Carola Barth

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Carola Barth (born September 23, 1879 in Bad Salzschlirf as Magdalene Wilhelmine Barth; † May 17, 1959 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a senior degree director and theologian .

Life

After attending the teachers' seminar in Frankfurt, Carola Barth studied theology and history from 1902 and received her doctorate in Protestant theology at the University of Jena in 1907 - as the first woman in this subject at a German university. In 1908/09, she was the first woman ever to receive a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute in the field of Christian archeology for her dissertation . She then worked as a teacher in Frankfurt am Main and was a member of the city council as a member of the DDP from 1919 to 1921 . From 1919 she was a member of the German Evangelical Church Committee , the executive body of the German Evangelical Church Federation . In 1921 she became head of the city's Lyceum in Cologne-Mülheim and moved in 1925 to the Cologne Merlo Mevissen-school run by Matilda of Mevissen founded the first fully satisfying Cologne until graduation leading girls' school. When the school was closed in 1934 as a result of National Socialist policies, it was prematurely retired. In 1945 she was one of the founders of the CDU and sat for them in the Frankfurt city parliament from 1946 to 1954. There she belonged to the liberal wing.

In 1927 she received an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Königsberg , and in 1952 the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Carola Barth was involved in numerous, also international, associations u. a. for the reform of religious education and a liberal Christianity. In 1913 she took over the chairmanship of the "Association for Religious Education" and advocated religious instruction based on developmental psychology and the history of religion. In 1930 she was involved in the founding of the “Association of Protestant Theologians”, which advocated the right of women to a full pastoral office. As a co-founder of the Confederation for Free Christianity in 1948, she was a pioneer of liberal theology. In her church she was a champion of women's politics and ecumenism (as a member of the Una Sancta movement ).

Fonts (selection)

  • The Interpretation of the New Testament in the Valentinian Gnosis . Inaugural dissertation to obtain a license from the Jena Theological Faculty, Leipzig 1908.
  • Modern images of life in religious education . In: Journal for Protestant religious instruction at higher educational institutions 24 , 1912/13.
  • Free Christianity and women . In: Blätter für religious education (1913), pp. 65–69.
  • The civil equality of women . In: The Christian Democrat. Weekly paper for the evangelical house 1 , 1919.
  • Church women's service . In: Volkskirche 22 , 1920.
  • What does denominational religious instruction mean? In: Monthly sheets for Protestant religious instruction 15 , 1922.
  • Religious instruction as religious education. From the practice of my religious instruction , Göttingen 1931.
  • Deeds in God's power. Toyohiko Kagawa - His Life for Christ and Japan . Heilbronn: Salzer Verl., 1936 (4th, extended edition 1953). Dutch: Toyohiko Kagawa: Christians en vormer. Amsterdam 1952.
  • Protestantism and Judaism . In: Knud C. Knudsen (ed.): World without hatred. Leading academics from all faculties comment on burning German problems . Berlin 1950.

literature

  • Dagmar Henze: Two steps forward and one backward: Carola Barth - a theologian on the way between Christianity and the women's movement (= Neukirchen theological dissertations and habilitation theses; Vol. 2). Neukirchener, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1996.
  • Dagmar Henze: Carola Barth (1879-1959). Career between commitment and adaptation . In: Annebelle Pithan (ed.): Religious educators of the 20th century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997, pp. 40-53.
  • Harald Schroeter-Wittke : The other Barth. Religious educational views on the missing picture by Carola Barth (1879–1959) . In: Reinhard Schmidt-Rost , Stephan Bitter, Martin Dutzmann (eds.): Theology as mediation. Portraits of 19th century Protestant theologians from Bonn. Friedrich Wintzer on his 70th birthday , Rheinbach 2003, pp. 241–247.
  • Astrid Standhartinger: Lic. Theol. Carola Barth . In: Lexicon of early Protestant theologians , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2005, p. 23.

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personal data
SURNAME Barth, Carola
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barth, Magdalene Wilhelmine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German senior director and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Salzschlirf
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1959
Place of death Frankfurt am Main