Beate Paulus

The title of this article is ambiguous. On the German chemist and university professor, see Beate Paulus (chemist) .

Beate Eleutherie Paulus , née Beate Eleutherie Hahn (born January 8, 1778 in Kornwestheim ; died January 24, 1842 in the salon near Ludwigsburg ) was a pietist and pastor from Württemberg .

Life

She was the daughter of Pastor Philipp Matthäus Hahn from his second marriage to Beata Regina, née Flattich. Her parents were both pietistic and humanistic, which is why she was educated accordingly. After her father's death, she stayed with various relatives for ten years, mostly helping out in the household.

Pastor's wife

On April 24, 1800 she married the pastor Carl Friedrich Paulus (1763-1828) - a cousin of the rationalist theologian Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus - who valued her father's teaching and had a job in Reichenbach since 1799 . The marriage had six sons and six daughters, including Beate Eleutherie (1801–1861), Karl Friedrich (1804–1867, doctor), Philipp Wilhelm (1806–1870, pharmacist), Ernst Philipp (1809–1878, theologian), Christoph Ludwig (1811–1893, head of the Temple Society ), Johann Immanuel Martin (1814–1876, pastor), Pauline (1818–1893) and Gottlob Fürchtegott (1820–1858, doctor).

Because Carl Friedrich Paulus did not appreciate the new religious policy in Württemberg and did not comply with the new liturgy that King Friedrich had introduced, he was transferred to the smaller community of Ostelsheim in 1809 . In 1814 he was able to move to Talheim as pastor due to intercession with the church leadership from more influential family members . The financial situation of the steadily growing family remained bad, precisely because Beate Paulus insisted on Latin school and study for her children , preferably studying theology in order to further spread the teachings of her father. She received financial support for these purposes from her mother; the children mostly stayed with different relatives at the school sites during their high school and university years. But she also borrowed money in "her" parish and at the same time managed the parish itself. This uncompromising promotion of the children's educational path led to arguments with her husband and other people whom she viewed as rationalists. From reports of the children from this time in particular their intense prayers in the attic of the rectory, in which they asked God for insight, inspiration and miracles.

School establishment

Her husband died in 1828, the pastor's position in Talheim was filled the following year and, after most of the debts had been settled, Paulus moved to Münchingen , where she was able to move into the former apartment of her deceased mother. From there she moved again in 1831 to the neighboring Evangelical Brethren Congregation in Korntal , where her eldest sons now practiced and where she was permitted to practice their religion. In order to ensure the schooling of her youngest children, Beate Paulus founded a new, private educational institution there in 1835, which initially only accepted a very small number of students. When an expansion became necessary, the church elders did not give permission.

Therefore, Beate Paulus and her sons moved in November 1837 to the so-called salon between Ludwigsburg and Kornwestheim , where she also took her private apartment. The Wissenschaftliche Bildungsanstalt am Salon was supposed to offer space for 120 students and was continued after their death by two of their sons as a Christian-humanistic educational institution with the addition of the brothers Paulus to their name . In 1879 the private school was closed.

In a snowball fight with her pupils, Beate Paulus fell ill with pneumonia on January 18, 1842 and died within a few days. Her son-in-law, the theologian Christoph Hoffmann , son of the Korntal co-founder, who married her daughter Pauline in 1841 , held the mourning service .

Appreciation

Her third son Philipp recorded her biography, which was reprinted many times by Christian publishers until the 20th century. Her diary entries from Talheim from 1817 to 1829 were also edited.

Several public institutions and streets in Baden-Württemberg were named after Beate Paulus: Beate-Paulus-Platz in Talheim, Beate-Paulus-Straße in Kornwestheim and Protestant kindergartens in Trossingen , Klosterreichenbach and Kornwestheim.

literature

• Rudolf Friedrich Paulus: Brief history of the Württemberg family Paulus / Hoffmann , 2000.
• Ernst Philipp Paulus: Beate Paulus, née Hahn. What a mother can do. Belser-Verlag 1875, 2nd edition.
• Werner Raupp : Beate Paulus - what a mother can do. - In: Werner Raupp (Ed.): Lived Faith. Experiences and life testimonies in our country. A reader. Metzingen (Würrt.) 1993, pp. 325-331 (source texts).
• Werner Raupp : Paulus, Beate. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Vol. 7, Herzberg: Bautz 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 92-94 (Qu., WW, Lit.).