Friedrich Johannes Perthes

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Friedrich Johannes Perthes, portrait in the Friedenskirche Bienstädt

Friedrich Johannes Perthes (born December 12, 1841 in Hamburg-Moorburg ; † October 1, 1907 in Gotha ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and local researcher.

Life

Friedrich Johannes Perthes came from the Perthes publishing family. He was the only surviving son of the pastor Friedrich Matthias Perthes and his wife Mariane, nee. Plessing. Friedrich Christoph Perthes was his grandfather, Matthias Claudius his great-grandfather.

He attended the Ernestinum Gotha grammar school until graduation at Easter 1862 and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Bonn, Tübingen and Berlin. After his exams he worked as a private tutor in Mecklenburg , as was customary at the time . In 1867 he was ordained in Gotha. His first job was as a vicar in Molschleben . In 1869 he moved to Graefenhain (Ohrdruf) . In 1870 he became pastor at the Friedenskirche in Bienstädt and in 1890 in Hörselgau . He was retired on July 1, 1907 because of a "heart and throat ailment". He received the title of Councilor of Churches because of his services “in the hymn book question and in the source research of the Reformation history ” . He died just three months later in Gotha.

Perthes was an active member of the Society for Gotha History and Age Research and published several articles on church history.

He was married to Emma Henriette Julie Marie, born in 1883. Varnhagen (* 1859). The couple had two children who remained single, so that this line of the Perthes family died out.

literature

  • Obituary for CF von Strenge , Exz., And Church Councilor Friedrich Perthes. In: Communications of the Association for Gotha History and Age Research. Pp. 84-89
  • Thuringian Pastors' Book , ed. from the Society for Thuringian Church History. Volume 1: Duchy of Gotha, Neustadt an der Aisch: Degener 1995, p. 521

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thuringian Church Yearbook. 12 (1907), p. 109
  2. ^ Archives for kin research and all related areas 1973, p. 544
personal data
SURNAME Perthes, Friedrich Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Moorburg
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1907
Place of death Gotha