Friedrich Christoph Oetinger - Literature

Literature

a) Pre 1945:

• "Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. This work in turn recommends monographs by Auberlin (1847), Ehmann (1859) and Wächter (1885).
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This work in turn cites:
  • K. F. C. Ehmann, Oetinger's Leben und Briefe (1859)
  • C. A. Auberlen, Die Theosophie Friedr. Chr. Oetinger's (1847; 2nd ed., 1859)
  • Herzog, Friedrich Christoph Ötinger (1902)
• "Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

b) 1945 - 1990:

• Breymayer, Reinhard, ed.. "Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph 1702 - 1782". In Heiner Schmidt, Quellenlexikon zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, vol. 24. (Duisburg:) Verlag für Pädagogische Dokumentation 2000, pp. 106 – 114.
• Breymayer, Reinhard: Oetinger (Frédéric-Christophe), in: Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique. Doctrine et histoire. Fondé par M Viller, F Cavallera, J de Guibert, S. J. Continué par A Rayez, A Derville et A Solignac, S. J. avec le concours d'un grand nombre de collaborateurs, tome 11. Nabinal - Ozanam. Paris 1982, p. 682, col. 2 - p. 685, col. 1.
• Erb, Peter Christian, ed. Pietists: Selected Writings. Paulist Press, 1983 - ISBN 0-8091-2509-9 - Wurttemberg Pietism: Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687 - 1752) & Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702-1782), p. 253 - 288.
• Gadamer, Hans Georg. "Oetinger als Philosoph". Kleine Schriften, III, 89-100.
• Yeide, Jr., Harry Elwood. A Vision of the Kingdom of God. The Social Ethic of Friedrich Christoph Oetinger. Ph.D. Diss. (in religion) Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1965 .

c) newest literature:

• Weyer-Menkhoff, Martin. Christus, das Heil der Natur. Entstehung und Systematik der Theologie Friedrich Christoph Oetingers. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1990 (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Pietismus, vol. 27), pp. 272–326 Bibliography.
• Weyer-Menkhoff, Martin. Friedrich Christoph Oetinger. Bildbiographie. Wuppertal und Zürich: R. Brockhaus / Metzingen: Ernst Franz Verlag 1990, ISBN 3-417-21107-7 (R. Brockhaus), ISBN 3-7722-0215-2 (Franz).
• Yeide, Jr., Harry . Studies in Classical Pietism. The Flowering of the Ecclesiola. New York; Washington, DC; Baltimore Peter Lang 1997 (Studies in Church History, vol. 6), pp. 109–123 with notes 1-45 on pp. 172–176.
• Herzog, Frederick. European pietism reviewed. San José, California: Pickwick Publications (2003) (Princeton Theological Monograph Series; 50), pp. (35)-38: Sacred Philosophy? Oetinger.
• Weyer-Menkhoff, Martin. The Pietist Theologians. An Introduction to Theology in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Edited by Carter Lindberg. Malden, MA; Oxford, UK; Carlton, Victoria, Australia: Blackwell (2005) (The Great Theologians. A comprehensive series devoted to highlighting the major theologians of different periods), pp. 239–255: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702-1782).
• Mathesis, Naturphilosophie und Arkanwissenschaft im Umkreis Friedrich Christoph Oetingers (1702-1782). Hrsg. von Sabine Holtz, Gerhard Betsch und Eberhard Zwink in Verbindung mit dem Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde und Historische Hilfswissenschaften der Universität Tübingen. Stuttgart. Franz Steiner Verlag 2005 (Contubernium. Tübinger Beiträge zur Universitäts- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, vol. 63). - VIII, 314 pp. - ISBN 3-515-08439-8.
• Breymayer, Reinhard. "Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph (pseudonyms: Halatophilus Irenaeus, Bibliophilus Irenaeus)". Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism. Edited by Wouter J Hanegraaff in collaboration with Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek, Jean-Pierre Brach. Leiden / Boston: E. J. Brill 2005, vol. 2, pp. 889–894.
• Wouter J Hanegraaff. Swedenborg, Oetinger, Kant: Three Perspectives on the Secrets of Heaven. The Swedenborg Foundation, West Chester, Pennsylvania 2007 (Swedenborg Studies Series, no. 18) ISBN 978-0-87785-321-3, pp. 67–85: "Friedrich Christoph Oetinger".
• Tonino Griffero. Il corpo spirituale. Ontologie "sottili" da Paolo di Tarso a Friedrich Christoph Oetinger. Mimesis Edizioni, Milano (2006 ), ISBN 978-88-8483-413-3.
• Shantz, Douglas H. “The Harvest of Pietist Theology: F.C. Oetinger’s Quest for Truth as recounted in his Selbstbiographie of 1762”, in Tradition and Formation: Claiming An Inheritance. Essays in Honour of Peter C Erb, edited by Michel Desjardins and Harold Remus. Kitchener: Pandora Press, 2008, pp. 121–134.
• Reinhard Breymayer. Prälat Oetingers Neffe Eberhard Christoph v. Oetinger . 2nd, improved, edition. Tübingen: Noûs-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck 2010, ISBN 978-3-924249-49-6. [Relations between F. C. Oetinger and his family to Goethe - The wife of F. C. Oetinger's nephew E. C. v. Oetinger was a relative and formerly a girlfriend ('Amasia') of Goethe: Charlotte Louise Ernestine Edle von Oetinger, née von Barckhaus genannt von Wiesenhütten.
• Ulrike Kummer: Autobiographie und Pietismus. Friedrich Christoph Oetingers Genealogie der reellen Gedancken eines Gottes=Gelehrten. Untersuchungen und Edition. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Peter Lang 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60070-2
• Reinhard Breymayer: Zwischen Prinzessin Antonia von Württemberg und Kleists Käthchen von Heilbronn. Neues zum Magnet- und Spannungsfeld des Prälaten Friedrich Christoph Oetinger. Dußlingen: Noûs-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck, 2010. - 229 pp. 4°. - ISBN 978-3-924249-51-9.
• Ehmer, Hermann: "Oetinger, Friedrich Christoph". In: Religion. Past & Present. Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion. Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning (+), Bernd Janowski, Eberhard Jüngel, vol. 9. Brill, Leiden/Boston 2011, p. 279.