Carl Nicolaus Emanuel Rotermund

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Carl Nicolaus Emanuel Rotermund (* December 23, 1846 July / January 4,  1847 greg. In Libau ; † February 23, 1925 ) was a German-Baltic Lutheran theologian.

Life

family

Carl Nicolaus Emanuel Rotermund is said to have been a member or descendant of the Kurland line of the noble Rotermund family. His grandfather, Karl Friedrich Rotermund, was a merchant in Goldingen around 1800 , his parents were the pastor in Libau, Eduard Heinrich Christian Rotermund (* 1802, † 1882) and Emilie Laurenz-Mester.

Rotermund married Anna Christiani (* 1850; † 1946), daughter of Dr. med. Friedrich Christiani and Emilie Michelson. From this marriage a son Paul Rotermund (* 1877; † 1944), graduate engineer, is known, who was married to Henriette Glaser.

Career

In the years 1857 to 1864 Rotermund attended the German-speaking Nicolai-Gymnasium in Libau. From 1865 to 1870 he studied theology at the University of Dorpat . Subsequently, in 1871/1872 he passed his consistorial exam in Mitau . His probationary year completed Rotermund in Edwahlen and was in Liepaja on 13 August 1872 ordained .

He began now as pastor adjunctus in Edwahlen, but was transferred to Nitau in 1873 , where he remained until 1891. He found his next job in 1891 in Bickern near Riga . From 1891 to 1895 Rotermund was rector of the deaconess house in Riga and from 1893 the pastor of the Riga city hospital.

Rotermund retired in 1907, but lived in Kirchenstrasse at least until 1913. 4 in Riga. Also in retirement, Rotermund worked as a religion teacher in Riga.

From 1919 he was pastor again at the deaconess house in Magdeburg. Presumably he had left his home under the impressions of the October Revolution . His place of death is unknown.

literature

  • Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto: Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. Dorpat 1889, p. 580, no.7915
  • Wilhelm Neander (edit.): Lexicon of Baltic German Theologians since 1920. Hanover 1988, p. 136, no. 546
  • Lars Severin: The v. Rotermund, an extinct Rügisches noble family. In: Der Herold , quarterly for heraldry, genealogy and allied sciences. Issue 3, Berlin 2012, p. 381.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard v. Fircks: The knight banks in Courland. In: Yearbook for Genealogy, Heraldry and Sphragistics . Published by the Kurland Society for Literature and Art . 1895, p. 21, no. 41
  2. ^ Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. Dorpat 1889, p. 127, no.1803
  3. ↑ Karin v. Borbély (arrangement): German-Baltic Memorial Book. Our dead from 1939–1947. Darmstadt 1991, p. 363
  4. ↑ See Rigasche Rundschau, No. 56, March 11, 1925
personal data
SURNAME Rotermund, Carl Nicolaus Emanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rottermund, Carl Nicolaus Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Libau
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1925