Ernst Katzer

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Traugott Ernst Katzer (born May 19, 1839 in Lauenstein ; † October 20, 1921 in Oberlößnitz ) was a German pastor , Saxon church councilor and publicist .

Live and act

Katzer was one of four children of the court director in Lauenstein, Johann Traugott Katzer (1801 / 02-1849), who was a member of the 2nd Chamber of the Extraordinary State Parliament in 1848 .

He attended grammar school in Bautzen from 1854 to 1859 , then he studied theology in Leipzig until 1863 , where he was particularly influenced by the logician and philosopher Drobisch . There he also became a member of the Lausitzer Preacher Society .

He began his professional career as a teacher at the Marquardt private institute in Dresden, then moved to Pirna in 1865 as a hospital preacher , which was linked to the position of castle preacher in Zehista . In 1869 he became a deacon at the Pirnaer Marienkirche and in 1874 archdeacon and pastor in the sanatorium Sonnenstein . In 1877 he received his doctorate in Leipzig.

From 1886 to 1909 Katzer was Primarius of the Nikolaikirche in Löbau . During this time he and others founded the Upper Lusatian Branch Association of the Evangelical Federation in 1887 , the first branch association within Saxony. Between 1889 and 1921 he was a member of the board of the Saxon state association, from 1914 as an honorary member, and from 1890 to 1909 he was the chairman of the Löbauer local group. In 1887 he also took over the management of the Löbauer branch of the Gustav Adolf Foundation , which he held until 1909.

From 1894 Katzer was a member of the authors' tribe of the New Saxon Church Gazette . With The Evangelical-Lutheran Church System of the Saxon Upper Lusatia , in 1896, he succeeded in creating the first overall representation of the ecclesiastical constitutional structure in Upper Lusatia.

From 1901 until his retirement in 1909 he was a member of the Saxon regional synod . In 1908 the University of Leipzig honored him with the appointment of Dr. theol. hc; In 1909 he was appointed to the church council , then Katzer retired in Oberlößnitz .

He then devoted himself to journalism “the tension between church and school until he found a new topic in the intellectual historical interpretation of the First World War.” From 1913 to 1920 he also worked for the magazine Deutsch-Evangelisch .

reception

“Thanks to his high level of expertise and broad journalistic impact, K. [d. i. Katzer] should be seen as one of the most important and independent mediators of Neo-Kantianism for Saxon theological liberalism during the transition from the 19th to the 20th century . "

- Thomas Markert

Fonts

  • The moral proof of God according to Kant and Herbart. Diss. Leipzig 1877.
  • Kant's teaching about the church. in: Yearbooks for Protestant Theology 12/1886, pp. 29–85, 15/1889, pp. 195–225, 396–429, 553–577, 16/1890, pp. 263–297.
  • The Evangelical-Lutheran church system of the Saxon Upper Lusatia. Wigand, Leipzig 1896.
  • Kant's importance for Protestantism. Leipzig 1897.
  • “Salus ecclesiae suprema lex!”. Contributions to the reform of the Evangelical-Lutheran church system in the Saxon Upper Lusatia. Dieterich, Leipzig 1899.
  • What are the ecclesiastical rights of the four-city council colleges in Upper Lusatia? Neugersdorf around 1900 ( online ).
  • How long is the special ecclesiastical position of Lusatia supposed to prevent the uniform constitution of the Evangelical-Lutheran regional church of Saxony? In: New Saxon Church Gazette. Vol. 13, Leipzig 1906, pp. 161-168.
  • Luther and Kant. A contribution to the internal development history of German Protestantism. Giessen 1910.
  • Basic lines for a reform of religious education according to Protestant principles. Dresden 1912.
  • Kant's principles of biblical interpretation. In: Kant studies. Volume 18, Issue 1-3, Jan 1913, pp. 99-128.
  • The importance of the world war for the development of the German national character! Sturm, Dresden-A. 1915.
  • Pure Christianity. The religion of the future as the religious-historical result of the world war. A. Töpelmann, Giessen 1925.

Awards

Katzer received the following awards:

  • Honorary Citizenship of the City of Löbau (June 27, 1909)
  • Order of Albrecht (Knight's Cross 1st Class)
  • War Merit Cross (after 1915)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Markert: Traugott Ernst Katzer . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  2. ^ Address book Dresden with suburbs, VI. Part Oberlößnitz, 1915, p. 395, p. 398 (owner Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 19, i. Emil-Högg-Strasse 19).
  3. ^ Address book Dresden with suburbs, VI. Part Oberlößnitz, 1919, p. 242 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Katzer, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Katzer, Traugott Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, Saxon church councilor and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauenstein
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1921
Place of death Oberloessnitz