Carl Bertheau the Younger
Carl Bertheau (born July 6, 1836 in Hamburg ; † December 19, 1910 there ) was a German Protestant - Lutheran theologian , church historian and pastor .
Life
Carl Bertheau was born as the son of the educator and theologian Carl Bertheau the Elder. Ä. (1806–1886) and born to Jeanne Bertheau on July 6, 1836 in Hamburg. First he attended a secondary school, later the Johanneum , where he completed his schooling in 1855. He studied theology at the Universities of Halle and Göttingen and graduated from the University of Hamburg on November 30, 1859 .
He then worked as a teacher at private schools , then from 1862 as a secondary school teacher and finally from 1865 as a teacher at the learned school of the Johanneum . He was pastor at the main church Sankt Michaelis (Hamburg) from February 24, 1867, the previous year he had been involved in caring for the war wounded.
In addition, he worked for both the Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church and the General German Biography as well as school inspector . Bertheau's specialty was church history and church music in Hamburg . On November 10, 1883, the University of Greifswald awarded him an honorary theological doctorate .
He had worked as a pastor for 44 years until he died on December 19, 1910.
In the Realenzyklopädie there are 23 articles by Bertheau, in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie there are 29 longer and 70 short articles. Bertheau had five sons and four daughters, three of whom were also theologians, including the son Carl Bertheau III. (1878–1944), who co-founded the Confessing Church .
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Bertheau, Carl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 549.
- Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church (Volume 23; Pages 190/191)
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Bertheau the Younger in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bertheau, Carl the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bertheau, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian, church historian and pastor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 19, 1910 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |