Christian Palmer

Christian David Friedrich Palmer (born January 27, 1811 in Winnenden ; † May 29, 1875 in Tübingen ) was a professor of Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen.

Live and act

After attending the lower Evangelical seminary in Schöntal (1824-1828), he joined the Evangelical Monastery of Tübingen and studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen until his first official examination in 1832 . He completed his vicariate in Bissingen and Plieningen near Stuttgart. In 1836 he passed the second theological examination and then worked as a repetitionist at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen . In 1839 he became second pastor in Marbach / N. , In 1843 second and in 1848 first pastor in Tübingen , and in 1852 dean. Since 1846 he had a teaching position at the University of Tübingen , and in 1852 he was appointed professor of practical theology . In 1857 he was the rector of the university.

Palmer was a Swabian mediating theologian who combined science and practice on the basis of his evangelical biblical faith, and who dealt with Christianity and general education in teaching and research. Contemporaries admired his ability to present what he had grasped clearly, full of light in fluent language. He was also active as a composer.

On April 25, 1839, he married one of his piano students, Wilhelmine Bossert .

Fonts (selection)

Evangelical casual speeches, Stuttgart 1865 (title page)

• Revision of the new draft hymn book for the Evangelical Church of Württemberg , Stuttgart 1840.
• Evangelical casual speeches , Stuttgart 1865
• Evangelical Homiletics , Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1842 (6th edition 1887).
• Evangelical Catechetics , Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1844 (6th edition 1875).
• Evangelical pedagogy , two volumes, Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1853 (5th edition 1882).
• A vintage of Protestant sermons , Liesching, Stuttgart 1857.
• Evangelical pastoral theology , Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1860 (2nd edition 1863).
• The morality of Christianity , Liesching, Stuttgart 1864.
• Evangelical hymnology , Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1865.
• Spiritual and secular for educated Christian readers , Laupp, Tübingen 1873.
• More recent sermons , Laupp, Tübingen 1874.
• The communities and sects of Wuerttembergs. Laupp, Tübingen 1877.

literature

• Theodor Schott :  Palmer, Christian David Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 104-110.
• Helmut Anselm: Religious Education in the System of Speculative Theology. Investigations into the work of Christian Palmer as a contribution to the formation of theories in religious education today (= Munich monographs on historical and systematic theology, Volume 8). Kaiser, Munich 1982. ISBN 3-459-01435-0 .
• Werner Jetter : In remembrance of the beginnings of the Evangelical Preacher Institute and the professor of practical theology Dr. Christian David Friedrich (von) Palmer (1811-1875) . In: Blätter für Württembergische Kirchengeschichte, Volume 90 (1990), pp. 208–226.
• Reiner Goy: Church doctrine or pedagogy. A study on the Catholic pedagogy of GM Dursch and on the Protestant pedagogy of Chr. Palmer , dissertation Gießen 1996.
• Hans Martin Dober: Christian Palmer. A practical theologian in the age of the bourgeois way of thinking and living . In: Blätter für Württembergische Kirchengeschichte, Volume 103 (2003), pp. 197–213.
• Georg Günther: "A second Orpheus". Christian Palmer. Deacon and composer in Marbach am Neckar (1839-1843) , Schillerverein, Marbach am Neckar 2003 (straight prints, volume 7), ISBN 3-933679-80-X .
• Volker Drehsen u. a. (Ed.): Christian Palmer and the practical theology (= interdisciplinary studies for practical theology. Vol. 1). Garamond, Jena 2013, ISBN 978-3-944830-03-2 .

Web links

Wikisource: Christian Palmer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor Schott :  Palmer, Christian David Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 104-110.