Eduard Grimm
Eduard Rudolf Grimm (born August 7, 1848 in Jena , † November 11, 1932 in Emmendorf ) was a German theologian .
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Eduard Grimm was the son of a theology professor. From 1867 to 1870 he studied philosophy and theology in Jena. He took part in the Franco-German War of 1870/71 as a volunteer soldier. After the theological exam , which he passed in Hamburg in 1872 , he received his doctorate in philosophy in Jena. He then worked from 1872 to 1878 as a teacher in Hamburg, from 1878 to 1881 as a pastor in Bürgel, Thuringia, and then as archdeacon in Weimar .
In 1892 he became senior pastor at the main church St. Jacobi in Hamburg, where he was a member of the church council from 1894 to 1920. Grimm was a member of the Protestant Association , the General Evangelical-Protestant Mission Association and the Pan-German Association . When he was elected senior in 1911, he became the leading clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state ; he represented the regional church as a member of the German Evangelical Church Conference , the German Church Congress (1919 to 1921) and until 1920 in the First German Evangelical Church Committee.
Grimm took part in the preparation of the liturgical manual and the new edition of the Hamburg hymn book. Before 1916 he founded the first community nursing home in Hamburg. He has also published on philosophical, theological and religious studies issues. These included French and English philosophy , philosophy of religion and Jesus Christ . In 1903 he wrote “The Ethics of Jesus”, which was translated into Swedish and Japanese and revised and reissued in 1917. In the Scriptures, Grimm presented Jesus' position on war in a very prudent manner for the time.
In addition to academic work, Grimm taught theology at the general lectureships from the winter semester 1897/98 and at the colonial institute from the winter semester 1897/98 to 1919 . In 1897 the University of Jena awarded him an honorary theological doctorate.
After retirement in 1920 wrote Grimm retired several philosophical writings.
literature
- Rainer Hering: Grimm, Eduard . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 3 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0081-4 , p. 143 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Georg Karl Hirsche |
Chief Pastor to St. Nikolai in Hamburg 1892–1920 |
Heinz Beckmann |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grimm, Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grimm, Eduard Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1932 |
| Place of death | Emmendorf |