Arthur Malmgren

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Arthur Malmgren (born October 18, 1860 in Reval , † February 3, 1947 in Leipzig ) was a German-Baltic theologian and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia .

Life

Arthur Malmgren's grave in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Arthur Malmgren came from an old, originally Swedish family of preachers. His great-grandfather, Nikolaus Malmgren, born in Landskrona in 1772 , emigrated to Estonia to take care of the Swedes who lived there. He died as provost of Insularwiek.

Arthur, the son of a businessman, attended the town high school in Reval and studied Protestant theology at the University of Dorpat . He then worked as a teacher at the Fellin High School and at the Petri Realschule in Reval. In Reval he also held the office of deacon at the cathedral . From 1891 to 1931 he was pastor at the St. Anne's Church in St. Petersburg and religion teacher at the St. Anne's Church School. At the same time he held the position of director in the central committee of the support fund for Evangelical Lutheran congregations, the city mission and the preacher emerital fund. In 1914 he became general superintendent .

After the First World War , he became chairman of the upper church council in 1920 and deputy chairman of the bishops' conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia in 1923 . In 1924 he received the title of bishop by resolution of the general synod. In 1925 he founded the Evangelical Lutheran seminary in Leningrad , which he headed until his dismissal by the Stalinist government in 1929.

After severe persecution, he was allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1936 and initially came to Mainz , where he lived very secluded. Due to the war, he moved to Leipzig, where he died in 1947. His grave is in the south cemetery in Leipzig .

Honors

literature

  • Wilhelm Kahle: History of the Evangelical Lutheran communities in the Soviet Union. 1917–1938 (= Studies on Eastern European History. Vol. 16). Brill, Leiden 1974, ISBN 90-04-03867-1 .
  • Arthur Malmgren: My life and work. In: The Protestant Diaspora. Vol. 22, 1940, ISSN  0943-2183 , pp. 59-76.
  • Helmut Tschoerner: The Evangelical Lutheran Seminary in Leningrad 1925–34. Notes on its history. With 79 letters from Bishop DA Malmgren (= contributions to the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia. Vol. 3). Martin Luther Verlag, Erlangen 2002, ISBN 3-87513-129-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Malmgren, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1947
Place of death Leipzig