Dietrich Diederichs-Gottschalk

Dietrich Diederichs-Gottschalk (born July 4, 1950 ) is a German Protestant - Lutheran theologian and art historian . Because of its long name, it is mostly called "Di-Di-Go".

Life

Dietrich Diederichs-Gottschalk, son of the restorer and painter Carl Diederichs, grew up in a small village in the Harz Mountains . After attending grammar school , he studied theology and art history in Göttingen . In 1978 he was ordained pastor in Westerholt in the Harlingerland parish in East Frisia . From 1982 to 1985 he was a school pastor in Norden . He then held half a position as a school pastor in Loxstedt and half a pastor's position in Nesse (Loxstedt) until 1991 . After two years in Nordholz, he was pastor of the Unterweser parish in Sandstedt for the last 20 years until he retired (2012) .

Diederichs-Gottschalk was the first Protestant pastor in northern Germany to baptize young people and adults in one stream. In 2000 he carried out the first baptism of the Weser, which has taken place every year since then on St. John's Day, the patron saint of the church in Sandstedt. In 2004 he was at the Theological Faculty in Göttingen to Dr. theol. PhD . He published several art and church history writings. He is married to the teacher and author Felicitas Gottschalk . The couple live in Padingbüttel and have one son.

Works

with Matthias D. Schön and Gabriele Uhe: Images made of iron. Stove plates from Renaissance and Baroque. Self-published in the district of Cuxhaven, Cuxhaven 1992.
with Jürgen M. Schipper, Lothar Teckemeyer, Ulrich Ahrensmeier (photographs) and Hasso von Poser and Gross-Naedlitz (eds.): Treibgut - Grundlose Bilder von Hermann Buß . Schnell und Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-7954-1328-6 .
The Protestant written altars of the 16th and 17th centuries in northwest Germany. Schnell + Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-7954-1762-8 .
My sound points forever. The image programs for organ lofts and church furnishings in the St. Bartholomäuskirche Golzwarden and the St. Pankratiuskirche Hamburg-Neuenfelde in the context of the organs by Arp Schnitger. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7308-1404-8 .
with Michael Weisser : WhitePaperCollection 23: Michael Weisser in dialogue with Dr. Diederichs-Gottschalk. BookRix publishing house, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-7438-1200-0 .

Web links

Literature by and about Dietrich Diederichs-Gottschalk in the catalog of the German National Library
Farewell to a lateral thinker , accessed on September 26, 2018.

Individual evidence

↑ Art collector gives city works of Göttingen artists , accessed on September 28, 2018.
↑ ^a ^b Parish Sandstedt: Pastor Dr. Dietrich Diederichs-Gottschalk 1993–2012 , accessed on January 24, 2019.
^ Eduard Kopp: Religion for Beginners. When is the right time to be baptized? In: Chrismon. No. 7, 2011, pp. 24-25; Other times. Magazine for the church year. Special issue 1/2013: Longing for blessings, pp. 18–19.
↑ Dissertation: The Protestant written altars of the 16th and 17th centuries in north-west Germany: an examination of the history of churches and art on a special form of liturgical furnishings in the epoch of denominationalization .

personal data
SURNAME	Diederichs-Gottschalk, Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Di-Di-Go
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and art historian
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1950

[1] Art collector gives city works of Göttingen artists , accessed on September 28, 2018.

[KGSandstedt-2] Parish Sandstedt: Pastor Dr. Dietrich Diederichs-Gottschalk 1993–2012 , accessed on January 24, 2019.

[3] Eduard Kopp: Religion for Beginners. When is the right time to be baptized? In: Chrismon. No. 7, 2011, pp. 24-25; Other times. Magazine for the church year. Special issue 1/2013: Longing for blessings, pp. 18–19.

[4] Dissertation: The Protestant written altars of the 16th and 17th centuries in north-west Germany: an examination of the history of churches and art on a special form of liturgical furnishings in the epoch of denominationalization .