Eduard Arnold Veerhoff

Eduard Arnold Veerhoff (born April 10, 1838 in Rheda , Westphalia , Kingdom of Prussia ; † February 6, 1908 in Goldberg , Province of Silesia , Kingdom of Prussia) was a German Lutheran preacher and school principal.

Life

The father Heinrich Ludwig Veerhoff was a textile entrepreneur and owned a bleaching factory in Rheda, the mother was Katharina Elisabeth, née Barkey. The boy attended high school in Gütersloh . From 1868 he studied Protestant theology in Halle , from 1859 in Tübingen , from 1861 in Münster , where he passed the first exam in 1863.

Afterwards Eduard Veerhoff worked as a teacher in the deaconess house in Duisburg and completed the second exam in Münster in 1865. He then worked at the cadet house in Culm as a cadet governor (assistant teacher) and in Pomerania as a private tutor.

In 1867 Eduard Veerhoff was ordained in St. Louis , Missouri, likely at Concordia Seminary . In the following period he was a preacher in the area, probably in the area of ​​the Missouri Synod.

Verhoff was back in Germany in 1871, first as school rector and afternoon preacher in Doberlug in Niederlausitz, in 1872 as school rector in Hadmersleben and in 1873 as rector and assistant preacher in Leitzkau , both in the Prussian province of Saxony . In 1875 he became pastor in Kröbeln near Liebenwerda in Niederlausitz.

After his retirement in 1880, Eduard Veerhoff worked as an assistant pastor in Konradswaldau in Lower Silesia from 1884 to 1888 . He spent his last years in Goldberg in Silesia.

Eduard Arnold Veerhoff represented a conservative, traditional theology. In 1896 he published his own revised version of the New Testament based on Luther.

Web links

• Eduard Arnold Veerhoff Archive Vegelahn
• Eduard Arnold Veerhoff biography