Georg Eduard Steitz
Georg Eduard Steitz (born July 25, 1810 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 19, 1879 ibid) was a German Protestant theologian and historian.
life and work
Steitz was a great-nephew of the Frankfurt Mayor Georg Steitz . After attending the city high school , he studied philology and theology in Tübingen and Bonn from 1829 . During his studies he became a member of the Commentburschenschaft / Germania Tübingen in 1829 , of the Populonia Bonn fraternity in 1831 and of the Marcomannia Bonn fraternity in 1832 . In 1833 he returned to his hometown without exams and taught from 1834 to 1839 as a private teacher. In 1840 he passed the first and in 1842 the second theological state examination. Between the two exams there was a lengthy stay in Italy.
After graduating, he became pastor at the Dreikönigskirche in Sachsenhausen in December 1842 . From there he moved to the Paulskirche in 1843 and to the Alte Nikolaikirche in 1848 . After the annexation of the Free City of Frankfurt by the Kingdom of Prussia , he became consistorial councilor of the Frankfurt regional church in 1873 . From 1875 until his death he was a senior at the Evangelical Lutheran Ministry of Preachers .
In addition to his profession as a pastor and theologian, from 1847 Steitz appeared primarily as a historian and biographer. For many years he was a member of the board of the Frankfurt Association for History and Archeology , for whose archive he wrote numerous articles for Frankfurt's history and art . He wrote various treatises on the Frankfurt church history of the Reformation period , including biographies of Wilhelm Nesen , Gerhard Westerburg and Hartmann Beyer , as well as several articles for the real encyclopedia for Protestant theology and the church , including on the doctrine of the sacraments , Mary and the Jesuit order .
For the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie he wrote ten articles, mainly about Frankfurt theologians, including Hartmann Beyer and Johann Philipp Fresenius . Further biographical works were written about his great uncle Georg Steitz and Anton Kirchner , whom he had known personally.
In addition, Steitz was the publisher of historical works and documents, including the Frankfurt Chronicles by Bernhard Rohrbach and Job Rohrbach and the Frankfurt riot book about the revolt of the guilds and citizens in 1525.
At times he was a member of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge Carl to the rising light , where he held the post of "Second Overseer". The University of Heidelberg named him Dr. theol.
literature
- Hermann Dechent : Steitz, Georg Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 27-29.
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 .
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 508-509.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann : The politics of sociability. Masonic lodges in German civil society 1840–1918. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 2000, p. 102 (note 277).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steitz, Georg Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1810 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 1879 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |