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Soon afterwards he en- tered the Seminar fiir gdehrte Sclmlen at Berlin, which was under Gedikes direc- tion. From 1794 to 1796 he was assistant preacher at Landsberg on the Warthe, 1796- 1802 chaplain at the CJmrite-Ham at Berlin, 1802-1804 court-chaplain at Stolpe, and 1804-1806 Professor Extraordiuarius of Theology and Philosophy at Halle on the Saale. Being compelled, in consequence of the events of the war, to give up this last position, he occupied himself with literary labors, and co-operated in his measure with Fichte and other patriotic men in bracing the public mind for the work of a future emancipation of the Fatherland from foreign domination. From 1809 he preached at the Church of the Trinity in Berlin. On the founding of the Berlin University he received in it an appointment as Professor Ordinnrius of Theology, which position he retained till his death on the 12th of February, 1834 In addition to his courses of theological lectures he delivered philosophical lectures on various branches of philoso- phy. prev next |