Carl Scholl

Theodor Schultz: Portrait of the theologian Carl Scholl, 1848

Carl Scholl (born August 17, 1820 in Karlsruhe , † March 26, 1907 in Munich ) was a German writer , revolutionary and theologian .

Life

Carl Scholl, who came from a pastor's family, studied philosophy and Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen from 1838 and graduated from the Preachers' Seminar in Heidelberg in 1842 . He worked as a teacher and assistant preacher in Karlsruhe. After a service on January 5, 1845 in the Protestant town church , he was suspended because of pantheism and relativism . Thereupon he became a preacher of the free religious congregation of Mannheim, founded on August 17, 1845, but resigned his office because the congregation rejected the right to vote for women . In the revolutionary year of 1848 he took part in political events; he went to Austria , where he held mass rallies in Vienna. In Graz he founded a German Catholic congregation with Johannes Ronge , but was persecuted and expelled from the country after the collapse of the revolution. He became a preacher in the free Christian community in Schweinfurt , had to flee again, returned to Karlsruhe via London and Paris via London and Paris , although he was looking for a wanted record , then had to flee again and went to Zurich . There he was head of the Aktientheater until he came to Freiburg im Breisgau in 1858 as theater director. In 1860, the Mannheim German Catholic community hired him again as a preacher; But when he wanted to enforce the abolition of the Lord's Supper and the wearing of the gown in ritual acts such as funeral ceremonies, baptisms , weddings and pastoral care , a split broke out. Until 1868 he remained a preacher in the free religious community of Mannheim . He then became a preacher in Nuremberg and gained notoriety beyond the free religious communities. His lectures were printed and distributed and, with the support of the Nuremberg community, he succeeded in introducing free religious instruction. From 1869 he published the monthly Let there be light! Contributions to the promotion of the religion of humanity . In this he spread the teachings and views of his friend, the philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach , for whom he also gave the funeral speech at the Nuremberg Johannisfriedhof . Carl Scholl died in Munich in 1907. His ashes were buried in a grave of honor in Mannheim.

meaning

Carl Scholl not only had a significant impact within the free religious movement. His commitment to humanism, for equal rights for women, against anti-Semitism and peace also reached the middle classes in southern Germany. The local labor movement was also heavily influenced by him.

Works

• From high days: the awakening d. Ghosts in Austria; Talking u. Speeches, go during d. Revolution in Vienna a. Graz from September 1848 until my ID card in May 1849. Lüstenöder, Berlin 1849.
• My suspension. 1846.
• On the way to the truth. Zurich 1854.
• For the unification of the confessions in the religion of humanity. 1860.
• From the life of a free church. 1863.
• Ed .: Free voices from today's France, England and America on the vital question of religion. 1865.
• Ludwig Feuerbach's last years at Rechenberg near Nuremberg . In: The Gazebo . Issue 45, 1872, pp. 743-748 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
• Judaism and its world mission. 1880.
• The free religious communities in the service of enlightenment and reconciliation. 1895.

literature

• Dagmar Herzog: Intimacy and exclusion. Religious politics in pre-revolutionary Baden . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1996
• Carl-Jochen Müller: Carl Scholl . Mannheim 1995
• Eckhart Pilick: Lexicon of free religious people . Guhl, Rohrbach [1997]

swell

• Mannheim City Archive: Holdings of the Free Religious Community Mannheim, access 38/1996

Web links

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