Albert Rosary

Albert Rosenkranz in 1953 at the celebratory speech for the 100th anniversary of his home church in Remscheid-Hasten

Albert Eduard Rosenkranz (born March 2, 1876 in Hasten ; † July 31, 1975 in Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth ) was a German Protestant pastor, theologian and archivist .

Life and meaning

Rosary was studying in Bonn , Berlin and Strasbourg Protestant theology and history, and in 1901 in Bonn to Dr. lic. theol. PhD on the basis of Wiclif's work on ethical and social outlook . After working for a year as a synodal vicar in Trier, he took over a parish office in Voerde (Lower Rhine) in 1903 and in 1908 moved to the German-speaking community in Liverpool . In 1915 he had to return to Germany because of the First World War and became assistant preacher in Nilvingen ( Lorraine ). From 1921 to 1938 he was pastor in Bad Kreuznach . Then he took over the management of the archive of the Rhenish Provincial Church in Bonn (from 1948: Archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland ). He prepared to move the archive to Düsseldorf and retired in 1951.

Rosenkranz was co-editor of the monthly magazine for Rhenish church history and editor or author of numerous publications on Rhenish church history. In 1954, he was head of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn with the honorary doctorate awarded.

Fonts (selection)

• History of the German Evangelical Church in Liverpool. Stuttgart 1921; Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 1965.
• The Bundschuh. The surveys of the southwest German peasant class in the years 1493–1517. C. Winter, Heidelberg 1927.
• History of the Protestant community in Kreuznach. Kreuznach 1951
• The Protestant Rhineland. Two volumes. Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 1956–1958
• Outline of a history of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 1960
  • Brief history of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland until nineteen hundred and forty-five. 2., revised. Edition. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1975.

As editor

• The Reformed Bergische Synods during the Jülich-Klevischen succession dispute. Three volumes. Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 1963–1967.
• General Synodal Book. Part 1: The acts of the general synods from 1610–1755. Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf, 1966–1970.
• Meeting reports of the Convente of the Reformed Düsseldorf Classis from 1673 to 1700. Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 1970.
• Meeting reports of the Convente of the Reformed Elberfelder Classis from 1676 to 1700. Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf, 1971.
• Session reports of the reformed synods of the Duchy of Jülich during the Counter Reformation 1611–1675. Press association of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, Düsseldorf 1972.

literature

• Dietrich Meyer : On the 100th birthday of Lic. D. Albert Rosenkranz. Excerpts from a guest book. In: Monthly Issues for Evangelical Church History of the Rhineland 25 (1976), pp. 235–241.

Web links

• Entry on Rosenkranz, Albert in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on July 1, 2019 .
• Estate in the archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland