Ernst Diestel

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Ernst Gottlieb Gustav Diestel (born March 3, 1859 in Hamburg , † October 31, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German pastor and writer .

Life

Diestel was born the son of the merchant and consul in Valparaíso Georg Ludwig Friedrich Diestel (1817–1907) and his wife Marie Sophie Stresow (1828–1916). His brother was Arnold Diestel , Mayor of Hamburg. From the summer semester of 1880 he studied theology in Tübingen , where he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia in 1880 . Diestel worked for many years as a pastor in Berlin-Grunewald and as a prison pastor in Berlin .

Diestel wrote the song Alma mater tubingensis in the summer semester of 1881 as the federal song of Derendingia. The song found its way into the General German Kommersbuch , enjoyed great popularity with the other Tübingen corporations and became the most famous Tübingen student song and the popular hymn to the university city of Tübingen.

Publications (selection)

  • Buddhism and Christianity. Braunschweig 1895.
  • Justice, grace and reincarnation. Braunschweig 1896.
  • The art of living, a royal art, reflected in world literature. A book for serious people. 2nd edition, Berlin 1920.
  • The devil as a symbol of evil in church faith, in the witch trials and as an ally of the Freemasons. Berlin 1921.
  • Experiences from a quarter of a century in the remand prison in Berlin. Berlin 1926.
  • From belief in children to belief in men. Berlin 1926.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 137-138.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Diestel in an essay on the history of the church in Hamburg, p. 114. [1]
  2. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen.  1967, master roll no. 60.
  3. ^ Herbert Raisch and Rainer Obermüller:  Derendingerhaus 1905–2005.  Tübingen 2005, pp. 19-21.
personal data
SURNAME Diestel, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Diestel, Ernst Gottlieb Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1936
Place of death Berlin