Christian Hege (journalist)

Christian Hege (born December 20, 1869 in Bonfeld , † September 13, 1943 in Eichstätt ) was a German Mennonite journalist and historian.

Life

From 1890 to 1893 Hege studied history and economics in Munich and then worked as a business editor for Frankfurter Nachrichten . Two years after accepting the position of editor, Hege married Christine Fellmann, who would later also appear as a Mennonite historian.

As a student, Hege wrote his first articles for Mennonite magazines. In 1908, Hege finally published his first book with the historical text Die Anabapters in der Kurpfalz . In 1925, in Zurich , Hege discovered the previously lost admonition of the Baptist Pilgram Marpeck , in which Marbeck took a stand against the spiritualistic influences of Kaspar Schwenckfeld . Together with Christian Neff , Hege was also one of the initiators of the founding of the Mennonite History Association in Berlin in 1933, to which Hege remained connected as finance officer and editor of the Mennonite history sheets until his death . In 1935, A Review of 400 Years of Mennonite History was published . However, his work as co-editor and editor of the Mennonite Lexicon remained of particular importance . Hege wrote a large number of articles himself. The early Anabaptist-Mennonite history was a focus here.

Hege died in 1943 in Eichstätt, Bavaria, to which he had fled shortly before the bombs of the Second World War. Otherwise, Hege lived in Frankfurt am Main all his life . Of his four children, only his daughter Adele survived.

Works (selection)

• The Anabaptists in the Electoral Palatinate , Frankfurt a. M., 1908
• A look back at 400 years of Mennonite history , Karlsruhe 1935
• Mennonite Lexicon (edited together with Christian Neff)

Web links

• Entry in the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
• Helmut Funck: Christian Hege (journalist). In: Mennonite Lexicon . Volume 5 (MennLex 5).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Funck: Christine Hege. In: Mennonite Lexicon . Volume 5 (MennLex 5).