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Karl Albert Schädelin (born December 6, 1879 in Koppigen , † December 18, 1961 in Bern ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

family

Albert Schädelin was the son of pastor Karl Ferdinand Edmund Schädelin and his wife Sophie Elisabeth (née Andreae). His brother was the forest scientist Walter Schädelin and he was a grandson of the pastor and politician Johann Jakob Schädelin (born December 16, 1804 in Moosleerau ; † October 3, 1859 in Bern).

He was married to Maria Stephania (née Rogg). They had several children together:

  • Hans Schädelin
  • Marianne Schädelin
  • Verena Schädelin, married to Emanuel Rudolf Stickelberger; Her son Jacob Stickelberger describes the family history in My almost great grandfather in 2018
  • Klaus Schädelin , writer

education

Albert Schädelin enrolled at the University of Bern to study theology, which he continued at the University of Berlin and the theological faculty of the University of Toulouse in Montauban .

Career

In 1905 he was ordained and from 1905 to 1906 he was vicar in the Swiss parish in Milan before he was pastor in Rohrbach from 1906 to 1911 . In 1911 he came to Bern Minster as a pastor and stayed there until 1952.

In 1928 he was appointed associate professor for practical theology at the University of Bern and taught there until 1950.

From 1930 to 1942 he was a member of the Bern Synodal Council .

Spiritual and theological work

In the 1910s Albert Schädelin was close to the religious-social movement and joined the Association of Friends of Religious-Social Conference , which was founded in 1909 by Leonhard Ragaz , Herrmann Kutter and Oskar Pfister . From 1915 Albert Schädelin became the leading representative of dialectical theology in Bern.

In Bern, he headed the theological working group associated with Karl Barth , which he founded together with his brother, Peter Barth . At first it was just a reading group that dealt with the authors of the 18th and 19th centuries, but then increasingly turned to the writings of Karl Barth and Johannes Calvin's Institutio Christianae Religionis . In 1944 the working group included around 150 pastors.

In the Bern church dispute from 1949 to 1951, in which Karl Barth resisted any political instrumentalization of the gospel and refused to go with the flow and to be harnessed in the ideological struggle against communism , Albert Schädelin had a moderate influence. Karl Barth called for the Church to stand up for peace and against the Cold War. For this purpose, Albert Schädelin procured some arches from the Bern Synod and thus contributed significantly to easing the conflict.

Trivia

Albert Schädelin took in the later writer Cécile Ines Loos for some time when she returned to Switzerland after the birth of her son. After he expelled her from the house in 1914 because I dared to assert that the Church was actually acting wrong , she made an unflattering memorial to him with her fictional character, Pastor Maida, in her work Matka Boska .

honors and awards

In 1931 the University of Zurich appointed Albert Schädelin Dr. theol. hc

Fonts (selection)

  • Blessed are you poor! Zurich: Book printing of the Swiss Grütliverein, 1912.
  • Dona Pacem . 1914.
  • Albert Barth ; Albert Schädelin: The XIX Christian Student Conference . Bern: A. Francke, 1915.
  • Pestalozzi's belief . Basel 1926.
  • Pastor and abstinence . Bern: Blaukreuz-Verlag; Lausanne: alcohol opponents publishing house, 1926.
  • Church and State . Bern, 1930.
  • Reformed worship and our church today . Bern 1937.
  • Religious or Christian? Bern, 1937.
  • What the Christian community owes its homeland today . Berne, 1941.
  • God and the idols . Lang, 1943.
  • Confession and People's Church . Zurich Zwingli-Verl. 1943.
  • The Christian and the authorities . Bern, 1950.
  • Church and State in the Canton of Bern: a contribution to the discussion by the Theological Working Group of the Canton of Bern . Berlin: H. Lang & Cie., 1951.
  • Synod of Bern: Order of how the pastors and preachers in the city and state of Bern are to keep themselves in doctrine and life, with a further report of Christ and the sacraments, decided at the Synod there on January 9, 1532; Shooting speeches from the Bern disputation . 1951.
  • The Right Sermon: Outline of Homiletics . Zurich: Zwingli-Verlag, 1953.
  • Synod of Bern Order of how pastors and preachers in the city and state of Bern should keep their teaching and life . Belp: Jordi, 1953.
  • The free evangelical school . Bern: Protestant teachers' seminar Muristalden, 1953.
  • Service and office of the pastor: a service instruction for the pastor of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Bern . Bern: Stämpfli, 1954.
  • How does a sermon come about? Zurich, 1954.
  • Albert Schädelin; Kurt Naef: Church in our time . Zurich: Gotthelf-Verlag, 1959.
  • Live by faith . Hilterfingen, 1959.

literature

  • Hans Dürr, Wilhelm Michaelis: Festschrift for D. Albert Schädelin: The word they should let stahn. H. Lang, 1950.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Skull, Johann Jakob. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Jacob Stickelberger publishes a novel . In: Berner Zeitung . ISSN  1424-1021 ( bernerzeitung.ch [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Lucius Kratzert: Theology between Society and Church: On the national character of social doctrines of German and Swiss theologians in the 20th century. Theological publishing house Zurich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-290-17715-7 ( google.de [accessed on May 22 2020]).
  4. ^ Daniel Ficker Stähelin, Daniel Ficker: Karl Barth and Markus Feldmann in the Bern church dispute 1949-1951 . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2006, ISBN 978-3-290-17394-4 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  5. ^ Eberhard Busch: The Karl Barth Files: Censorship and Surveillance in the Name of Swiss Neutrality 1938-1945 . Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-290-17458-3 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Rudolf Dellsperger: Between Revelation and Experience: Collected Essays on Historical Theology . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17842-0 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Michael Beintker, Georg Plasger, Michael Trowitzsch: Karl Barth as a teacher of reconciliation (1950–1968): Deepening - Opening - Hope . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-290-17833-8 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Rudolf Dellsperger: Between Revelation and Experience: Collected Essays on Historical Theology . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17842-0 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Alexander Sury: The difficult lot of the woman Loos. In: The Small Bund. October 14, 2015, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  10. ^ Konrad Schmid: The Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich. Learned Society in Zurich, 2016, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Skull, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skull, Karl Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Koppigen
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1961
Place of death Bern