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Carl Gustav Curt Stage (born May 31, 1866 in Waldenburg (Lower Silesia) , † February 21, 1931 in Wernigerode ) was a German Protestant theologian .

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Curt Stage was the son of a pastor. After graduating from high school in 1884, he studied Protestant theology. He completed his studies at the universities in Strasbourg, Jena and Berlin. He passed the two theological exams in Berlin in 1888/89. In 1890 he received a position as archdeacon there . In 1895 he went to Hamburg. Here he was pastor at the main church of St. Peter . In 1896 he became a member of the synod and in 1920 a member of the church council there.

In 1903 Curt Stage received a call as the main pastor of the main church Sankt Katharinen . From 1919 to 1923 he held the post of President of the Synod, who was elected for the first time himself, and was also a member of the Constitutional Committee. Stage worked on a 1919 provisional and 1923 final constitution and played a key role in the 1919 agendas and the 1923 hymn book. In 1920 Stage celebrated its 25th anniversary with the company. On this occasion the main pastor D. Curt-Stage-Stiftung was founded, the purpose of which was to promote community work. From 1923 until his retirement in 1929, Stage was the senior pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hamburg and its elected senior . Stage was committed to building churches and subdividing large communities into districts. He had very good organizational skills.

In 1921 Stage represented Hamburg at the German Protestant Church Congress . From 1924 to 1927 he was a member of the Council of the German Evangelical Church Federation and in 1926/27 of the Second German Evangelical Church Committee. Stage was considered a liberal and democratic, and was a member of the German Protestant Union . In school politics he tried to create a good relationship between church and state.

In 1927 Stage translated the New Testament. His work was considered the first recent free translation and made him known nationwide. The University of Strasbourg awarded him an honorary theological doctorate for the translation in 1909. From 1903, Stage taught theology in the New Testament subject as part of general lectures and held exams there. He attached importance to contemporary historical features that were connected to the New Testament texts. He pursued a historical-critical research. He saw connecting the gospel with the respective temporal culture as very important.

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predecessor Office successor
Caesar Ernst Albrecht Krause Senior pastor at St. Catherine to Hamburg
1903 - 1929 		Karl Dubbels
personal data
SURNAME Stage, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stage, Carl Gustav Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Wałbrzych
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1931
Place of death Wernigerode