Adam Heilmann

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Johann Adam Heilmann (born April 5, 1860 in Hohenzell ; † November 18, 1930 in Groß Schneen ) was a German Reformed theologian. He played an important part in the establishment of the reformed chair at the Georg-August University in Göttingen .

Life

Education

Heilmann studied theology in Marburg and Erlangen . There he joined the local Wingolf association, in 1879 the Marburger Wingolf and 1881 the Erlanger Wingolf . Since his student days he was heavily influenced by the English revival movement. Since 1884 was friends with the reformed professor August Ebrard . Heilmann and Ebrard shared the desire to establish a chair for Reformed theology in Göttingen.

Pastor in Göttingen

Heilmann was parish priest from 1884 to 1887 in the Waldensberg settlement founded by Waldensians in Hesse and then in Spanbeck in the area under the rule of Castle Plesse near Göttingen. In 1891 he became pastor of the Reformed community in Göttingen. The orientation of the church work on a neo-Pietic basis gave the church a considerable boost. From 1893 he also supported the Göttingen Wingolf as an old man . During his time as parish priest, he founded a Göttingen parish care organization with 18 care districts. For more than a decade Heilmann negotiated about the establishment and financing of a professorship for Reformed theology in Göttingen. He himself could no longer compete in 1921 for health reasons. The still unknown Swiss Karl Barth came to Göttingen in his place .

Functions in the Reformed League

From 1907 to 1920 Heilmann was the moderator of the Lower Saxony Confederation in the Reformed Union , from 1884 to 1919 a member of the board and from 1913 to 1925 deputy moderator in the Reformed Union under Heinrich Calaminus and August Lang .

Fonts (selection)

  • History of the Waldensian colony Waldensberg (= history sheets of the German Huguenot Association, Vol. 12, Issue 4/6). Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg 1903.
  • Document booklet on the history of the Waldensian colony Waldensberg (= history sheets of the German Huguenot Association, vol. 12, booklet 9.10). Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg 1905.
  • The Heidelberg Catechism for School and Confirmation Lessons. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1905.
  • A church order based on reformed principles. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1920.
  • Pastor Adam Heilmann's review of his term of office. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 21 (1973), pp. 263-306.

literature

  • German who's who. Volume 8, 1922, p. 605.
  • 100 years of the Reformed Covenant. Contributions from the past and present. Bad Bentheim 1984.
  • Walter Mogk: Pastor Johann Adam Heilmann's memories of his tenure in Waldensberg (1884-1887). In: Büdinger Geschichtsblätter 9/10, 1980/81, pp. 116-146.
  • Walter Mogk: Pastor Johann Adam Heilmann's notes on village life in the "Bergwinkel" of the 19th century. In: Büdinger Geschichtsblätter 12, 1984, pp. 150-182.
  • Eberhard Busch : Preface. In: Karl Barth: The Theology in Reformed Confessions 1923. Louisville 2005.
  • Matthias Freudenberg: The establishment of the professorship for Reformed Theology at the Georg August University. In: Reformed Protestantism in Challenge. Ways and changes of reformed theology. Berlin 2012, p. 275.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philistine directory of the Göttingen Wingolf 1919, p. 1.
  2. ↑ Hans Otte : The history of the churches. In: Rudolf von Thadden : Göttingen, history of a university town. Volume 3, Göttingen 1999, p. 616ff.
  3. ^ Philistine directory of the Göttingen Wingolf 1919, p. 1.
  4. ↑ 100 years of the Reformed Covenant. Contributions from the past and present . Verlag A. Hellendoorn, Bad Bentheim, 1984. p. 30
  5. ↑ 100 years of the Reformed Covenant. Contributions from the past and present . Verlag A. Hellendoorn, Bad Bentheim, 1984. p. 34
personal data
SURNAME Heilmann, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heilmann, Johann Adam (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenzell
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1930
Place of death Big snow