Carl Palmer (theologian)
Carl Palmer , also Karl Palmer (born October 12, 1833 in Darmstadt , † October 26, 1917 in Braunschweig ) was a German Lutheran theologian and director of the institution.
Life
Carl Palmer was born in Darmstadt in 1833. In the 1870s he was pastor in Trais-Horloff in Wetterau and then a chaplain of the Inner Mission in Bielefeld . As the successor to Gustav Stutzer , from April 1, 1880 until his retirement in 1904, he headed the Idioten-Anstalt zu Erkerode , an evangelical education and care institution for people with disabilities, which later became the Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode . He expanded this further and made it a center of the Inner Mission in the Duchy of Braunschweig . Palmer developed a targeted occupational therapy and in 1902 founded the boarding schools Emmaus and Sarona as special schools for the duchy. In 1886 he was appointed provost of the Marienberg monastery .
From 1881 he was editor of the Volksblatt , organ of the Evangelical Association for Inner Mission.
Palmer last lived in Braunschweig at Gerstäckerstraße 11. He died in Braunschweig in 1917 at the age of 84.
Fonts (selection)
- Pictures of life by writers of edification of the Lutheran Church for the Protestant Christian people by Carl Palmer, Evangelical Lutheran pastor of Trais-Horloff in the Wetterau , first volume, A. Liesching, Stuttgart, 1870.
literature
- Klaus Juergens: Palmer, Carl . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 456 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Laehr : The sanatorium and nursing home for the mentally ill in the German-speaking area , Berlin 1882, p. 50.
- ↑ Neuerkeröder Blätter , Issue 108, December 2018, p. 33 ( online )
- ^ Braunschweig address book for the year 1917 , 103rd edition, entry Palmer, Karl, Propst, Gerstäckerstr. 11
- ^ Yearbooks for German Theology , Volume 17, Gotha, 1872, p. 568f (review).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Palmer, Carl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Palmer, Karl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian and director of the institution |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1833 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Darmstadt |
DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 1917 |
Place of death | Braunschweig |