Friedrich Teutsch

Bishop Friedrich Teutsch

Friedrich Teutsch (born September 16, 1852 in Schäßburg , Transylvania , † February 11, 1933 in Sibiu ) was a bishop of the Transylvanian Saxons.

Life

Friedrich Teutsch attended the Bergschule Schäßburg , directed by his father Georg Daniel Teutsch , and the Sibiu Law Academy in 1869/70. He then studied Protestant theology and history at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Universität Leipzig and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . His teachers include Wilhelm Wattenbach and Heinrich von Treitschke . In Heidelberg he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . During his studies in 1872 he became a member of the Normannia Leipzig fraternity . First he worked as a teacher, then he took part in teacher training. From 1889 to 1896 he was director of the Hermannstadt teachers' college. He encouraged care work and diaspora care. In 1896 he became pastor in Großschänen . 1899 Bishop appointed him Friedrich Müller to the Episcopal Vicar . In 1903 he became parish priest in Sibiu . From 1906 to 1932 he was Bishop of the Evangelical Church AB in Transylvania . As Bishop of the Transylvanian Saxons he was a member of the Senate of Greater Romania . He was succeeded as bishop by Viktor Glondys .

Teutsch was also a church historian and wrote various works on the history of the Transylvanian Saxons. Teutsch ended the history of the Transylvanian Saxons begun by his father in 1926. His bibliography contains over 1,300 entries. In 1922 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . The culture and meeting center in Sibiu is named after Friedrich Teutsch. The cellist Götz Teutsch is a great-nephew of Friedrich Teutsch.

Publications

Teutsch lists 1300 publications . His great works include:

• History of the Transylvanian Saxons for the Saxon People , Vols. 2–4, 1907–1926.
• History of the Protestant Church in Transylvania , 1921–1922.
• The Transylvanian Saxons in the past and present .
• Georg Daniel Teutsch, story of his life

Honors

• Honorary doctorate from the University of Jena (1899)
• Honorary member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
• Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class with the Star (January 1918)
• Honorary member of the Romanian Academy (1919)

literature

• Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945 , Volume 2, 2nd edition. Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-5-0 , p. 583.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 19-21.
• Erich Wenneker :  Teutsch, Friedrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 728-733.
• Gerhard Schullerus, Wolfram G. Theilemann (ed.): Leaves of bygone days. Finds from the estate of Bishop Friedrich Teutsch. Schiller, Hermannstadt / Bonn 2008.

Web links

Wikisource: Friedrich Teutsch  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Friedrich Teutsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Teutsch, Friedrich (1852–1933), bishop and historian (ÖBL)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bishop in the present - historian for the future . www.siebenbuerger.de. February 14, 2008. Retrieved July 6, 2009.
2. ^ Members of the previous academies. Friedrich Teutsch. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on June 23, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Ecclesiastical papers from the Protestant regional church AB in the Transylvanian parts of Hungary, No. 7, Sibiu, February 16, 1918, vol. X pp. 58–59 (news from near and far)