Carl Ochs

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Carl Ernst Christoph Ochs (born February 10, 1812 in Creglingen ; † November 16, 1873 in Melpattampakkam near Cuddalore ) was a German Protestant missionary and one of the main participants in the caste dispute .

Life

Carl Ochs was trained in the Dresden mission seminar from 1838 . On April 27, 1842 he was ordained in Greiz and on May 9, 1842 he was sent from Dresden to Tamil Nadu . On December 11, 1842 he reached India and on January 3, 1843 Tranquebar (today Tharangambadi ). On July 2, 1843, he gave his first sermon in Tamil in Poraya .

On February 2, 1845, he and missionary Heinrich Cordes took over the Mayavaram station (today Mayiladuthurai). In 1847 he married Sarah Walton, the daughter of a British missionary from the London Missionary Society . The couple had a son, Georg Ludwig (* 1861), and a daughter, Anna Caroline (* 1863), who grew up as foster children with Pastor Alexander Michelsen in Lübeck from July 1866 . In Mayavaram he founded a school for girls orphans in 1847.

In February 1854, he asked one of the first native preacher candidates, Nallatambi, to eat with the missionaries, which would have meant a break with his caste for him. Nallatambi refused, and there was a dispute over the years, the caste dispute . Ochs was on home leave from April 3, 1855 to December 28, 1856. During this time he wrote in Mölln , where Pastor Adolf Moraht was an important supporter, a memorandum How does the caste in India relate to Christianity and especially to the Christian teaching level? .

On June 2, 1859, Ochs left the Leipzig Mission, which did not want to ask anyone to leave his caste on this issue. He began his own independent missionary work supported by his supporters. On July 20, 1861 he founded Bethany in Pattampakam near Cuddalore as the first station of the mission without caste and worked there until his death. In 1863 he joined the Danish Mission. His mission station became the nucleus of today's Arcot Lutheran Church .

Fonts

  • The mission, the Samaritan service of the church: a lecture. Nuremberg: Raw 1856
  • The caste in East India and its history in the ancient Lutheran mission. Rostock: Leopold 1860
Digitized in the Internet Archive
  • Adolf Moraht (Ed.): An urgent response to the accusations renewed against me in No. 15 of last year's Leipzig Mission Gazette. Rendsburg: Upper Reich 1860
Digitized , British Library

literature

  • Brenton Hamline Badley: Indian Missionary Directory and Memorial Volume. London: Trubner 1876, p. 225
  • Adolf Moraht : The Lutheran Mission and the Caste in East India. Rostock: Stiller 1860 ( digitized , Bavarian State Library )
  • Andreas Nehring: Orientalism and Mission: the representation of Tamil society and religion by Leipzig missionaries 1840-1940. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2003 Zugl .: Habil.-Schrift ISBN 3-447-04790-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Weimann: Alexander Michelsen and Johann Hinrich Wichern. In: Zeitschrift des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 45 (1965), pp. 41–84, here pp. 60 and 68
  2. ↑ See the (critical) review by Richard Handmann: The Evangelical Lutheran Tamulen Mission in the time of its re-establishment: a contribution to the history of the Evangelical Mission in the 19th century. Leipzig: Hinrich 1903, p. 458ff
  3. ↑ Arcot Lutheran Church ( Memento of the original dated December 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , National Council of Churches in India; Arcot Lutheran Church @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nccindia.in
personal data
SURNAME Ochs, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ochs, Carl Ernst Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical missionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Creglingen
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1873
Place of death Melpattampakkam at Cuddalore