Julius Wegscheider

Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider ( born September 27, 1771 in Küblingen; † January 27, 1849 in Halle ( Saale) ), was a Protestant theologian and the most important dogmatic theology of rationalism.

Life

Wegscheider studied theology at the University of Helmstedt in the known theology professor Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke and was then tutor to a family in Hamburg ( 1795-1805 ). In 1805 he was Repetent at the University of Göttingen in 1806 and took a position at the University of Rinteln as a professor of theology and philosophy at.

In this role, Wegscheider 1810 moved to the University of Halle, where the rationalist was reprimanded as alleged Verspotter of Christianity in 1830 by the government. Trigger for this process was a public denunciation by Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach, among other things, had taken place in the "Protestant Church newspaper".

Wegscheider has been added at the instigation of the Brunswick Lodge in 1795 in the Masonic Lodge Hamburg Ferdinand to the rock; In 1815 he joined the lodge to the three swords in Halle. He was an honorary member of the Grand Lodge of Hamburg and Honorary Master of the Grand National Mother Lodge "One of the Three Globes ".

At the age of 77 years, Julius Wegscheider died on January 27, 1849 in Halle and found his final resting place.

Works (selection)

• De Graecorum mysteriis religioni non obtrudendis. Röwer, Göttingen, 1805.
• Institutiones theologicae christianae dogmaticae. Edition " Culture & Civilisation", Brussels, 1981 ( Nachdr d ed Leipzig 1815).
• About as required by the latest philosophy separation of morality from religion. Edition " Culture & Civilisation" 1969 ( Nachdr d ed Hamburg 1804).
• Attempt a complete introduction to the Gospel of John. Röwer, Göttingen 1806.