Hans Lassen Martensen

Hans Lassen Martensen ( born August 9, 1808 in Flensburg, † February 4, 1884 in Copenhagen) was a Danish theologian and Lutheran bishop.

Life

Martensen's father, the sailor and later writers Hans Andersen Martensen († 1822), moved in 1817 to Copenhagen, where Martensen attended high school in Nørrebro and studied Protestant theology since 1827. A particularly influential teacher was Henrik Nicolai Clausen.

His trip abroad from 1834 to 1836 led him to Berlin ( heard at Philipp Konrad Marheineke and Henrich Steffens ), Heidelberg (Karl Daub; depression in Meister Eckhart and Dante ), Munich ( Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Franz Xaver von Baader ), Vienna ( friendship poet Nikolaus Lenau, from which the treatise on Lenau's Faust (1836 ) arose, Martensen first font ) and Paris ( meeting with the Danish writer Johan Ludvig Heiberg and his wife, Johanne Luise Heiberg the actress ). On a later trip to Kiel ( 1839) learned Martensen Isaak August Dorner, with whom he should be from now on in lively correspondence.

Back in Copenhagen he received his doctorate in 1837 for the licentiate of theology, in 1838 and 1840 Lecturer Associate Professor. Here are his influential textbooks on moral philosophy and dogmatic theology, with whom he became a major representative of the mediating theology emerged. In 1845 he was ( part-time ) of King Christian VIII appointed court chaplain and moved on in 1850 to full professor. Since 1854 until his death he served as Bishop of Zealand ( Sjælland ) and thus Primate of the ( Lutheran ) Danish People's Church.

Martensen's funeral sermon for his predecessor in the episcopate Jacob Peter Mynster, in which he referred to this as " irreplaceable " Bishop and "real witness to the truth ," Søren Kierkegaard led to his recent sharp attack on the Danish state church. A fierce opponent of Martensen was also living in Copenhagen Icelandic theologian Magnús Eiriksson ( 1806-1881 ).

Major works

  • De Autonomia conscientiae sui Humanae, in theologiam dogmaticam nostri temporis introducta. Licentiatdisputats. . Copenhagen 1837 (Danish: Den menneskelige Selvbevidstheds autonomy i dogmatiske before Tids theology Copenhagen 1841 dt: .. Autonomy of human self-consciousness in the dogmatic theology of our time Kiel 1844. ).
  • Grundrids til Moralphilosophiens system. Copenhagen 1841. 3rd edition, 1879.
  • The christe celled Daab betragtet med Hensyn paa det baptistiske Spørgsmaal. Copenhagen 1843. (German: Christian Baptism Gotha 1844 2nd edition 1860.. ).
  • The christe celled dogmatics.. Copenhagen 1849 4th Edition 1881 (English: The Christian dogmatics 3rd Edition Leipzig, 1886. ).. .
  • Til Erindring om J. P. Mynster. Copenhagen 1855.
  • The christe celled ethics. 2 vols. Copenhagen 1871-1878. (German: Christian ethics 5th edition 2 volumes Karlsruhe 1887.. . ).
  • Katholicisme above Protestantisme. Et leilighedsskrift. Copenhagen 1874.
  • Af with LevNet. Meddelelser. Autobiography. 3 volumes. Copenhagen 1882-1883 ( dt: . Out of My Life 3 volumes of Karlsruhe from 1883 to 1884. ).
  • Correspondence with Isaac August Dorner. 2 vols. Berlin 1887.
  • Collection of sermons. Gotha 1859.
  • Jacob Bohme. Leipzig 1882.
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