Deocar Schmid

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Deocar Schmid (born November 14, 1791 in Lobeda near Jena , † December 3, 1828 in Calcutta ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Deocar Schmid's father was Rudolph Ludwig Schmid, deacon and pastor of Wöllnitz , who was appointed as a preacher in Sulzbach near Apolda in 1796 .

At Easter 1803 Deocar Schmid came to the Domgymnasium Naumburg together with his older brother Ludwig Bernhard Schmid . He qualified for a university visit before he was 17 and began his theological studies at the University of Jena in 1808 . There he heard his uncle Carl Christian Erhard Schmid's lectures on the teachings of Immanuel Kant .

In 1811 he was examined in Weimar and studied until 1813, since he had received the Haker scholarship. He then went to Wölfis near Gotha as a private tutor and later to Königsberg .

By reading mission reports, he made the decision to become a missionary . He applied to the English Church Mission Society and was accepted by them.

On March 7, 1815, he was the Oberkonsistorialrat and later Bishop Ludwig Ernst Borowski at Königsberg ordained . Deocar Schmid then went to London and represented the preacher of the Savoy Chapel, Dr. Carl Friedrich Adolf Steinkopf , who stayed in Germany for a long time.

The older brother Ludwig Bernhard Schmid honor God, meanwhile, had a pastorate in Eifel in Kirchenkreis Trarbach had received, but gave it back to be in Paris to study Oriental languages and literature. Deocar Schmid was able to convince him to also become a missionary. In 1817 the two brothers sailed together with Deocar Schmid's wife Maria, née Rönneberg, from Bremen , to Madras ; they arrived there on August 4, 1817. On November 5, 1817, the two brothers met a group of Protestants, Catholics and Hindus in Madras and together they founded the Tamil Bible Association . Initially, the brothers stayed in Tharangambadi to set up a mission station , but Deocar Schmid was sent to Calcutta in 1818.

Deocar Schmid founded two associations in Calcutta and in East India:

  • Bible Association ;
  • Apprenticing Society , with the purpose of placing Indo-British (descendants of English and Hindus in mixed marriages) as apprentices with artisans; from this association later the sea school of Calcutta arose.

Deocar died of liver disease at the age of 37. His widow returned to her relatives in Bremen on his advice.

Works

  • Do the Christian scriptures or the Védas contain a divine revelation: the question briefly discussed in a letter to Rammohun Roy . Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1819.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen - 7th year - 1829, pp. 47–51 . Voigt, 1831 ( google.de [accessed on February 21, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, p. 134 ff. Leipzig, 1825 ( google.de [accessed on February 21, 2018]).
  3. ↑ D. Georg Christian Knapp (ed.): Modern history of the evangelical mission institutions for the conversion of the Gentiles in East India: from d. personal essays u. Letters of the Missionaries 1819, p. 814 . Orphanage, 1819 ( google.de [accessed February 21, 2018]).
  4. ^ Heinrich Berghaus (Ed.): Journal of Earth, Ethnology and State Studies, Volume 12, p. 253 . In the JG Cotta'schen buchhandlung, 1828 ( google.de [accessed on February 21, 2018]).
  5. ^ State and society lexicon: new conversation lexicon: in connection with German scholars and statesmen, p. 344 . F. Heinicke, 1865 ( google.de [accessed on February 21, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Deocar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and missionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Lobeda
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1828
Place of death Calcutta