Adolf Hausrath

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Adolf Hausrath

Adolf Hausrath (pseudonym George Taylor ; born January 13, 1837 in Karlsruhe , † August 2, 1909 in Heidelberg ) was a Protestant theologian and writer. Besides Felix Dahn and Georg Ebers, Hausrath is the main representative of the so-called " professorial novel ".

Life

His father August Hausrath (1806–1847) was a respected preacher and, together with Carl Zittel and Emil Otto Schellenberg , leader of the liberal party.

Honorary grave of Adolph Hausrath on the Heidelberg mountain cemetery in the department D on Professorenweg

Hausrath studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Göttingen , Berlin , Jena and Heidelberg . During his studies in Jena he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar in 1856/57 . His academic teachers included Johann Gustav Droysen , Karl August Hase and Kuno Fischer . In 1861 he received his doctorate in Berlin for Lic. Theol. and became vicar in Heidelberg, where he completed his habilitation in 1862. In 1864 he became assessor in the Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Baden Church in Karlsruhe , in 1867 extraordinary, and in 1872 full professor for New Testament exegesis and church history in Heidelberg. In 1889 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly as a representative of Heidelberg University . Shortly before his death, he was accepted as an extraordinary member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

In 1864 the householder married Henriette Fallenstein (1840–1895), a sister of Max Weber's mother Helene Weber. They had eleven children, eight of whom reached adulthood, including August (1865–1944) and Hans Hausrath (1866–1945). Until his death, Hausrath lived with his family in the "Villa Fallenstein", Ziegelhäuser Landstrasse 17; Max and Marianne Weber followed him as tenants . He was buried, like his wife, in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg)

Work and meaning

Hausrath was a dedicated liberal, both ecclesiastically and politically . Under the influence of his Heidelberg teachers Richard Rothe (about whom he wrote a biography) and Ludwig Häusser , he participated in the founding of the German Protestant Association and became its first secretary. His New Testament and church history works are predominantly of a biographical nature (the broadest distribution was a popular biography of Martin Luther ). Their scientific value is limited; for this, like Hausrath's novels, they are characterized by psychological empathy. Like Heinrich von Treitschke (whose biography he also wrote), he saw Protestantism as the dominant culture of the empire; on the other hand, he fought Catholicism and social democracy. Hausrath's writings are not free from anti-Semitic traits.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • The heretic master Konrad von Marburg . Heidelberg 1861.
  • Contemporary history of the New Testament (2nd edition, Heidelberg 1877–79, 4 vols., From which his work The Apostle Paulus (2nd edition, 1872) forms an excerpt)
  • Religious speeches and reflections . Leipzig 1873; 2nd ed. 1882.
  • David Friedrich Strauss and the theology of his time . Heidelberg 1877-78, 2 vols.
  • Small writings on the history of religion . Leipzig 1883.
  • Peter Abelard . Leipzig 1893.
  • World improvers in the Middle Ages . Leipzig 1895.
  • History of the theological faculty in Heidelberg in the 19th century . Heidelberg 1901.
  • In memory of Heinrich von Treitschke. Old acquaintance. Gedächtnisblätter II , Leipzig 1901 (English: The Life of Treitschke . In: Treitschke: his life and works. Translated into English for the first time . London: Jarrold, 1914)
  • Richard Rothe and his friends . 2 vol., Berlin 1902–1906.
  • Luther's life . Berlin 1904.

He published his historical novels under the pseudonym George Taylor:

  • Antinous (Leipzig 1880, 6th edition 1886);
  • Klytia (Leipzig 1883, 5th edition 1884);
  • Jetta (Leipzig 1884);
  • Elfriede (Leipzig 1885);
  • Father Maternus (Leipzig 1898);
  • Potamina (Stuttgart 1901).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Adolf Hausrath. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed July 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Bergfriedhof Heidelberg, Friedhofsamt

literature

  • Theodor Kappstein: Adolf Hausrath. The man, the theologian, the poet , Berlin 1912.
  • Theodor Kappstein: Adolf Hausrath. In: Albert Krieger (ed.), Badische Biographien, Vol. 6, Winter, Heidelberg 1927, pp. 31-44 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Bauer: Adolf Hausrath: Life and Time. I. Volume. 1837-1867 . Winter, Heidelberg 1933 (no longer published).
  • Fritz Hauß:  Hausrath, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 126 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  HAUSRATH, Adolf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 610-611.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Peter Kaupp : Hausrath, Adolf. In: From Aldenhoven to Zittler, members of the Arminia fraternity on the Burgkeller-Jena, who have emerged in public life over the past 100 years. Dieburg 2000.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Hausrath, Adolf . In: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart , 4th ed., Vol. 3, 2000, Col. 1485.
  • Guenther Roth: Max Weber's German-English family history 1800-1950 . Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001, pp. 336–341.
  • Gottfried Gerner-Wolfhard: Adolf Hausrath (1837-1909). Church political actor - theological teacher - historical writer. In: Life pictures from the Evangelical Church in Baden in the 19th and 20th centuries, Vol. 5: Culture and Education, ed. by Gerhard Schwinge . Verl. Regionalkultur, Heidelberg a. a. 2007 ISBN 978-3-89735-502-6 , pp. 100-121.
  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . (Ed.): Rectorate of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo. 2012. ISBN 978-3642707612
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 297-298.

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personal data
SURNAME Hausrath, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 1909
Place of death Heidelberg