Christoph Hoffmann (theologian)

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Christoph Hoffmann (1815–1885)

Gottlob Christoph Jonathan Hoffmann (* December 2, 1815 in Leonberg ; † December 8, 1885 in Rephaim near Jerusalem) was the founder of the German Temple Society .

Christoph Hoffmann, son of the notary and mayor Gottlieb Wilhelm Hoffmann and his third wife Beate Baumann (1774–1852) and younger half-brother of the Protestant theologian Wilhelm Hoffmann , studied Protestant theology , philosophy and history at the Evangelical Monastery in Tübingen . In 1840 he became a repetitionist at the Evangelical Monastery and in 1841 a teacher at the salon near Ludwigsburg, where he married Pauline Paulus, the daughter of the school founder Beate Paulus , in the same year .

In 1848 he became a member of the German National Assembly , from 1853 to 1855 head of the evangelistic school in St. Chrischona near Basel and in 1854, in conjunction with Christoph Paulus, issued a call for a great emigration of the faithful to Palestine in order to pass the law of the there with all pious Jews and Catholics To fulfill Moses . For the time being, a start was made in Kirschenhardthof near Burgstetten , whereupon in 1861 a renewed appeal to Christianity for the foundation of a central shrine in Jerusalem was issued. In 1858 he made his first research trip to Palestine, where he moved in 1868.

Well-organized colonies in Haifa , Jaffa and Sarona were established in Palestine since 1869 , and in 1878 the central administration of the German Temple was moved to Jerusalem.

But since the founder declared war on the basic Trinitarian and Christological doctrines of the church in the Süddeutsche Warte and in his book Occident und Orient (Stuttgart 1875), the Reichsbrüderbund zu Haifa under the temple director Georg David Hardegg (1812–1879) decided to renounce the main temple Come on.

Hoffmann published Bible Studies (1882–1884, 2 volumes) and his autobiography Mein Weg nach Jerusalem (1882–1884, 2 volumes).

Son Christoph Hoffmann II

Christoph Hoffmann II (1847-1911)

Hoffmann's son Christoph (1847-1911) became head of the Temple Society from 1890, after it was headed from 1884 to 1890 by Christoph Paulus.

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SURNAME Hoffmann, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoffmann, Gottlob Christoph Jonathan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the German Temple Society
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Leonberg
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1885
Place of death Rephaim near Jerusalem