Ernst Buss

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Ernst Buss , also Ernst Buß (born March 15, 1843 in Tenniken ; † May 13, 1928 in Glarus ), was a Swiss Protestant clergyman.

Life

Ernst Buss was the son of the Bargen pastor Samuel Albrecht Buss (* 1809; † 1866) and his wife Anna Catharina (1819–1894), daughter of the paper manufacturer Johann Elias Samuel Kutter (1788–1864) from Bargen near Bern . His brother was Karl Emil Buss (born March 6, 1849 in Grindelwald ; † 1878), a doctor .

Although he initially wanted to be a missionary , he studied Protestant theology and religious studies at the University of Bern and was a pastor in Lenk , Zofingen , Basel and Glarus from 1870 to 1912 .

Influenced by the radical criticism of the current mission system, including by Ernst Friedrich Langhans with his work Pietism and Christianity in the Mirror of Outer Mission , and endeavoring to clarify the relationship between mission and religious history , Ernst Buss gave a series of lectures and wrote them down in 1873 Suggestion from Friedrich Nippold the award-winning book The Hague Society for the Defense of the Christian Religion The Christian Mission, Its Principal Justification and Practical Implementation , which was published in 1876 and in which his basic mission theological ideas can be found. Following on from the elements of truth in non-Christian religions, he saw their fulfillment in "Christ's Christianity". He advocated the liberation of the mission from its pietistic and confessional fetters and wanted it to be understood as the task of the entire Church. For him, conversion and baptism were not in the foreground, but the opening of foreign cultures to Christian and general Western ideas. This in turn provoked the protest of Gustav Warneck , who raised the question of the relationship between Christianization and Europeanization .

In order not to lose sight of the spiritual revolution , in his opinion, which was influenced by the religious scholar Friedrich Max Müller , scientifically trained missionaries were needed , who should first try to reach the educated and preach a dogma-free Christianity, but with the aim of a down-to-earth People's Church. For this purpose, the missionaries were made an obligation "not only to learn the language of the host country in word and writing, but also to research their thinking and to deepen their knowledge of non-Christian religions through continued study".

He founded, politically and financially supported by Grand Duke Carl Alexander on June 4, 1884 in Weimar to in Japan and China make general Evangelical Protestant missionary society (from 1929 German East Asia Mission ), whose first president he was until 1892; Among the founding members were the professors Gustav Heinrich Bassermann and Otto Pfleiderer from Berlin , the Indologist Friedrich Max Müller was an honorary member . For this purpose he founded the Journal of Missiology and Religious Studies , which he edited and 1886-1940 published and mainly from theological liberalism was born.

The landslide from Elm to Buss and Heim

In his spare time he was very busy exploring the Alps and published numerous writings and landscape paintings on his hikes and local customs; Moreover, he worked together with the engineering geologist Albert Heim with the landslide of Elm and to this end published a brochure.

Ernst Buss was married to Marie Friederike Christiane (née Müller) since 1870.

Memberships

  • In Glarus, Ernst Buss founded an association for the dissemination of religious images.
  • He was vice president of the Swiss Alpine Club .
Lischana glacier as seen from Maiensäss Prui above Ftan in 1922 . To the left of the Piz Lischana glacier , to the right of it Piz San Jon . Ernst Buss 1922.

drawings

  • Panorama from the Wildhorn . 1875.
  • Glacier de la Plaine morte, from the Rohrbachstein . 1881.
  • Panorama delle Alpi di Mesocco: al di sopra di San Bernardino . 1902.
  • Panorama of the Misox Alps: location above the village of St. Bernardine . 1903.
  • Panorama from the Camoghè . 1905.
  • Panorama of the Lower Engadine Alps . 1907.
  • The southeastern Valais Alps drawn from the Riederalp . 1912.
  • The Aletsch Glacier, from Riederalp . 1913.
  • The Trieste Glacier, from Riederalp . 1913.
  • Panorama from Schlüchtli ob Tenna-Safien, Graubünden . 1913.
  • The south-eastern Valais Alps . 1913.

Fonts (selection)

  • Eduard Osenbrüggen ; Ernst Buss: Hiking Studies from Switzerland . Schaffhausen: Fr. Hurter'sche Buchhandlung, 1867–1881.
  • The education of the people in the canton of Bern . Bern: Huber & Cie, 1873.
  • Christian mission, its justification in principle and practical implementation . Leiden 1876.
  • The Christian Mission, Eligibility, and Implementation . Leyde, 1876.
  • Albert Treichler; Ernst Buss: Lenk baths and health resort in the Bernese Oberland . Bern: Rieder & Simmen, 1877.
  • Mountain life in religious lighting: In memory of the Lenk . Bern 1878.
  • The Elm landslide on September 11, 1881 . Zurich 1881.
  • The mission then and now . Frankfurt am Main, Diesterweg 1883.
  • Glarnerland and Walensee: with 57 illustrations by J. Weber and 2 maps . Zurich: Orell Füssli, 1885.
  • The first 25 years of the Swiss Alpine Club . Glarus 1889.
  • The voluntary poor association of Glarus in the first 25 years of its existence . Glarus, 1897.
  • The current position of field preachers in the Swiss armed forces: from the opening address at the 3rd field preacher's meeting in Olten on June 20, 1898 . Bern: Stämpfli, 1899.
  • Guide to Glarnerland and Walensee . Glarus: Glarner Nachrichten, 1900.
  • The religious and secular festive customs in the canton of Glarus . Zurich: Cotti Dr, 1900.
  • The town church of Glarus . Schwanden: Schwanden printing works, 1905.
  • Personal experiences in the field of superstition . Basel: G. Krebs, 1916.
  • The Tschudi grave plaque from 1566 in the Glarus cemetery . Glarus: Buchdruckerei Glarner Nachrichten, 1916.
  • The Elmer Foundation in Glarus . Glarus Buchdruckerei Glarner Nachrichten 1918.
  • Julie Weidenmann; Ernst Buss: Soul, my string playing: poems . Zurich; Leipzig: Rotapfel-Verlag, 1928.

literature

Ernst Buss . In: Heinz Balmer : On the history of the Buss family: since 1807 citizens of Kirchberg (Canton of Bern) . Der Schweizer Familienforscher, Vol. 3–5, 1965.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernese families - persons. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
  2. ^ Jürgen Court: Ways and Worlds of Religions: Research and Mediation; Festschrift for Udo Tworuschka . S. 177. Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2009, ISBN 978-3-87476-591-6 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Ernst Friedrich LANGHANS: pietism and Christianity in the mirror of the external mission. Thl. 1 . 1864 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2019]).
  4. ^ Eckhard Lessing: History of German-speaking Protestant theology from Albrecht Ritschl to the present . P. 454. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000, ISBN 978-3-525-56196-6 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2019]).
  5. ^ Henning Wrogemann: Intercultural theology and hermeneutics: basic questions, current examples, theoretical perspectives . Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2012, ISBN 978-3-641-08462-2 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Paul Schneiss and Lutz Drescher: Your time ahead. In: Mission History: East Asia. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Christiane Weber: Duchess Anna Amalia Library restores Luther Bible from Japan. May 19, 2017, accessed on November 6, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Chun-Shik Kim: German cultural imperialism in China: German colonial schools in Kiautschou (China) 1898-1914 . S. 117. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-515-08570-0 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Schamoni: The first Japanese Lessing monograph: Akashi Shigetarôs Resshingu (1893). 2003, accessed November 6, 2019 .
  10. ^ Jürgen Court: Ways and Worlds of Religions: Research and Mediation; Festschrift for Udo Tworuschka . S. 177. Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2009, ISBN 978-3-87476-591-6 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2019]).
  11. ^ The first 25 years of the Swiss Alpine Club. Memorandum, written on behalf of the Central Committee by Dr. Ernst Buss, pastor in Glarus and Vice President of the SAC, Glarus. 1889, Retrieved November 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Buss, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Penance, serious
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Tennis
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1928
Place of death Glarus