Bio Limmer Carl-August

Limmer, Karl August (1767 – 09/04/1853) – Pastor, born in 1767 in the German city Plauene (Voigtland), where his father was a doctor, contrary to the wishes of parents who had prepared his son for a medical career, he devoted himself to studying theology at the University of Leipzig (1783 – 1786) and, returning to the Plough, successfully performed here as a preacher.

Two years later, however, in 1788, Limmer again went to Leipzig, where local archives, on behalf of the Superintendent of Gandhi, was collecting material for the history of their country, but soon quarreled with Gandhi, and deprived of support due to the death of his parents, he is forced to had to leave had been started and moved to Kurland. Here in Lithuania, and Livonia, for several years he was engaged in teaching activities in private homes and schools, and in 1810 got a job as a pastor in Poltava, where he opened at the same time their own training schools.

In 1818 he was invited to go to Saratov, where besides the urban Lutheran Church he had to be in charge and the arrival of German colonists, but here Limmer did not stay long because of clashes with Dr. Ignatius Theology Faessler, disputes and ensuing trial in 1820 . he was dismissed from the pastoral office in St. Petersburg and returned to his homeland.

In 1822 he settled in Gera, where he died on Sept. 4, 1853 Limmer left behind a number of published works on history, theology, philosophy, philology, and even mathematics.

Apart from a few historical sketches of small Germanic kingdoms, published them abroad in the period 1826 – 1838 G., known to have the following it works: Urbegriff des Christenthums ", Mitau, 1794;" Lehrbuch der Rechenkunde ", ibid, 1797;" Metaphysik der Grossenkunde ", ibid, 1803;" Urbegriff des griechisch-romischen Heidenthums ", Leipzig, 1806;" Aristarchos, oder Bemerkungen zur Berichtigung der sprachkunde, insbesondere der franzosischen Sprache ", Konigsberg, 1808;" Geometrue in raisonnirender Methode ", Leipzig 1809; Collection of sacred chants, Mitau, 1816;" Russland, wie es ist ", Leipzig, 1823;" Die gottliche Offenbarung in der Vernunft, nach eigenen den und deutlichsten Ausspruchen der Bibel selbst als solche aufgestellt ", Ronneburg, 1824;" Philologisch-historische Deduction des Ursprungs des Hochfurstl. Namen Reuss ", Gera, 1824 and" Der wahre Geist des Christenthums, aus der Geschichte seiner Entstehung, oder das Leben Jesu ", Grimm, 1837

Finally, known and its extensive printed polemics with IGS. Faessler and Paul Pezaroviusom, Jesuit whose performances Limmer denounced in his book "Meine Verfolgungen in Russland", (Leipzig, 1823) that led to the press response to the defendants, which, in turn, accused Limmer misleading. Recke und Napiersky, "Allgemeines Schriftsteller-und Gelehrten-Lexikon", Mitau, 1831, v. 3, p. 71 – 74, and adding, Mitau, 1861, p. 14, 15. – J. Fessler, "Geschichte der Entlassung des gewesenen Pastors in Saratow K. Limmer", Riga and Leipzig, 1823 – Its the same, "Autobiography," 1839 A. Helvius.