborg and other Irrdische and heavenly philosophy from 1765 in March 1766. Oetinger defended in Swedenborg's conception of the realm of spirits, but distanced himself in the following years of its allegorical, too little ' bodily ' interpretation of the Apocalypse of John. Even compared to Johann Albrecht Bengel's not unusual ' spiritual' interpretive exegesis of the apocalypse and against Oetinger erstwhile Mr. Berger Vicar Philipp Matthäus Hahn, the first of a long time followed Bengels interpretation, Oetinger pointed to his Biblical realism now. He found in his work Biblical and Emblematic dictionary ( Heilbronn am Neckar 1776, p 407) to the famous phrase: " corporeality is the end of God's works, like the City of God clearly erhellet [ ... ]. " Oetinger thinking is - even in the enlightenment critical attitude - related to that of Johann Georg Hamann: " Hamann as Oetinger it comes to the unity of history and nature to think, given the threat to the tradition and in the face of science, quantified as modern science natural and experimental in the insulation to the object makes. Both aim is that man can not be deprived of the sense of go, he gains in mediation with the tradition ( ...) and that man can be understood as a unity of mind and corporeality, as that with which he is natural. "

Oetinger is attributed to the well-known serenity prayer, but actually comes from Reinhold Niebuhr.

His grave can be found in the town church Murrhardt.

Oetinger has many writers and thinkers such as Christoph Martin Wieland, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (especially the middle and late phase ), Justinus Kerner, Eduard Moerike and Hermann Hesse affected. Even in the library of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a work Oetinger from its Murrhardter time, The Metaphysic in Connexion with the chemistry. Schwäbisch Hall, contains the music-theoretical models.

Works

  • The wall chart of Princess Antonia. Edited by Reinhard Breymayer and Friedrich Häußermann. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1977, ISBN 3-11-004130-8.
  • Theologia ex idea vitae deducta. Edited by Konrad Ohly. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1979, ISBN 3-11-004872-8.
  • Biblical and Emblematic dictionary. Edited by Gerhard Schäfer in conjunction with Otto Betz [ Tübingen ], Reinhard Breymayer, Eberhard [ Martin] Gutekunst, Ursula Meier hardware, Roland Pietsch, Guntram Spindler. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-004903-1.
  • Friedrich Christoph Oetinger: autobiography. Genealogy of the real thoughts of theologians. Provided ed. and with introduction by J. Roessle. Franz, Metzingen, 1990, ISBN 3-7722-0035-4.

Remembrance

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