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

1. ^ Heinrich Laehr : The sanatorium and nursing home for the mentally ill in the German-speaking area , Berlin 1882, p. 50.
2. ↑ Neuerkeröder Blätter , Issue 108, December 2018, p. 33 ( online )
3. ^ Braunschweig address book for the year 1917 , 103rd edition, entry Palmer, Karl, Propst, Gerstäckerstr. 11
4. ^ Yearbooks for German Theology , Volume 17, Gotha, 1872, p. 568f (review).