You are bidding on one handwritten, signed letter of the Protestant theologian, general superintendent of the province of Saxony and Magdeburg cathedral preacher bishop Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke (1774-1849).
Dated Magdeburg, 27. November 1838.
Aimed at the "Mr. Doctor Althaus, well-born in Berlin", di Karl Heinrich Althaus (1806-1886), private lecturer and later professor of philosophy at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.
Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke was related to Karl Heinrich Althaus, because his daughter Julie Dräseke married the general superintendent Georg Friedrich Althaus (1790-1863) in Detmold, a son of the theologian Philipp Heinrich Althaus (1739-1819), a preacher in Blomberg near Detmold. Julie Althaus, b. Dräseke was the mother of Theologian, writer and revolutionary Theodor Althaus (1822-1852).
Transcription: "Thank you, my dear friend, for your participation, for your messages. The day on which you begin your official duties as a lecturer at the university there is a high day of celebration in my heart. I thanked Mr. Krause for his help. You will be welcome if you want to visit us for Christmas. Our Max is coming too. Wilhelm Schollmeyer too, without a doubt. May God prepare happy days for us in His holy community. Dräseke."
Scope: one text page, two blank pages, one address page (22 x 13.4 cm).
format (folded): 8.8 x 13.5 cm.
Condition: Paper browned and slightly stained, with a corner crease. Please also note the pictures!
Internal note: Althaus 2023-3 letters autograph autograph
About Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke (source: wikipedia) and Karl Heinrich Althaus (source: own research):
Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke, usually with his first name Bernhard Dräseke, occasionally written Dräsecke (* 18. January 1774 in Braunschweig; † 8th. December 1849 in Potsdam) was a German Protestant theologian, general superintendent and bishop.
Life: Bernhard Dräseke visited the Martino-Katharineum from 1780. From 1789 to 1792 he attended the academic Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig and then studied theology at the University of Helmstedt from 1792 to 1794. Here he obtained his first theological examination.
After completing his training, he initially took on a job as a private tutor in Ratzeburg for a year. In 1795 he was made a deacon (2. Pastor) at St. Nicolai in Mölln. In 1798 he took over the position of pastor primarius in Mölln. In 1804 he became pastor in St. Georg auf dem Berge near Ratzeburg.
In 1814 he was elected third pastor of the parish of St. Ansgarii in Bremen. His collection of sermons, Germany's Rebirth, published in three volumes in 1814, proclaimed and celebrated through a series of evangelical speeches over the course of the unforgettable year 1813, received both enthusiastic approval and resistance because of its patriotic tone and the demand for a liberal reorganization of Germany after the victory over Napoleon. The Bundestag of the German Confederation complained to the Bremen Senate about Dräseke and his sermons. Dräseke then refrained from further political sermons. He worked in Bremen until 1832 and became an honorary citizen of the city. Dräseke initially campaigned for broad acceptance of the Union idea, but without lasting success.
In 1809 he was accepted into the Lübeck Freemason Lodge Zum Füllhorn. In 1815 he joined the Zum Oelzweig Freemason Lodge, of which he became master of the chair between 1826 and 1829.
He became known nationwide through the distribution of his printed sermons and writings. His collection of sermons, Sermons for Thinking Admirers, obviously served as a template for the homilies for the Sundays of the Catholic church year by the Breslau Cathedral Chapter Heinrich Förster, published in 1845. Ruleman Friedrich Eylert, reformed court preacher and advisor to Friedrich Wilhelm III, won Dräseke as successor to Franz Bogislaus Westermeier as general superintendent of the province of Saxony and cathedral preacher in Magdeburg. At 13th. January 1832, Friedrich Wilhelm III. Dräseke received the personal title “Bishop” because of his positive attitude towards the Union. Dräseke achieved great attention through his pulpit speeches.
However, Dräseke was also criticized for his “episcopal” administration. This found expression in particular in the Magdeburg image dispute, which he conducted primarily with the Magdeburg pastor Wilhelm Franz Sintenis.
Works (selection)
Contributions to improving the liturgy. Herald & election staff, Lüneburg 1802.
Sermons for thinking devotees of Jesus. 5 volumes. Herald & Election Staff, Bremen 1810–1812.
Sermon drafts about freely chosen sayings from the holy scriptures. 2 volumes. Kaiser, Bremen 1815.
On the representation of the saint on the stage: a lecture on September 4th in the Museum in Bremen. Heyse, Bremen 1815
Christ to the generation of this time. Four evangelical lectures in the free community of a free city, at St. Ansgarii in Bremen. Herold & election staff, Bremen 1819
The City of God and the Lions' Den. First addition to the Scripture: Christ to the generation of this time. Herold & election staff, Bremen 1819.
The Prince of Life and his new kingdom. Second addition to the Scripture: Christ to the generation of this time. Herold & election staff, Bremen 1819.
Of the Kingdom of God. Reflections based on Scripture with thinking Christians and to celebrate the Augsburg Confession in the third jubilee year. 3 volumes. Heyse, Bremen 1830.
Words of consecration at the ceremonial unveiling of the new monument to Gustav Adolph on the Lützen battlefield on June 6th. November 1837. Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg 1837
The bishop Dr. Dräseke as a bricklayer. A collection of his lectures and speeches in the lodge. Edited by August Wilhelm Müller. Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg 1852.
Karl Heinrich Althaus was on the 1st. January 1806 in Hanover as the son of Karl Philipp Christian Althaus (* 6. April 1775 in Gehmen, died. 28. March 1869 in Hanover), Protestant Reformed pastor in Hanover from 1805 to 1869, and Friederike, née. Born with a limp.
He received his doctorate in Halle in 1837 (dissertation: "Prolegomena de summo in literarum studio fine et de disciplinarum nexu. Particula I"; i.e. about the introduction to the end of literary studies and the connection between the disciplines) and completed his habilitation in Berlin in 1838. Since 1837 he was a private lecturer at the University of Berlin, and in 1859 he became a professor there.
From 1837 Althaus in Berlin was also a member of the so-called Doctor's Club ("Doctorklubb") of the Left Hegelians, which united the criticism of religion and the Prussian state. The young Karl Marx (1818-1883), Karl Friedrich Köppen (1808-1863), Bruno Bauer (1809-1882) and Adolf Friedrich Rutenberg (1808-1869) also frequented there.
On the 8th In April 1843 he married Angelika Luise (Angelica Louise) a student, née in Berlin. at the 14th. January 1808 in Berlin as the only daughter of the merchant Johann Benjamin Jünger; gest. on the 25th. August 1880 at the age of 72 in Berlin. Her father had on the 3rd December 1794 married Carolina Sophia Tornow, eldest daughter of the Spandau merchant Carl Friedrich Tornow (gest. 18. March 1823 in Berlin).
She was the widow of the professor of philosophy in Halle Johann Georg Mußmann (1795-1833), whom she married on December 23rd. He married in September 1830 (son of the master blacksmith in Reichenberg near Danzig, Johann Friedrich David Mußmann). This marriage remained childless.
Karl Heinrich Althaus died on the 22nd. October 1886 at the age of 80 in Berlin.
From the marriage between Karl Heinrich Althaus and Angelika Luise, b. Students gave birth to five children:
-Karl Hermann Althaus (* 9. February 1844 in Berlin, died. 25. March 1898 in Berka), Dr. of philosophy and high school teacher, who died on January 1st. March 1875 in Berlin Marie Louise Charlotte married Anna Schrader von Beauvryé, née. 29. December 1852 in Schöneberg near Berlin as the daughter of the royal. Accounts Council and retired Prime Lieutenant Albin Schrader von Beauvryé. Children were Elisabeth Althaus (* 17. December 1875), who married Alfred Scheel, and Marta Althaus (* 9. March 1883)
-Heinrich Georg Althaus (* 25. February 1845 in Berlin, died. on the 31st October 1894 in Berlin), Royal. District judge and district judge in Berlin, who died on January 2nd. April 1884 in Berlin Marie Adelgunde married Auguste von Dechend, née. on the 22nd November 1855 in Berlin as the daughter of the Reichsbank President Hermann von Dechend (1814-1890) and Adelgunde, née. Wilke, died. on the 30th March 1917 in Teupitz
-Adelheid Althaus (* 17. October 1846 in Berlin, died. 20. August 1923 in Wittstock / Dosse)
-Ernst Ludwig Althaus (* 9. May 1848 in Berlin, died. 5. April 1933 in Braunschweig), Dr. of philosophy (diss. Berlin 1874 "Quaestionum de Iulii Pollucis fontibus specimen") and teacher at the Askanian Gymnasium in Berlin. On the 15th In April 1884 he married the teacher Anna Elisabeth Schmiel (* 19. April 1857 or 1858 in Berlin), daughter of the full teacher at the teachers' seminar at the Augusta School Wilhelm Ottomar Schmiel and Julie Luise Anna, née. Stieff. One of their sons was Ernst Althaus (* 19. February 1889 in Berlin; † 21. April 1977 in Herford), German lawyer and mayor of the cities of Minden and Herford.
-Conrad Althaus