Georg Buchwald

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Georg Buchwald as pastor in St. Michaelis, Leipzig 1908

Georg Apollo Buchwald (born July 16, 1859 in Großenhain , Kingdom of Saxony , † February 18, 1947 in Rochlitz ) was a German Protestant theologian in Saxony .

Life

Georg Buchwald was the son of the cloth manufacturer and councilor Gottlob Reinhard Buchwald and his wife Amalia Auguste Uhle. He was thus a brother of the literary historian Reinhard Buchwald . From April 22, 1873 he attended the Princely School in Meissen and in 1875 the Royal High School in Dresden-Neustadt. After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . In 1882 he became a senior teacher at the secondary school in Mittweida and in 1883 a teacher at the royal high school in Zwickau . In Zwickau he received the position of 5th deacon in 1885, rose to 4th deacon in 1888 and became 3rd deacon at the Matthäikirche in Leipzig in 1892 . From 1896 he was pastor at the Michaeliskirche . From 1914 he was superintendent of the Rochlitz parishes of St. Petri and St. Kunigunde . In 1923 he retired.

Buchwald is considered an excellent expert on the work of Martin Luther . He edited numerous source publications, made significant contributions to the Weimar Edition and wrote a widely read, repeatedly published biography of Luther. His estate is in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin .

family

Buchwald married Margereth, the daughter of Gustav Adolf Fricke , on December 27, 1883 . The following children were born out of the marriage:

  1. Martin Buchwald (born September 28, 1884 in Zwickau), National Socialist judge
  2. Käte Buchwald (born April 30, 1886 in Zwickau) married. with the pastor in Schlagwitz Paul Alfred Jänke (born October 16, 1883 in Meißen)
  3. Johannes Buchwald (born December 14, 1887 in Zwickau; † 1918 (killed in World War I))
  4. Gottfried Oskar Detlef Buchwald (born April 14, 1889 in Zwickau), Gym. Albert Leipzig, 1914 vicar in Pilsen / Bohemia, 1917 deacon Glauchau, 1926 Rev. St. Philippi Leipzig-Lindenau

Works (selection)

Title page and back of the popular edition of Luther's anti-Jewish treatise Vom Schem Hamphoras and the family of Christ published by Georg Buchwald in 1931 . The subtitle has been added on the inside: communicated in the excerpt by Georg Buchwald .
  • Wittenberg Ordained Book. 1537-1560. Verlag Georg Wigand, Leipzig, 1894/95, 2nd vol.
  • History of the Evangelical Church in Kitzingen : Told from the documents . Leipzig B. Richter 1898.
  • Reformation history of the city of Leipzig . Leipzig B. Richter 1900.
  • Konrad Stürtzel von Buchheim from Kitzingen, Doctor of Canon Law, Chancellor Emperor Maximilian I, inheritance from the Landgraviate of Alsace - A description of his life and work according to archival sources. Leipzig B. Richter 1900. New edition Kitzingen Högner 2011.
  • Doctor Martin Luther. A picture of life for the German house. With numerous illustrations in the text as well as the portrait of Luther in heliogravure after a painting by L. [ucas] Cranach in Nuremberg, Leipzig and Berlin: BG Teubner , 1902 (XII, 530 pages).
    • Second increased and improved edition with numerous illustrations in the text and on 16 plates, Leipzig & Berlin: Teubner, 1914.
    • Third, completely revised edition with numerous illustrations in the text and on 16 plates based on works of art of the time, Leipzig: Teubner, 1917.
    • Essentially unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition, Leipzig & Berlin: BG Teubner, 1924.

literature

  • Franz Lau :  Buchwald, Georg Apollo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 710 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Günter O. Neuhaus: Georg Apollo Buchwald, pastor and Luther philologist - 150th birthday . Middle German Yearbook for Culture and History, Vol. 16 (2009), pp. 232–234.
  • Reinhold Grünberg: Saxon pastors book. Ernst Mauckisch, Freiberg, 1940, pp. 92 & 396
  • Hermann AL Degener: Who is it? Verlag Degener, Leipzig, 1922, 8th edition, p. 203

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personal data
SURNAME Buchwald, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buchwald, Georg Apollo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian in Saxony
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Grossenhain , Kingdom of Saxony
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1947
Place of death Rochlitz