Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno

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Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno (born May 19, 1838 in Germersheim , † December 22, 1905 in Eddigehausen ) was a Protestant pastor .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno came from Germersheim. His father was the clerk and later bailiff Johann Wilhelm Cuno. He attended schools in Zweibrücken , Speyer and Worms , and graduated from high school in 1858. According to his own statements, he then studied theology for eight semesters at the universities of Erlangen, Basel, Tübingen and Heidelberg and in the autumn of 1862 he took the ministerial examination with an included permission to preach Exit Speyer. After his ordination on November 9, 1862, he initially took on the position of assistant pastor in the French Reformed community of Bischweiler in Alsace for the rest of the year . He spent an equally short time as vicar in Oppau and in the 5th Reformed parish in Paris (Paroisse de Plaisance). His marriage to the Duisburg merchant's daughter Heda Esch, with whom he later had nine children, also took place during his time in Paris. After pastorships in Hirzenhain (Dillkreis) and Unterreichenbach, he moved to Hannoversche, where he initially worked as a pastor in Spanbeck and then in Eddigehausen until his death. In 1887 he had received an honorary theological doctorate from the University of Vienna . During his life he dealt with the history of German Calvinism , for which he traveled to numerous archives. He wrote several articles for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

Cuno was a member of the Wingolf student association in Heidelberg and Göttingen .

Works (selection)

  • History of the city of Siegen: clearly laid out, with special consideration of the Protestant church system there; based on printed and unprinted documents, Dillenburg 1872
  • Sheets in memory of Kaspar Olevianus, Barmen 1887 (Klein)
  • Franciscus Junius the Elder: Professor of Theology and Pastor (1545–1602); his life and work, his writings and letters, Amsterdam 1891 (Scheffer)
  • The Heidelberg Catechism explains with the words of proven teachers of the Reformed Church of old and modern times, Prague 1891–1897 (Otto)
  • Daniel Tossanus the Elder, Professor of Theology and Pastor, Amsterdam 1898 (Scheffer)
  • Memory book of German princes and princesses of the Reformed Confession, Barmen (Klein)

Then there are the articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

literature

  • Gerhard Menk: Between Pulpit and Chair, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Menk: The estate of the pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno . In: Plesse archive . tape 16 , 1980, pp. 289 .
  2. ^ Archives of the Protestant Church in the Rhineland
  3. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007. p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Cuno, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Germersheim
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1905
Place of death Eddigehausen