Friedrich Braun (theologian)

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Friedrich Braun (born November 18, 1850 in Kirchheim unter Teck , † May 31, 1904 in Jerusalem ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Friedrich Braun was the 6th of 8 children of the senior preceptor Johann Friedrich Braun and his wife Elise Thusnelda Friederika, geb. Stumpp from Kirchheim unter Teck. After attending a grammar school in Stuttgart , he studied Protestant theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and then worked for a short time as a vicar in Leonberg . He then went on a study trip to Berlin and England . He later took on other vicariates in Ravensburg and Stuttgart. He was employed as a repetitionist at the Tübingen Abbey in 1876 and three years later he took over a pastor's position in Eßlingen am Neckar . From the following year he held the office of court chaplain in Stuttgart. In 1887 he became court preacher and finally in 1896 consistorial councilor . In the following year he became city ​​dean and first pastor of the Stuttgart Hospital Church .

Braun headed the Württemberg main association of the Gustav Adolf Foundation from 1890 and the South German Youth Association from 1894 . In addition, he had belonged to the committee of the Württemberg Bible Institute and the Württemberg Central Committee for released prisoners and was second chairman of the association for combating emergencies in the countryside .

In September 1894, Braun founded a local committee of the Jerusalem Association in Stuttgart , which focused particularly on supporting the Protestant community of Jaffa. A majority of its members were Wuerttemberg and their descendants, who, after emerging from the Wuerttemberg church Templar become and the Holy Land were drawn. In Jaffa , however, they had now returned, if not to the Lutheran Württemberg, then at least to the United Evangelical Church of the older provinces of Prussia .

Under Braun's leadership, the Stuttgart local committee and the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Württemberg approved the salary for a Protestant pastor for the Jaffa congregation. As financiers, they wanted a Württemberg pastor and found Albert Eugen Schlaich from Korntal . Schlaich was a trained theologian and elementary school teacher.

In 1898 Braun went with Emperor Wilhelm II's Palestine trip to Jerusalem for the inauguration of the German Protestant Church of the Redeemer there on Reformation Day (October 31). On November 2nd, Braun attended the laying of the foundation stone for the Evangelical Church in Jaffa and gave the ceremonial address. On the occasion he donated 10,000 marks (ℳ) himself for the construction.

Back in Stuttgart, Braun started a fundraising campaign for the building a. a. supported by Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna Romanova , niece and adopted daughter of the late King of Württemberg pair Olga and Charles I . The Braun couple alone donated another ℳ 25,000.

Braun's grave in the Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem

The inauguration of the finished Immanuel Church was planned for Whitsun 1904 (May 22), for which Braun, the largest single donor, came from Stuttgart on behalf of the Jerusalem Association. Unfortunately, upon his arrival in the Holy Land, he fell ill with dysentery and died in hospital in Jerusalem on May 31, 1904. He was buried in the Anglo-Prussian Anglican Protestant Zion Cemetery on Mount Zion , near the grave of Bishop Samuel Gobat .

After the tragic death of Braun, the inauguration of the Immanuel Church was postponed to Monday, June 6th and was held sober on the whole. On June 6 of the following year, Theodor Schneller celebrated a memorial service for Braun in the Immanuelkirche and a memorial plaque dedicated to him was attached to the outer wall.

family

Friedrich Braun had been with Bertha Auguste Dorothea, born May 20, 1880. Neeff (born August 4, 1853) married in Stuttgart.

Works

  • Luther in a German Song (1883)
  • Faith struggles and peace works (1885)
  • Who is free (1886)
  • Wichern and Werner (1888)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Württemberg, Germany, family register 1550–1985, Lehi, UT, USA In: Ancestry.com
  2. ^ Frank Foerster: Mission in the Holy Land: The Jerusalem Association in Berlin 1852-1945 . In: Missionswissenschaftliche Forschungen [NS] Volume 25 . Gütersloher Verlags-Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1991, ISBN 3-579-00245-7 , p. 92 (at the same time: Marburg an der Lahn, Univ., Master's thesis, 1987/88, and Berlin, Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (West Berlin), scientific researcher for the first theological examination, 1988/89).
  3. ^ Frank Foerster: Mission in the Holy Land: The Jerusalem Association in Berlin 1852-1945 . In: Missionswissenschaftliche Forschungen [NS] Volume 25 . Gütersloher Verlags-Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1991, ISBN 3-579-00245-7 , p. 81; 118 (at the same time: Marburg an der Lahn, Univ., Master's thesis, 1987/88, and Berlin, Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (West Berlin), scientific housework for the first theological examination, 1988/89).
  4. ↑ Ejal Jakob Eisler (איל יעקב איזלר), The German Contribution to the Rise of Jaffa 1850-1914: On the History of Palestine in the 19th Century , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997, (Treatises of the German Palestine Association; Vol. 22), pp. 129seq. ISBN 3-447-03928-0 .
  5. ^ Frank Foerster: Mission in the Holy Land: The Jerusalem Association in Berlin 1852-1945 . In: Missionswissenschaftliche Forschungen [NS] Volume 25 . Gütersloher Verlags-Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1991, ISBN 3-579-00245-7 , p. 108 (at the same time: Marburg an der Lahn, Univ., Master's thesis, 1987/88, and Berlin, Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (West Berlin), scientific housework for the first theological examination, 1988/89).
  6. ↑ Ejal Jakob Eisler (איל יעקב איזלר), The German Contribution to the Rise of Jaffa 1850-1914: On the History of Palestine in the 19th Century , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997, (Treatises of the German Palestine Association; Vol. 22), p. 131. ISBN 3-447-03928-0 .
  7. ↑ cf. Ejal Jakob Eisler (איל יעקב איזלר), The German Contribution to the Rise of Jaffa 1850-1914: On the History of Palestine in the 19th Century , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997, (Treatises of the German Palestine Association; Vol. 22), p. 133 ( ISBN 3-447-03928-0 )
  8. ^ Frank Foerster: Mission in the Holy Land: The Jerusalem Association in Berlin 1852-1945 . In: Missionswissenschaftliche Forschungen [NS] Volume 25 . Gütersloher Verlags-Haus Mohn, Gütersloh 1991, ISBN 3-579-00245-7 , p. 118 (at the same time: Marburg an der Lahn, Univ., Master's thesis, 1987/88, and Berlin, Protestant Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (West Berlin), scientific housework for the first theological examination, 1988/89).
  9. ↑ Ejal Jakob Eisler (איל יעקב איזלר), The German Contribution to the Rise of Jaffa 1850-1914: On the History of Palestine in the 19th Century , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997, (Treatises of the German Palestine Association; Vol. 22), p. 135. ISBN 3-447-03928-0 .
  10. ↑ a b Ejal Jakob Eisler (איל יעקב איזלר), The German Contribution to the Rise of Jaffa 1850-1914: On the History of Palestine in the 19th Century , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1997, (Treatises of the German Palestine Association; Vol. 22), p . 136. ISBN 3-447-03928-0 .
  11. ↑ Lutheran Church Books, 1500–1985, Evangelical Church, Hof- (Schloß-) Kirche Stuttgart, In: Ancestry.com
personal data
SURNAME Braun, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchheim unter Teck
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1904
Place of death Jerusalem