Karl Kuhlo
Karl Gustav Arnold Kuhlo (born October 2, 1818 in Gütersloh , † March 16, 1909 in Bielefeld-Bethel ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the Minden-Ravensberg revival movement and hymn composer.
Life
Karl Kuhlo was a son of the Gütersloh school rector and cantor Karl Philipp Kuhlo . Like his brother Eduard and his son Johannes Kuhlo , he chose to become a pastor under the influence of Johann Heinrich Volkening .
He studied Protestant theology in Halle and Berlin and in 1843 passed the ecclesiastical examination with the Westphalian provincial church leadership in Münster . After a time as private tutor in Berlin and Bielefeld , he became pastor at the Protestant church in Valdorf near Vlotho in 1851 . In the same year he married Pauline Waldecker, a merchant's daughter from Bielefeld.
In 1868 he was appointed pastor of the Elisabeth Hospital and Deaconess House in Berlin. He stayed there until his retirement in 1892.
During his 17-year tenure in Valdorf, he worked in the spirit of the Lutheran awakening through intensive visiting activities, through missionary sermons, through frequent Lord's Supper celebrations and through musical arrangement of the liturgy with chants and songs.
Of his song melodies have remained alive:
- Come in, sweet glow (text by Marie Schmalenbach ; EG -Regionalteile)
- I've gone through the world (text by Eleonore Fürstin Reuss ; song books of the revival movement)
literature
- Hans Schöttler : Pastor Karl Kuhlo. Simple pictures from a quiet life . Magdeburg 1918
Web links
- Pastor Karl Kuhlo (evangelisch-in-vlotho.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Kuhlo , p. 23
- ↑ History of the Evangelical Elisabeth Clinic Berlin p. 53
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuhlo, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuhlo, Karl Gustav Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran pastor, hymn composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gutersloh |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 1909 |
| Place of death | Bethel (Bielefeld) |