Albert Lührs

Albert Lührs (around 1865)

Albert Lührs (born April 2, 1804 in Marschkamp near Elmlohe , † October 22, 1871 in Peine ) was a Lutheran theologian , pastor , superintendent and main editor of the Hanoverian Catechism of 1862.

Life

Albert Lührs was born as the son of Johann Hinrich Lührs and his wife Anna Margarete, b. Stürken, born in Marschkamp near Elmlohe, where his parents had a Brinksitzer position. Until the age of 16 Albert was tutored by his brother, the teacher Johann Christoph Lührs. Pastor Nikolaus Holthusen taught him Latin in Oberndorf . From autumn 1819 to Michaelis 1822 he attended the Athenaeum high school in Stade . He initially accepted a position as a tutor in Kuhla . At Pentecost he gave his first sermon in the church in Elmlohe.

In September 1823 he began his studies in Göttingen, which he interrupted in 1827 for a tutor position in Hoya in order to be able to finance his further studies. From Easter 1827 he studied in Halle and finished his studies at Easter 1828.

On January 17, 1832, the young rector and interim pastor Albert Lührs married Isabella Carolina Philippine Wirth in Hoya. The marriage resulted in 4 children.

In 1833 he received his first pastor in Scholen near Sulingen in the county of Hoya. Together with the pastor in Vilsen, he published the “ Kirchenfreund ” from 1833 , a church paper of importance for the emerging revival movement in northern Germany.

In 1842 Albert Lührs became archdeacon in Clausthal (Harz). With the pastor in neighboring Zellerfeld, he published the Christian Sunday paper . He also dealt with various currents inside and outside the regional church. In 1848, for example, he wrote a reply to the manifesto of free primitive Christianity published by the Baptist preacher Julius Köbner . The attacked responded two years later with a reply: The Church of Christ and the Church. A refutation of the book "The Anabaptists" published by Archdiaconus Lührs .

In 1848 Lührs became superintendent in Holtorf near Nienburg (Weser). His lecture in 1851 at the Hanover Whitsun Conference started the question of a catechism reform. In 1856 four clergymen and two schoolmen were commissioned to work out a new state catechism; The main editor was Albert Lührs, who became superintendent in Peine in 1859. Work on the new catechism was completed in 1861; its official introduction took place on April 15, 1862, the confirmation day of the Hanoverian Crown Prince Ernst August . In 1862 the University of Göttingen awarded Albert Lührs an honorary doctorate . In the summer of 1862 a storm of indignation against the new catechism ( Hanoverian Catechism Controversy ) broke out, caused by the Protestant population and pastorry, which was shaped by rationalism , whereupon the king withdrew his decree of April 15, 1862 on August 19, 1862 (see history of Bremen-Verdean catechism ).

Albert Lührs died in Peine on October 22, 1871.

literature

• D. Albert Lührs (1804–1871) from Marschkamp in the Bederkesa office. School and academic years of the future chief editor of the Hanover state catechism. In: Men-von-Morgenstern-Jahrbuch 60, Bremerhaven 1981.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albert Lührs: The Anabaptists , Clausthal 1848.
2. ↑ Markus Wehrstedt: Introduction to Köbner's "Manifesto". In: Markus Wehrstedt, Bernd Wittchow (ed.): Julius Köbner. Manifesto of free early Christianity to the German people. Berlin 2006, p. 22 f.