Friedrich Meinhof

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Friedrich Meinhof (born April 30, 1800 in Medewitzsch near Leipzig (now part of Neukieritzsch ); † May 2, 1881 in Barzwitz near Rügenwalde ) was a Lutheran pastor and revival preacher in Pomerania .

Life

Friedrich Meinhof was the son of pastor Balthasar Friedrich Gottlieb Meinhof (1761–1834) and his wife Johanna Wilhelmine, nee. Demuth (1764-1839).

From 1814 Meinhof attended the Princely School in Grimma and studied theology at the University of Leipzig from 1818 to 1821 . Between 1825 and 1827 he attended the seminary in Wittenberg and completed the second theological exam in Berlin in 1828 .

The village church of Barzwitz, where Meinhof was pastor for 39 years.

Friedrich Meinhof was ordained a pastor in Drosedow near Kolberg on September 1, 1828 , and held the parish office there until 1831. In January 1832 he became pastor in Gramenz . Here he initiated an aid association for the Berlin Mission , the fourth of its kind in Pomerania.

In 1842 he took over the pastoral position in Barzwitz near Rügenwalde, which he held until his death.

Friedrich Meinhof had been married to Sophie Meinhof, his uncle's daughter in Mörz , since 1828 . She died in 1845. In his second marriage, he married Auguste Strecker from Fritzow bei Cammin , who died in 1850.

In 1852 Meinhof married Clara Christiane Giesebrecht (1819-1893), the daughter of the philologist and national poet Karl Giesebrecht , professor at the Gray Monastery in Berlin . This marriage resulted in three children: Clara Henriette Maria Meinhof (1855–1944), Carl Meinhof (1857–1944, later professor of African languages) and Johannes Meinhof (1859–1947, the grandfather of Ulrike Meinhof ).

Theologically Meinhof was firmly committed to the Lutheran creed and campaigned for the Lutherans' right to exist within the Prussian Union .

literature

  • Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present . Part 2. Szczecin 1912.
  • Hermann Petrich : Pastor Meinhof. From the life of a missionary witness in the previous century, told to missionary friends in this century . Berlin undated (before 1912).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Meinhof: From Pomerania . In: H. Krause (Hrsg.): Protestant church newspaper for Protestant Germany . No. 14 . Berlin 1867, p. 347-348 .
personal data
SURNAME Meinhof, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pastor and revival preacher in Pomerania
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Medewitzsch near Leipzig (today part of Neukieritzsch )
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1881
Place of death Barzwitz near Rügenwalde