Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker

Carl Heinrich von Weizsäcker ( born December 11, 1822 in Öhringen; † August 13, 1899 in Tübingen) was a Protestant theologian.

Life and work

Carl Heinrich Weizsäcker studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen. At first he was chaplain at the Württemberg court King William I. From 1861 he was professor of church and history of dogma at the University of Tübingen and took over the chair of his teacher, Ferdinand Christian Baur. In 1890, Weizsäcker was Chancellor of his university and remained so until his death. Virtue of his office as Chancellor of the University of Tübingen, he was from 1890 until 1899, the Second Chamber of the Württemberg Landtag.

Weizsäcker was a leading proponent of the historical-critical school. His major work is The apostolic age of the Christian church. He was a member of the 1840 Tuebingen Royal Society Roigel.

Honors

Family

Carl Heinrich Weizsäcker comes from the Palatine- Württemberg Gender Weizsäcker. He was the son of the widowed Sophie Weizsäcker born Rössle (1796-1864), who had married in 1816 Christian Ludwig Friedrich Weizsäcker ( 1785-1831 ). This was a pastor and preacher pin in the Hohenlohe residence Öhringen and came from the second marriage of the Prince's mouth Koch Gottlieb Jacob Weizsäcker. His brother was the historian Julius Weizsäcker ( 1828-1889 ).

Weizsäcker was married since 1848 to Auguste Sophie Dahm ( 1824-1884 ). The two had three children:

• Sophie ( * 1850, † after 1910 ) ∞ 1875 Adolf Bilfinger ( 1846-1902 ), court preacher, three sons
• Karl von Weizsäcker (1853-1926), politician Württemberg
• Marie (1857-1939) ∞ 1875 Paul von Bruns ( 1846-1916 ), surgeon, professor of medicine, two sons

Works

• Studies on the gospel history, their sources and the course of its development. Better, Gotha 1864 digitized in the Google Book Search, 2nd Edition, Mohr ( Siebeck ), Tübingen and Leipzig 1901 ( digitized in the Google Book Search )
• Teachers and teaching at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen: from the Reformation to the present. Fues, Tübingen 1877 ( Fourth Säcularfeier the University of Tübingen in the summer of 1877: Fixed program of the Evangelical Theological Faculty ) ( digitized in the Google Book Search )