Carl Schneider (theologian, 1870)

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Carl Schneider (born February 22, 1870 in Werschweiler / Saar , † January 31, 1943 in Hamburg ) was a Baptist theologian and lecturer in practical theology at the seminary of the German Baptists in Hamburg-Horn .

Life

After completing his school education and apprenticeship, Carl Schneider came to Berlin as a journeyman, where he met the Baptists. After a special conversion experience, he was baptized and a few years later his congregation recommended him to study at the Baptist seminary in Hamburg-Horn. After his studies, which he completed from 1895 to 1899, the Baptist congregation in Hamburg-Eilbek called him to be their preacher. In 1911 Schneider moved to the Dresden community . He stayed there until 1920 and then returned to Eilbek for two years.

In 1922 the Union of German Baptists appointed him administrative director and householder of its theological training center in Hamburg-Horn. At the same time he was given a lectureship in practical theology, which he held until his retirement in 1939. His particular interest was here the service whose liturgical enrichment and a pastorally oriented homiletics .

In addition to his pastoral, administrative and teaching duties, Carl Schneider was active in important management functions of the German Baptist Union, for example from 1905 as a member of the United Federal Baptist Administration. Schneider also worked in a responsible position in the diaconal area. Among other things, he was chairman of the Deaconess House of Siloam .

Selected works

  • Pious and cheerful. Poetic stories for little people , Kassel 1905
  • The hero of Uganda. Life and work of the pioneer missionary Alexander Mackay , Kassel 1911
  • The Christian community according to its necessity, possibility and reality , 1924
  • The beautiful services of the Lord. A contribution to its history, its principles and its design , Kassel 1927
  • But we preach ... - A sermon and lecture teaching , Kassel 1930
  • From the youth. Narrative poems from the early days of German Baptism and its founder Johann Gerhard Oncken. Presented to the German Baptist youth for the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the first Baptist congregation in Europe , Kassel 1934
  • The work of an evangelical preacher. An apprenticeship for servants at the word and the community , 1937
  • Municipality and State , undated
  • The Christian community and contemporary cultural life , undated

literature

  • Hans Fehr: The life picture of Carl Schneider ; in: Predigerseminar Hamburg-Horn in the anniversary year 1955. Commemorative publication to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Preachers' Seminar of the Evangelical Free Churches (Baptists) in Germany ; Hamburg-Horn 1955; Pp. 46-51
  • Günter Balders : One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. 150 years of Baptist congregations in Germany ; Wuppertal, Kassel 1985 2 ; ISBN 3-7893-7883-6 ; Pp. 359–360 (short biography)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Since 1997 the German theological training center of the Baptists has been in Wustermark-Elstal.
  2. ↑ Günter Balders: One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. 150 years of Baptist congregations in Germany ; Wuppertal and Kassel 1985 2 ; P. 359
  3. ↑ Today Albertinen Hospital Hamburg-Schnelsen; compare history of the Albertinen Diakoniewerk ; accessed on 23 August 2010
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baptist theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Werschweiler
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1943
Place of death Hamburg