Carl Mirbt

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Carl Theodor Mirbt (born July 21, 1860 in Gnadenfrei , Reichenbach district ; † September 27, 1929 in Göttingen ) was a German Protestant church historian and missiologist.

Carl Mirbt around 1925

Life

family

Carl Mirbt was married to Margarethe geb. Wagner, the daughter of the geographer Hermann Wagner . Mirbt's children are Hermann , Ida (1893–1984), Heinz (1894–1915), Rudolf and Carl Alexander Mirbt (1902–1975).

education

Mirbt studied theology in Halle, Erlangen and Göttingen from 1880 to 1885. During his studies in Göttingen, he became a member of the Thuringia Academic Theological Association . In 1888 he received his doctorate at the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen with a dissertation on the subject of Augustine's position in the publicity of the Gregorian church dispute. Also in 1888 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen for the subject of church history.

Professional development

In 1889 he became associate professor for church history at the University of Marburg and in 1890 full professor there. 1903/04 he held the post of rector . From 1911 until his retirement in 1928, Mirbt was professor of church history at the University of Göttingen, where he again served as rector in 1920/21. In 1914 he became an honorary philistine of the Göttingen Wingolf student association .

In 1918 Mirbt founded the German Society for Mission Studies , which he chaired until his death. From 1927 to 1929 he was chairman of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony. In 1921 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Works

  • Journalism in the Age of Gregory VII. Leipzig: Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1894. Reprint Leipzig 1965.
  • Sources on the history of the papacy . Freiburg, Leipzig: Mohr, 1895. From the second edition under the title Sources for the history of the papacy and Roman Catholicism . Tübingen Leipzig 1901. Third edition Tübingen 1911. Fourth edition Tübingen 1924.
  • The Prussian legation at the Pope's court . Leipzig: Bookstore d. Evangel. Federal, 1899.
  • The Catholic theological faculty in Marburg: a contribution to the history of the Catholic Church in Kurhessen and Nassau . Marburg: Elwert, 1905.
  • Mission and Colonial Policy in the German Protected Areas . Tübingen 1910.
  • History of the Catholic Church from the mid-18th century to the Vatican Council . Berlin [u. a.]: Göschen'sche Verl.buchh., 1913.
  • The Evangelical Mission in German East Africa. In: Koloniale Monatsblätter , vol. 15, 1913, pp. 108–111.
  • The Evangelical Mission: an introduction to its history and character . Leipzig: Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1917.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report of the Thuringia. Akad-Theol. Connection to the Georgia Augusta in Göttingen. Summer semester 1907 - summer semester 1909. p. 16.
  2. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Born in 1919. p. 2.
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 170.

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personal data
SURNAME Mirbt, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mirbt, Carl Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant church historian and missiologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Free of mercy , Reichenbach district
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1929
Place of death Goettingen