Friedrich Selle

Friedrich Selle (born June 11, 1860 in Promoisel on Rügen ; † April 27, 1931 in Bad Ischl ) was a Protestant pastor . He first worked in Upper Lusatia as a pastor of a bilingual community and founded the church newspaper Pomhaj Bóh for the evangelical Sorbs . In 1895 he went to Austria, where he worked in various diaspora communities. Interested in botany and natural philosophy , he founded the Alpine Garden in Aussee in 1913 .

Life

Friedrich Selle attended grammar school in Beuthen in Upper Silesia and then studied Protestant theology in Breslau . He was ordained in 1885 and received a vicariate in Kreba (Upper Lusatia). The following year he became pastor and district school inspector there. He took care of the repair of the Kreba parish church, which also received its stained glass windows during his time in office. At the same time, Selle devoted himself to philosophical studies. In 1889 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1891 he founded the Sorbian Protestant church newspaper Pomhaj Bóh , which is still published in Bautzen today . In his capacity as district school inspector, Selle founded the school in Mücka in 1892 .

After ten years in Upper Lusatia, he moved to Meran in Tyrol as a pastor . Until the end of his life he worked as a clergyman for the small Protestant church in the Austrian Alpine countries. In Meran he expanded the Protestant school, laid out his own cemetery, built a small church and a rectory, and founded a deaconess house. 1902–05 he was pastor in Steyr , after which he worked for the first time pastorally in Aussee and from 1907 was pastor in Bad Ischl. In 1909 he moved to Graz as a pastor , but returned to Aussee two years later. He also had a Protestant church built in Aussee; the Jesus Church was consecrated in 1908. In 1911 Selle received her doctorate in theology from the University of Vienna . From 1912 he was pastor of Gröbming with his official seat in Bad Aussee, from 1922 pastor of the newly founded parish of Bad Aussee. In his various places of activity in Austria, he made decisive contributions to building up the Protestant diaspora communities.

In addition, Selle was considered an excellent botanist. In 1913 he founded the Bad Aussee Alpine Garden with the help of the Alpine Plants Garden Association he founded. At first he looked after this himself together with unskilled workers. From 1917 he employed disabled disabled people for this purpose. From 1929 on, he lived in Bad Ischl as a retiree. After his death there, Friedrich Selle was buried in Bad Aussee.

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Despite his frequent changes of place and office as pastor, Selle did a variety of scientific work. In his writings he dealt with practical theology, canon law, church history and natural philosophy in connection with Christianity. As the editor of the source edition “Book of Fate of the Evangelical Church in Austria” he was responsible for the scientific publication of the essential documents on the history of Protestantism in the Habsburg Alpine countries.

• Zyrkwiny Wodźeŕ. Krotka wucžba wo zyrkwinych pschißłuschnoscźach. (together with Jan Kschižan ) Bautzen 1892
• An Austrian evangelical parish. Steyr in Upper Austria. Steyr 1903
• A confession of the city of Steyr from 1597. (5 parts) In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Oesterreich Vol. 25 (1904) pp. 165-179. Vol. 26 (1905) pp. 27-41. Vol. 28 (1907) pp. 17-26. Vol. 30 (1909) pp. 21-28. Vol. 37 (1916) pp. 33-54.
• The church tax in the Austrian Protestant church. Leipzig 1905
• The importance of the Protestant school in Austria. Leipzig 1905
• Thanks from the University of Wittenberg to Steyr on May 8, 1613 for a foundation. In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Oesterreich Vol. 29 (1908) pp. 13-15.
• From the knowledge of nature to faith in Christ. 2nd edition Berlin 1917
• Of the reality behind war and history. Leipzig 1918
• Plant and worldview. Contributions to a botanical natural philosophy. Graz 1927
• Book of Fate of the Protestant Church in Austria. (as publisher) Berlin 1928
• Notebook for botanical observations in the alpine plant garden in Bad Aussee, Styria. 1929

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• Austrian Bibliographical Lexicon 1815–1950. Vol. 12, pp. 157f.
• Ausseerland regional magazine Da Woadsack
• Bad Aussee Alpine Garden