Carl Wendt (theologian)

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Carl Ernst Georg Christian Wendt (born August 6, 1837 in Neubrandenburg ; † December 17, 1911 there ) was a German theologian and high school teacher.

Life

Carl Wendt was the son of Neubrandenburg locksmith Office Master and citizen (Johann) Carl Wendt (* 1808) and his wife, the Stargarder baker's daughter Marie, born Schmidt (* 1813) born. He attended grammar school in Neubrandenburg, passed his A-levels at Easter 1856 and studied Protestant theology in Erlangen and Rostock from 1856 to 1859 . After a period as private tutor he was a teacher at the Carolinum grammar school in Neustrelitz from 1863 to 1868 . At the same time he was the instructor of the Hereditary Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich (V) of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1863 to 1866 .

Wendt left grammar school in 1868 and became a pastor in Grünow . In 1879 he came to the Marienkirche in Neubrandenburg, where he initially worked as a second pastor and became its first pastor in 1890. In 1896 he was elected to the preposition of the synod . In 1908 he retired and was honored with the title of Council of Churches.

Carl Wendt was married to Friederike (Dorothea Helene), born in 1868. Raeth (1849–1909), a daughter of the Neustrelitz merchant Ludwig Raeth. The couple's sons also embarked on an academic career. Karl Wendt (1869–1942) also studied theology and became school director in Neubrandenburg, Erich Wendt (* 1871) and Viktor Wendt (* 1877) studied medicine.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 10712 .
  • Georg Krüger : The pastors in Stargard since the Reformation. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 69 (1904), pp. 1-270 ( full text , here p. 138).
  • Karl Rieck : Festschrift for the centenary celebration on October 10, 1906. History of the Carolinum grammar school in the first century of its existence. Bohl, Neustrelitz 1906, pp. 66–67 ( digitized version )
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Supplementary Volume II [Enth. also: The former Strelitz parishes ]. Wismar 1937, p. 121.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ matrikel 26/1858 in Rostock Matrikelportal
  2. ↑ matrikel 46/1893 in Rostock Matrikelportal
  3. ↑ matrikel 60/1898 in Rostock Matrikelportal
personal data
SURNAME Wendt, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wendt, Carl Ernst Georg Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubrandenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1911
Place of death Neubrandenburg