Friedrich Adolf Strauss

Friedrich Adolph Strauss

Friedrich Adolf Strauss (born June 1, 1817 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † April 16, 1888 in Potsdam ) was a German Protestant theologian, pastor from the revival movement and founder of the Jerusalem Association .

Life

Strauss was the son of the revival and later court preacher Gerhard Friedrich Abraham Strauss (1786–1863). After studying in Berlin, he was in the Berlin Cathedral to curate ordained.

He visited the Near East and especially Palestine from autumn 1844 to spring 1846 and then reported about it in his book Sinai and Golgotha , published in 1847 . The book was one of the most popular Palestine travel books of its time and was published eleven times by 1882 alone. He was then first division pastor and then garrison preacher of the 2nd Guards Division. In addition to his work as a military chaplain, he became a private lecturer at the Berlin Friedrich Wilhelms University . From 1859 he was an associate professor there. From 1870 he worked as court preacher in Potsdam. In 1872 he became superintendent. In 1852 he was a member of the founding committee of the Jerusalem Association, of which he was director in Potsdam until his death on April 16, 1888.

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Friedrich Adolf Strauss: Sinai and Golgotha. Journey to the Orient . Berlin 1847
Friedrich Adolf Strauss; Otto Strauss: The countries and places of the Holy Scriptures: In selected pictures with explanatory texts; with a hundred pictures and cards. Cotta, 1861

Sinai and Golgotha

His main work Sinai and Golgotha. Journey to the Orient. (1847) is a travel report from Greece through Syria and Lebanon, Palestine with the climax Jerusalem to Egypt and the upper Nile as well as on the way back to Constantinople and Rome in a contemporary expressive romantic style with landscape descriptions, observations of nature and remarks about customs and traditions. Religious observations were primarily used to trace the locations of biblical history and tried to avoid hasty and one-sided judgments.

Web links

Literature by and about Friedrich Adolf Strauss in the catalog of the German National Library
Friedrich Adolf Strauss (English)
Jerusalem Association

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ulrich Van der Heyden; Heike Liebau: Mission history, church history, world history: Christian missions in the context of national developments in Africa, Asia and Oceania (Volume 1 of Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv). Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3515067329 , page 93.
↑ ^a ^b Ulrich Van Der Heyden; Heike Liebau: Mission history, church history, world history: Christian missions in the context of national developments in Africa, Asia and Oceania (Volume 1 of Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv). Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3515067329 , page 92.

personal data
SURNAME	Strauss, Friedrich Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Strauss, Friedrich A .; Strauss, Friedrich; Strauss, Friedrich; Strauss, Friedrich Adolph; Strauss, Fridericus Adolphus; Strauss, Friedrich Adolph; Strauss, Friedrich Adolf; Strauss, Friedrich Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH	April 16, 1888
Place of death	Potsdam

[Missionsgeschichte_S.93-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ulrich Van der Heyden; Heike Liebau: Mission history, church history, world history: Christian missions in the context of national developments in Africa, Asia and Oceania (Volume 1 of Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv). Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3515067329 , page 93.

[Missionsgeschichte_S.92-2] Ulrich Van Der Heyden; Heike Liebau: Mission history, church history, world history: Christian missions in the context of national developments in Africa, Asia and Oceania (Volume 1 of Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv). Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3515067329 , page 92.