Carl Hermann Manchot

in younger years, ca.1885

In his study

Before St. Gertrud

Granite boulder with embedded bronze plaque from Stoltenberg-Lerche in front of St. Gertrud

Carl Hermann Manchot , also Karl Hermann Manchot [mɑ̃ʃo] (born September 3, 1839 in Nidda , Hesse, † December 16, 1909 in Hamburg ) was a German Protestant theologian.

family

Manchot came from the Huguenot family Manchot from Lorraine. His father Johann Daniel Manchot (1805–1867) was the Protestant dean and pastor in Offenbach and his brother the renowned architect Wilhelm Manchot .

Manchot was married to Johanne Caroline Clothilde Credner, a daughter of Carl August Credner (1797-1857), professor of theology in Gießen, and Johanna Bernhardine Sigismunde Clothilde Luden, a daughter of the historian Heinrich Luden (1780-1847 ), since April 24, 1865 ). The Manchot couple had five children together: the Hamburg doctor, Carl Manchot (1866–1932) and his twin sister Caroline, Wilhelm Manchot (chemist) (1869–1945), Anna Manchot (died early) and Walter Manchot (died as a small child).

Life

Manchot studied at the University of Giessen , where he obtained the Dr. phil. In 1864 he received his first pastorships in Maschwanden and Wipkingen , both in the canton of Zurich . In 1866 he received the second pastorate at St. Remberti in Bremen . From there he moved to the newly built St. Gertrud Church in Hamburg-Hohenfelde in 1883 , where he spent most of his pastoral work as the first pastor.

Manchot was the founder and one of the most outstanding members of the German Protestant Association . During his time in Bremen from 1868 to 1882 he was the publisher of the ecclesiastically free-thinking German Protestant Journal . The University of Zurich awarded him an honorary theological doctorate D. theol.

During his tenure in Hamburg, the cholera epidemic broke out in 1892 , during which, according to a report by his son Carl Manchot, more than 6,000 people died. During this time, Manchot's main merit was self-sacrificing pastoral care and, above all, his social commitment. He founded the St. Gertrud parish care and a hospital and a nurses house were built. He sponsored the construction of an orphanage on the Uhlenhorst , which could take in orphans whose parents had died of cholera. He had a milk kitchen set up in which the socially needy could receive clean baby food.

Manchot was in the leadership of the "General Evangelical Missions Association" active with deep conviction and a member of the Hamburg Council of Churches.

Manchot died shortly before Christmas 1909. A group of friends from the community had a large granite boulder with an embedded bronze plaque by Stoltenberg-Lerche erected on his grave as a memorial. 100 years later, after severe storm damage, it was re-erected on November 20, 2011 in an open space in front of St. Gertrud.

Fonts (selection)

• Johannes Henricus Scholten : The oldest evidence regarding the writings of the New Testament . Bremen 1867 (translation from: De oudste getuigenissen aangaande de schriften des Nieuwen Testament , 1866).
• The centenary birthday of Alexander von Humboldt . In: Norddeutsches Protestantenblatt, Bremen (2) 1869, pp. 469–475.
• Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck: Strasbourg's great Stettmeister and Scholarch: Stand speech given in Strasbourg ... on July 14, 1870 .
• The parties of the Christian community, measured against the principles of Jesus and the Apostle Paul : Lecture: together with an open letter to Prof. Dr. theol. M. Baumgarten in Rostock.
• Johannes Henricus Scholten: The Free Will (Leiden 1859), German by Carl Manchot, Critical Investigation (1874)
• Christianity and the modern worldview . Bremen 1882.
• Martin Crugot , the older poet of Schiller's insurmountable fleet . 1886
• The Holy. A contribution to the historical understanding of the Revelation of St. John etc. Leipzig 1887.
• The Apostle Paul's missionary call to the Protestant Germans: Sermon at the annual celebration of the Hamburg main association of the Evangelical-Protestant Mission Association on December 6, 1888 in St. Nicolaikirche . Hamburg 1888
• Children's home on the Uhlenhorst . Hamburg 1892.
• The Christ of Michelangelo in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome . Hamburg 1898.
• The milk kitchen at St. Gertrud . Hamburg 1905.

literature

• Manchot, Karl Hermann In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Leipzig 1905–1909, Volume 13, p. 205.
• Obituary in the Hamburger Fremdblatt dated December 18, 1909
• Grave memorial in the Hamburger Fremdblatt from July 11, 1911
• Manchot, Carl Hermann In: Bremische Biographie of the nineteenth century . (Ed. Historical Society of the Künstlerverein.) Bremen, Winter, 1912
• In memory of D. theol. and Dr. phil. Carl Hermann Manchot, Pastor to St. Gertrud (Ed .: Church Council of St. Gertrud) Hamburg, 1910

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Wikisource: Carl Hermann Manchot  - Sources and full texts

• Manchot, Karl Hermann in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon