Gotthard Victor Lechler

Gotthard Victor Lechler ( born April 18, 1811 in Reichenbach Monastery near Freudenstadt, † December 26, 1888 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant theologian. He was superintendent and professor in Leipzig and an ex officio member of the First Chamber of the Saxon parliament.

Life and work

After he had received from his father, the priest Viktor Heinrich Lechler an elementary teaching, Lechler came in 1825 in the lower Seminar in Blaubeuren. 1829 moved to the Tübingen Seminary, where he earned a degree in theology and philosophy from 1831 to 1834 and with a double PhD and Dr. theol. completed. He then became a Vicariate in Dettingen unter Teck, but was in 1835 Repetent the seminar in Blaubeuren and joined in 1838 as such to the theological pen in Tübingen. In 1839 he became a deacon in Waiblingen, 1853 he was given the same position in Knittlingen. In 1858 he took over the parish of St. Thomas Church in Leipzig and became superintendent of the fair city. Was associated with this office, a member of the First Chamber of the Saxon parliament, to which he belonged until his retirement in 1883. From 1858 to 1888 he was Professor of Church History at the University of Leipzig. During this time he took over five times the dean's office of the local Faculty of Theology.

Lechler wrote several churches and Reformation history books and worked with the General German Biography. From 1882 to 1888 he was editor of the contributions of Saxon church history.

Honors

Lechler was a spiritual privy. From the University of Göttingen, he received an honorary doctorate in theology. h c. appointed. In addition, he was appointed a Knight of the Royal Saxon Order of Merit.

Works

  • History of English deism, Tübingen 1841.
  • The apostolic and post-apostolic age, the 1851
  • History of Presbyterial and Synodal Constitution, 1854
  • Reformers and martyrs of the Protestant Church in England, 1854
  • Tractatus de officio pastorali, Leipzig 1863
  • John Wycliffe and the history of the Reformation, Leipzig 1873
  • The apostolic and post-apostolic age the. In view of difference and unity in life and doctrine, Karlsruhe and Leipzig 1885
  • Document findings on the history of Christian antiquity, Leipzig 1885-1886
  • John Hus. A life picture of the history of the Reformation, Halle 1889
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