Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider

Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider ( born February 11, 1776 in Gersdorf; † January 22, 1848 in Gotha ) was a German Protestant theologian and an important representative of the Theological rationalism.

Life

Born the son of the pastor in Lichtenberg, Johann Gottlieb Bretschneider and his wife Johanna Christina (born Kuttner ), he lost his parents in the 13th year of life. He was then brought up by his uncle. In 1794 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig. Following his studies he took in 1797 to a private tutor in Oberwiera plate and returned in 1802 in the same capacity in 1802 back to Leipzig. 1804 he received his doctorate and habilitation at the University of Wittenberg, after which he held as a private lectures on philosophy and theology. He decided because of the troubled times of war, pursue an ecclesiastical career, and consequently declined in 1809 appointed professor at the University of Königsberg from. Instead, he went as pastor to Schneeberg and Annaberg. In 1816, he came as a General Superintendent to Gotha, where he was much literary activities until his death.

As a theologian he represented in his writings the standpoint of rational supernaturalism and employed in addition to the dogma of biblical philology. Church policy, he fought the compulsion to confession obligation and thus occupied a union -friendly point of view. As the most important merit of the publication of the works of Philipp Melanchthon in one inaugurated by him Corpus Reformatorum is considered.

Bretschneider was taken on July 19, 1808 in the Masonic Lodge to the three drawing boards in Altenburg; In 1829 he joined the lodge for Ernst compass in Gotha, where he remained until his death.

His son was the lawyer and mathematician Carl Anton Bretschneider.

Selections

  • Systematic development of all occurring in dogmatics terms in 1804
  • Systematic presentation of dogma and morals of the Apocryphal writings of the Old Testament I 1805
  • Manual of Dogmatic Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1814, 1838
  • Probabilia of evangelii et epistolarum Joannis Apostoli indole et origine 1820
  • Sermons on Sundays and feast days, Leipzig 1823
  • Lex Manuale Graeco- Latinum in libros NT 1824
  • Henry and Antonio, or the proselytes of Roman and Protestant Churches. , Gotha 1827
  • Edited: New Gothaisches Hymns for public worship and domestic devotion. Gotha in 1828, the " sheet " of Bretschneider dated October 5, 1825
  • Aphorisms on the question: have if Protestant governments to take action against the rationalism? 1830
  • The Simonism and Christianity: Or beurtheilende representation of the Simonian religion, its relationship to the Christian church and the position of Christianity in our time, Leipzig, Vogel, 1832.
  • The basis of the evangelical pietism 1833
  • Theology and Revolution, 1835
  • Systematic development of all occurring in the dogmatic terms by the Lutheran and Reformed Church and the main doctrinal books of their theologians., Leipzig 1841
  • Clementine, or, the pious and old believers of our day. , Halle 1841
  • The religious doctrine about the reasonableness of revelation 1843
  • The German Reformation of the Church according to its nature and its values ​​, Leipzig 1844
  • For the German Catholics in 1845
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