Christoph Klein (theologian)
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Christoph Michael Klein (born November 20, 1937 in Hermannstadt ) was Bishop of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania until October 2010 .
biography
Klein studied Protestant theology in Cluj-Napoca and Sibiu and obtained the title of Doctor of Theology at the Protestant Theological Institute in Cluj-Napoca (1969). Klein held his first parish parish in Katzendorf in the Kronstadt church district . From 1972 to 1976 he was pastor of Sibiu.
From 1976 to 1990 he held the chair for systematic theology at the German-speaking Evangelical Theological Faculty in Sibiu, where he had already worked as a lecturer from 1968 to 1972; from 1978 to 1986 he was dean of the faculty.
In 1982 Klein was elected Episcopal Vicar of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania; In 1990 he succeeded his predecessor, Bishop Albert Klein, at the head of the Evangelical Church AB in Romania . In the same year, Klein received an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna .
From 1994 he was vice-president of the Ecumenical Association of Churches in Romania Aidrom and since 2004 a member of the council and vice-president of the Lutheran World Federation (Geneva).
On October 16, 2010, Bishop Klein was ceremoniously retired in Sibiu. On November 27, 2010 Reinhart Guib was elected as his successor.
After the death of his first wife in 1985, Klein remarried in 1993; he has three children from his first marriage.
Honors
In 2000, Klein was made an honorary citizen of the city of Hermannstadt (Sibiu).
In 2000, Bishop Christoph Klein was awarded the National Order of Merit with the rank of high officer in a ceremony in the Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest.
In 2008, Bishop Klein was awarded the Honterus Medal by the board of the Transylvanian Forum during a ceremony in Biertan .
In 2008 he was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in the ballroom of the Bishop's Palace in Sibiu.
In 2009, Bishop Klein received the Star of Honor of the Federation of Transylvanian Saxons during a festivity in the St. Pauls Church in Dinkelsbühl.
In 2010 Klein was presented with the Golden Badge of Honor of the Association of Transylvanian-Saxon Hometown Communities.
In 2011 he was awarded the Georg Dehio Culture Prize in Berlin.
Works
Together with a variety of essays:
- Confession in the Evangelical Saxon Church in Transylvania. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht publishing house, Göttingen 1980.
- The other way. Essays on the fate of the Transylvanian Saxons as a people and church. Martin Luther Verlag, Erlangen 1986.
- In the end the light. Story of a dying. The story of a dying, Oncken Verlag, Wuppertal / Kassel 1991.
- Reconciliation in the Transylvanian-Saxon Church. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1993.
- Around the eleventh hour. Sermons. Martin Luther Verlag, Erlangen 1993.
- Entrusted pounds. Gustav Adolf Klein and the Hermannstädter Allgemeine Sparkassa. Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1995.
- Look out for the future. The Transylvanian-Saxon Church in Transition. Martin Luther Verlag, Erlangen 1998.
- When vengeance gives way to forgiveness. Theological foundations of a culture of reconciliation. Publishing house Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999.
- Counterpoint joy. Sermons from the Evangelical Church AB in Romania on special days and occasions. Hora-Verlag, Hermannstadt 2000.
- The cross-border prayer. Approaches to prayer in our time. Publishing house Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004.
- Churches of the City - City of Churches * Sibiu, Hermannstadt, Nagyszeben. Hora-Verlag, Sibiu 2007.
- At the gates to the world, spiritual speeches in the encounter with the Transylvanian cultural society. Schiller Verlag, Hermannstadt / Bonn 2012.
- On requests and understanding, twenty years in the office of bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania 1990–2010. Schiller Verlag, Hermannstadt / Bonn 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.siebenbuerger.de/zeitung/artikel/alteartikel/142-bischof-christoph-klein-ausgezeich.html
- ↑ http://www.hermannstaedter.ro/stire.php?id=535&dom=&ed=1373 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Honor for the whole church - Christoph Klein receives the Federal Cross of Merit, report on sevenbuerger.de, accessed on September 21, 2011
- ↑ http://www.hermannstaedter.ro/stire.php?id=765&dom=0018&ed=1409 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ http://www.siebenbuerger.de/zeitung/artikel/v Variousenes/10533-bischof-klein-erfaehrt-bei- seiner.html
- ↑ http://www.siebenbuerger.de/zeitung/artikel/kultur/11061-georg_dehio_kulturpreis-2011-an-dr-d.html
Web links
- Literature by and about Christoph Klein in the catalog of the German National Library
- Evangelical Church AB in Romania
- Honor for the whole church - Christoph Klein receives the Federal Cross of Merit
- Speech by the German Ambassador Andreas von Mettenheim on the occasion of the farewell to Bishop D. Dr. Christoph Klein in Sibiu on October 16, 2010
- Laudation by the German Ambassador, Roland Lohkamp, on the occasion of the awarding of the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany to Bishop D. Dr. Christoph Klein, on July 18, 2008 in the Bishop's Palace in Sibiu
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klein, Christoph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klein, Christoph Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Transylvanian-Saxon clergyman, bishop of the Evangelical Church |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sibiu |