Carl Stahn

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Johann Carl Stahn (born November 29, 1808 in Berlin ; † May 18, 1891 ibid) was a German Protestant theologian and consistorial councilor.

Life

Stahn was the younger son of Johann Gottfried Stahn (1764-1849), who worked as a preacher at the Marienkirche in Berlin , and Caroline Sophie Harras. His older brother was the lawyer Johann Gustav Stahn (1806–1879).

Stahn studied theology in Berlin and Munich. From 1834 he was a candidate for the cathedral and assistant preacher at the Berlin cathedral candidate alumnate, which later became the cathedral candidate foundation . On 27 July 1835 he was appointed preacher at the Konkordienkirche in Landsberg on the Warta ordained . In September 1837 he was appointed as a preacher at the Royal Cadet Institute in Berlin. He held this office until 1852.

In the same year a new field of activity opened up for Stahn: After the death of the long-standing first preacher at the Friedrichswerder Church , Georg Friedrich August Pauli (1775-1851), the former second preacher Ernst Orth (1803-1892) occupied his office, and Stahn was called to the vacant post of second preacher. He was introduced to this office on January 2, 1853 and remained at Friedrichswerder until he retired on June 1, 1886.

In the fall of 1861 Stahnsdorfer has been selected as successor to Carl Gustav Beneke (1800-1864) in the by Carl Otto Friedrich von Voss -led (1786-1864) Consistory of the province of Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church in Prussia called and appointed consistory. He worked in the consistory until he was passed on November 22, 1873.

Stahn was married to Antonie von Knobelsdorff (1817–1900), a descendant of the architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff . From the marriage of his daughter Klara to the pastor Eduard Nithack, his grandson Walther Nithack-Stahn (1866–1942) emerged, who from 1906 preached at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

Stahn's grave in the Friedrichswerder churchyard

His grave is in the Friedrichswerder Cemetery II in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

Fonts

  • The blessing of death. Sermon at the celebration in 1834 in memory of the dead. Held in St. Mary's Church . Berlin 1835.
  • Funeral speech after the death of His Majesty King Friedrich Wilhelm the Third on June 14, 1840 in the prayer room of the Royal Cadet Institute in Berlin . Mittler, Berlin 1840.
  • Sermon at the celebration of the feast of the dead, on November 25th, 1855, as the 25th Sunday after Trinity in the St. Gertraud Church in Berlin . Wohlgemuth, Berlin 1855.
  • Sermons . Kritz, Berlin 1857.
  • Words of grateful memory on the coffin of the Evangelical Bishop etc. Dr. Georg Carl Benjamin Ritschl . Schultze, Berlin 1858.
  • "Our Confession of Faith". Sermon on the 3rd Sunday after Trinity . Chun, Berlin 1877.
  • Importance of the Christian press. Sermon given at the annual festival of the German Evangelical Book and Tract Society in Berlin on Ascension Day 1881 . Publishing house of the German Evangelical Book and Tractate Society, Berlin 1881.

literature

  • Friedrich Gustav Lisco : To the church history of Berlin. A historical and statistical contribution . Hayn, Berlin 1857.
  • Karl Themel : The members and the leadership of the Berlin Consistory from 1816-1900 . In: Yearbook for Berlin-Brandenburg Church History 43 (1968), pp. 55–111.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Neue Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 27, 1849. Voigt, Weimar 1851, pp. 586–589 ( GBS )
  2. ^ Lisco: On the history of the church in Berlin , p. 104 ( GBS )
  3. ↑ a b Lisco: On the Church History of Berlin , p. 49 ( GBS )
  4. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Potsdam and the City of Berlin . Piece 37, September 15, 1837, p. 284 ( GBS )
  5. ^ Themel: The members and the leadership of the Berlin Consistory from 1816–1900 , p. 90 f.
  6. ↑ The details of the exact date are contradictory in Themel: On p. 77 he states October 26, 1861, on p. 82 November 26.
  7. ↑ Stahn's brother Gustav was at almost the same time, from 1862 to 1877, in the Evangelical Oberkirchenrat as senior consistorial councilor.
  8. ^ Themel: The members and the leadership of the Berlin Consistory from 1816–1900 , p. 82
personal data
SURNAME Stahn, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stahn, Johann Carl; Stahn, Karl; Stahn, Johann Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and consistorial councilor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1891
Place of death Berlin