Franz Dibelius

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Franz Wilhelm Dibelius (born January 6, 1847 in Prenzlau , † January 20, 1924 in Dresden ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Grave of Franz Wilhelm Dibelius in the Old Annenfriedhof in Dresden

Franz Wilhelm Dibelius came from a Pomeranian pastor family as the son of the senior teacher Wilhelm Dibelius and his mother Franziska (née Wiese) . He went to a graduation to the doctor of philosophy at the University of Halle-Wittenberg to Berlin , where he developed the Licentiate of Protestant theology acquired and 1871. Domhilfsprediger and inspector of Domkandidatenstifts was.

In 1873 he completed his habilitation in church history at the University of Berlin , worked there briefly as a private lecturer and in 1874 went to the Annenkirche in Dresden as a pastor. In 1884 he became superintendent of the Ephorie Dresden I and pastor at the Kreuzkirche . In 1910 he was appointed senior court preacher and vice president of the state consistory, which he held until his death in 1924. In 1922 he was the last in the line of Saxon court preachers since 1539. He was succeeded as the first Saxon regional bishop Ludwig Ihmels . As a theologian, he tried to convey a happy Christianity. Dibelius introduced the children's church service in Dresden and contributed songs to it. He pushed through the division of oversized parishes in the growing city, which led to the establishment of new churches.

He was also a co-initiator of the “Society of Saxon Church History” and, among other things, headed the Gustav-Adolph-Verein from 1893 , of which he had been a member since 1895. He appeared as a promoter of the Protestant diaspora in Bohemia , promoted the Protestant movement in Austria and was considered one of the leading men of German Lutheranism before the First World War .

Dibelius was married three times. In his first marriage he was married to Martha († 1887), the daughter of the senior consistorial councilor in Dresden Ewald Hoffmann, in his second marriage from 1888 to Elsbeth († 1901), the daughter of Major General Bruno Julius Otto Köhler and in his third marriage from 1905 with Helene, daughter of the Prussian lieutenant colonel Gustav Eduard Theodor Papen. His only child, Martin Dibelius, is from his first marriage . His nephew Otto Dibelius took him as a model.

Works (selection)

The list of works is consistent with the article on Dibelius in the German biography . However, Dibelius had a poet nephew of the same name, the pastor and habilitated historian Franz Dibelius (1881–1916), to whom the work My Last Is Filed is variously ascribed.

  • The Children's Service , 1881
  • The introduction of the Reformation in Dresden , 1889
  • 10 years of the Protestant movement in Austria , 1909
  • From the Holy Cross , 1910
  • Thy Kingdom come, Sermons , 1912
  • My Burden is Gone, Poems and Thoughts , 1917
  • Happy Christianity, A Guide to the Evangelical Hymnbooks , 1921

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the Dibelius family see Hartmut Fritz: Otto Dibelius. A cleric in the time between monarchy and dictatorship . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, p. 17f.
  2. ↑ Otto Dibelius: A Christian is always on duty. Experiences and experiences at a turning point . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart, 1961, p. 9ff.
predecessor Office successor
Heinrich Ludwig Oskar Ackermann Court preacher in Dresden
1910–1922 		---
personal data
SURNAME Dibelius, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dibelius, Franz Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Prenzlau
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1924
Place of death Dresden