Christian Gottlieb Blumhardt

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Christian Gottlieb Blumhardt (born April 29, 1779 in Stuttgart , † December 19, 1838 in Basel ) was a German Protestant theologian and co-founder of the Basel Mission .

Life

Blumhardt grew up as the son of a shoemaker in a pietistic family . From 1798 to 1803 he studied Protestant theology in Tübingen .

After completing his studies, Blumhardt succeeded Carl Friedrich Adolf Steinkopf as secretary of the German Christianity Society in Basel. Here he was one of the founders of the Basel Bible Society on October 31, 1804 . In 1807 he returned to the Württemberg church service, first as vicar in Derendingen , then from 1809 as pastor in Bürg . In 1816 another call to Basel followed, where on September 25, 1815 Christian Friedrich Spittler and others founded the "Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft Basel" (Basler Mission) as a subsidiary of the German Christianity Society. Blumhardt became their first inspector. On August 26, 1816, he opened a mission school, which subsequently trained numerous missionaries who initially left on behalf of Dutch and British missionary societies. As the Basel mission grew stronger, Blumhardt took a look at his own mission areas, first in the southern Russian Caucasus , then from 1827 in West African Liberia and from 1834 in India . By publishing the mission magazine , Blumhardt was influential in the pietistic missionary movement until his death.

Blumhardt was married to Julia Maier from Tübingen since 1809. The couple had a son and a daughter. Blumhardt is a second uncle of the theologian Johann Christoph Blumhardt, who was also born in Stuttgart .

Works

  • Lazarus, the Sick, Dying, and Raised (Homilies), 21827
  • Attempt at a General Mission History of the Church of Christ , 3 vols., 1828–37
  • Basic lines of house rules for d. ev. Missionsanstalt zu Basel , 1818, new edition. 1888

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz-Horst Schrey:  Blumhardt, Christian Gottlieb. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 334 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Bernd Moeller , Bruno Jahn: German Biographical Encyclopedia of Theology and the Churches (DBETh). Walter de Gruyter, 2011 (p. 149)
personal data
SURNAME Blumhardt, Christian Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and co-founder of the Basel Mission
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1838
Place of death Basel