Carl Ferdinand Blazejewski

Carl Ferdinand Blazejewski (born January 17, 1862 in Thorn , † May 24, 1900 in Borken near Bartenstein ) was a German Protestant pastor and the founder of a deaconess house .

Life

Due to his father's activity as a border guard and the associated transfers, Blazejewski grew up in different places. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Alsdorf near Aachen . Because of further transfers of his father, he spent his school days in Maldingen in the Eifel , then in Espeler , then in Cologne and finally in Emmerich . In 1882 he went to Halle to study theology . Due to financial difficulties, Blazejewski was forced to interrupt his studies and took a position as a tutor in Stölitz ( Pomerania ) in 1883 and then in Versmold in 1885 . In 1886 he was able to resume studies in Halle . From 1888 he attended the Cathedral Candidate Foundation in Berlin and then became a naval pastor in Kiel in 1889 . In 1892 he took over a pastorate in Borken. In the same year he had a special faith experience on a journey that moved him to an inner conversion. In 1893 he was shaped by a Christian student conference in Frankfurt am Main , which was under the direction of Hudson Taylor .

In 1899 Blazejewski took part in a community conference in Gdansk . Following the conference, on February 2, 1899, an exchange of ideas took place between four pastors from whose congregations young girls had registered for deaconess service but were not adequately cared for. Blazejewski was given the task of founding a community nursing home. The community diaconal association was finally opened on October 20, 1899 in Borken with initially four sisters and moved to Vandsburg in November 1900 under Blazejewski's successor, Theophil Krawielitzki . Blazejewski is considered one of the bearers of community thinking in the German community movement in West Prussia, Pomerania and Posen. The deaconess house founded by Blazejewski is considered to be the forerunner of the German Community Diakonieverband , which was brought together in 1915 by Krawielitzki as the amalgamation of all work areas of the Vandsburg work. The deaconess Marie Kalteissen came from the deaconess mother house Vandsburg.

literature

Karin Wittneben : Ferdinand Blazejewski , in: Horst-Peter Wolff (Ed. 9): Biographical Lexicon on Nursing History “Who was who in nursing history” , Volume 3, Elsevier Munich 2004, pp. 41–45.

Individual evidence

↑ Erich Geldbach: community movement . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 3 . UTB, Stuttgart October 8, 2008, Sp. 646 .
^ Jochen-Christoph Kaiser : Vandsburg . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 8 . UTB, Stuttgart October 8, 2008, Sp. 880 .

personal data
SURNAME	Blazejewski, Carl Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blazeijewski, Karl Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German pastor and founder of a social welfare organization
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Thorn
DATE OF DEATH	May 24, 1900
Place of death	Bark

[RGG4-1-1] Erich Geldbach: community movement . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 3 . UTB, Stuttgart October 8, 2008, Sp. 646 .

[RGG4-2-2] Jochen-Christoph Kaiser : Vandsburg . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. In: Hans Dieter Betz u. a. (Ed.): Religion in the past and present . Concise dictionary for theology and religious studies. 4th edition. tape 8 , no. 8 . UTB, Stuttgart October 8, 2008, Sp. 880 .