Gustav Adolf Wislicenus
Gustav Adolf Wislicenus ( born November 20, 1803 in Battaune in a hurry Castle; † October 14, 1875 in Zurich ) was a German Protestant theologian.
From 1821 to 1824 he studied theology at the University of Halle with Professors Wilhelm Gesenius and Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider. He joined in 1821 the general fraternity / Source Society Hall and the federal government in youth and was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment, but pardoned in 1829. He studied at the end of 1834 and was a pastor in small Eichstädt and Gröckstädt in cross- ford. In 1841 he moved to the Neumarkt Church in Halle.
In 1844 he joined the light of friends and held on 29 May 1844 in Köthen his lecture "Whether writing? Whether spirit? " before the rationalist friends ( among them Leberecht Uhlich ) on the authority of the Bible. At the instigation of the theologian Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke is Wislicenus, relieved against the resistance of the Church Council, of his duties. His process he set in Scripture The removal from office of the pastor Wislicenus in Halle ( Leipzig 1846) dar.
After that, he lived as a preacher of the Free church in Halle, but was due to his writing The Bible in the light of the formation of our time (Leipzig 1853), sentenced in September 1853 for blasphemy to two years in prison. The enforcement he eluded by fleeing to the United States of America.
In May 1856 returned to Europe and settled in Fluntern in Zurich, where he published his major work, The Bible, considered for thinking readers.
His son John was Wislicenus chemist in Leipzig. His slightly younger brother Adolf Timothy Wislicenus was also active in the light friends as a clergyman.
Works
- Whether writing? Whether mind? Responsibility to my accusers. Leipzig 1845
- The New Age. 2nd sheet. The old estates and the new parliament. Halberstadt 1848 ( pamphlet )
- The Bible in the light of the formation of our time. Leipzig 1853
- The Bible for thinking readers considered. Leipzig 1863/64,