Friedrich Ludwig Mallet

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Friedrich Ludwig Mallet
Memorial plaque for Mallet on the house where he was born

Friedrich Ludwig Mallet (born August 4, 1792 in Braunfels , † May 5, 1865 in Bremen ) was a Reformed pastor from Bremen . He was one of the major preachers of the 19th century revival movement .

Life

Mallet lost his father at an early age, who was the princely chamber secretary. He was accepted by the palace preacher Hermann Müller, who took him to Bremen in 1809 when he took up a position as a preacher at St. Stephen's Church in Bremen . Mallet attended the Alte Gymnasium Bremen . He completed his theology studies at the High School in Herborn and at the University of Tübingen . In Tübingen he joined the patriotic - pietistic student movement. He was initially friends with the radical fraternity member Karl Ludwig Sand , the later murderer of August von Kotzebue . Mallet took part in the wars of liberation in the Nassau Landwehr in 1813/14 with patriotic enthusiasm , which is why Ludwig Hofacker still called him in 1830 a "German youth in German rock". Strangely enough, Mallet's political convictions were very closely linked to impulses he had received from the Awakening movement at an early age .

In 1815 he preached at the Michaeliskirche in Bremen and in 1817 he was appointed pastor here. In 1827 he moved to St. Stephen's Church. He maintained close relationships with Johann Gerhard Oncken , the founder of the German Baptist congregations, and invited him to Bremen for preaching services in the 1820s. He also worked with Oncken on tract missions and Bible dissemination. The foundation of the Bremen Bible Society , initiated by Mallet, arose from this relationship. A Sunday school work planned together with Oncken failed due to resistance from the Bremen Senate.

In 1831 Mallet founded the youth and journeyman's association , and in 1834 the auxiliary association for young men , both of which are important germ cells of Protestant youth work. In 1836 he was a co-founder of the North German Mission , which had been based in Bremen since 1851. In 1856 he obtained a theological doctorate from the University of Halle .

In his sermons and writings Mallet turned against the liberal currents within theology. In the Bremen church dispute in 1844, for example, as head of the clergy's ministry in Bremen (full representation of the pastorate), he unsuccessfully tried to exclude the liberal pastor Wilhelm Nagel , which the Bremen Senate rejected with the declaration of 1845 and thus the freedom of the church in Bremen as an example for others Regions clearly confirmed.

He took care of the emotional and social needs of his contemporaries at the same time. The traveling journeyman craftsmen were of particular concern to him . His preaching was Christ-centered and characterized by ingenuity. With the Bremen pastors Gottfried Menken and Georg Treviranus , the conservative mallet in Bremen was considered to be “the triumvirate of great zealots for the faith”.

Fonts in selection

  • About the service of saints and images in the Roman Church in response to the reply from Pastor Provost. Kaiser, Bremen 1842 digitized
  • Passion and Ceremonial Sermons , 1859
  • Sermons and Speeches , 1867
  • New and Old , 1868

literature

  • Wilhelm Hermann Meurer: In memory of Friedrich Ludwig Mallet. A biographical description of the deceased from the letters and writings he left behind , Müller, Bremen 1866.

See also

personal data
SURNAME Mallet, Friedrich Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reformed pastor in Bremen, preachers of the revival movement
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunfels , Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1865
Place of death Bremen