Friedrich Ihme

Friedrich August Ihme (also Frédéric Auguste Ihme; born October 4, 1834 in Strasbourg ; † November 27, 1915 in Baerenthal ) was an Alsatian Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

Friedrich Ihme was the son of a furrier of the same name and his wife Frédérique Braun. He attended high school in Strasbourg, where he then studied Protestant theology at the Protestant seminary from 1851 to 1857. In 1857 he was one of the founders of the Argentina Strasbourg Wingolf Association . He completed his studies with the work Essai sur les doctrines et le culte des Irvingiens , which was published in Strasbourg in 1858.

In the conflict between denominational Lutherans and liberal or unionist currents, Ihme uncompromisingly represented the confessional-Lutheran position. After a short time as a French teacher in Poznan , he was appointed vicar in Barr in 1859 . However, because he wanted an ordination in the old Lutheran rite, which the church inspector Johann Friedrich Bruch refused, he was released again. Thereupon Pastor Wilhelm Horning brought him to Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant (Jung-St-Peter Protestant) in Strasbourg. The ordination took place in the same year.

Ihme was appointed pastor in Niedersteinbach . After he had selected a children's Bible with the Luther catechism edited by Horning and Magnus, he was dismissed from his functions. Eventually he became a pastor in the small working-class community of Mouterhouse . From 1868 to 1919 he was pastor in Baerenthal for 42 years .

In 1875 he married Claire Guericke, daughter of the old Lutheran professor for church history in Halle, Ferdinand Guericke .

He was President of the Lutheran Society until his death in 1915. In 1871 he founded the weekly paper Evangelical Lutheran Messengers of Peace from Alsace-Lorraine and wrote biographies of Lutherans and monographs of Lutheran congregations. He was also the editor of a hymn book entitled Alleluia . He wrote melodies for hymns , some of which can still be found in regional sections of the Evangelical Hymnal .

literature

Bernhard Vogler: Frédéric Auguste Ihme. In: Jean-Marie Mayeur, Yves-Marie Hilaire, Bernhard Vogler (eds.): L'Alsace (= Dictionnaire du Monde Religieux dans la France Contemporaine. Vol. 2). Beauchesne, Paris 1999, p. 220

Web links

Publications by Friedrich August Ihme at books.google.de

Individual evidence

↑ Festschrift, 50 Years of Argentina Strasbourg, Strasbourg 1907
↑ Frédéric Hartweg: Protestantism in Alsace-Lorraine (1860-1945) . In: The Protestant intellectual milieu in Germany, its press and networks (1871–1963) , Bern 2008, p. 86
↑ cf. Martin Siegwalt Carl Maurer, A life for church and home, Neudettelsau 2014, 145
↑ Wolfgang Fischer (Ed.): Songs from other countries and languages (= workbook for the Evangelical Hymn book. Delivery 6). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, p. 18 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Ihme, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ihme, Friedrich August (full name); Me, Frédéric Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian in Alsace
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH	November 27, 1915
Place of death	Baerenthal

[1] Festschrift, 50 Years of Argentina Strasbourg, Strasbourg 1907

[2] Frédéric Hartweg: Protestantism in Alsace-Lorraine (1860-1945) . In: The Protestant intellectual milieu in Germany, its press and networks (1871–1963) , Bern 2008, p. 86

[3] . Martin Siegwalt Carl Maurer, A life for church and home, Neudettelsau 2014, 145

[4] Wolfgang Fischer (Ed.): Songs from other countries and languages (= workbook for the Evangelical Hymn book. Delivery 6). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, p. 18 f.