Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen

Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen, 1902

Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen as a student in Göttingen in 1850

Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen (born April 24, 1831 in Misburg near Hanover , † August 31, 1903 in Breslau ) was a German administrative lawyer .

Life

Barkhausen studied mathematics and natural sciences in Göttingen and Heidelberg, and later also law and political science. He was a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . In 1869 he was appointed by the Prussian government as consistorial councilor and chairman of the consistory of the general diocese of Bremen-Verden in Stade . In 1873 he moved to Berlin in the Prussian Ministry of Culture , where he became director of the clerical department in 1881.

Barkhausen was a member of the Prussian manor house . In 1890 he became Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and in 1891 President of the Old Prussian Evangelical Church Council . In 1893 he took over the presidency of the Prussian Main Bible Society. From 1875 he was also curator of the Loccum monastery . As such, he campaigned for a new building for the Langeoog island church . In 1903 Barkhausen died on a business trip during the funeral of the Silesian general superintendent Hugo Nehmiz .

His daughter Theodore Barkhausen (1869–1959) became a deaconess of Kaiserswerth after his death and, from the First World War to the Israeli War of Independence after the Second World War, headed the Kaiserswerther Orient work through the Empress Auguste Victoria Foundation on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

Works

Welcome address at the meeting of the meeting of the Gustav Adolf Associations on September 29, 1897 in Berlin . Harrach, Kreuznach 1897
Ed .: The German imperial couple in the Holy Land in autumn 1898 . With the utmost authority of His Majesty the Emperor and King, edited according to authentic reports and files . Berlin 1899

Honors

In 1898 Barkhausen received the diamonds for the Prussian Royal Order of the Crown, 1st class. He was a privy councilor and excellence as well as an honorary doctorate from the theological faculties in Halle and Marburg.

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Barkhausen, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 371–372. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Heinrich F. Curschmann : Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809-1899. Göttingen 2002, p. 171, No. 522
Walter lamp: Barkhausen, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 590 ( digitized version ).
Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biography , Volume 1: Hannoversche men and women since 1866. Sponholtz, Hannover 1912, pp. 23-30.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Nicolaus Heutger: Lower Saxony religious houses and monasteries: history and present. Lectures and research , Viola Heutger (ed.), Berlin: Lukas-Verlag, 2009, (= research on the history of the order of Lower Saxony; Vol. 7), p. 24. ISBN 978-3-86732-038-2 .
↑ On his funeral and tribute to his person see: D. Dr. Barkhausen, died on August 31, 1903 ( digitized version ).
↑ Ruth Felgentreff: Messages from ecumenism and work abroad 2002: Diakonisse Theodore Barkhausen. In: ekd.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 9, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Barkhausen, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 24, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH	Misburg near Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	August 31, 1903
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Nicolaus Heutger: Lower Saxony religious houses and monasteries: history and present. Lectures and research , Viola Heutger (ed.), Berlin: Lukas-Verlag, 2009, (= research on the history of the order of Lower Saxony; Vol. 7), p. 24. ISBN 978-3-86732-038-2 .

[2] On his funeral and tribute to his person see: D. Dr. Barkhausen, died on August 31, 1903 ( digitized version ).

[3] Ruth Felgentreff: Messages from ecumenism and work abroad 2002: Diakonisse Theodore Barkhausen. In: ekd.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 9, 2020 .