Georg Karl Hirsche

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Georg Karl Hirsche (born April 19, 1816 in Braunschweig , † July 23, 1892 in Hamburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and educator.

Life

The son of a baker obtained his preparatory education at the grammar schools in his hometown so that he could begin studying theology at the University of Göttingen in 1833 . In the summer of 1836 he moved to the University of Berlin , completed on November 4, 1836 the first exam and on August 7, 1840 in Wolfenbüttel the principal theological exam . Hirsche, meanwhile a teacher at a boys' boarding school in Montauban , passed the higher education exams on November 5, 1840, and from October 1841 worked as a teacher at the community school in Holzminden . On October 13, 1846, he was elected to the pastor's office at St. Catherine's Church in Osnabrück , which he could not take up until the summer of 1848 because the royal confirmation had not been received for so long.

In 1855 he returned to Wolfenbüttel, where he became director of the school teachers' seminar , where he gained high recognition. On January 31, 1858, he was appointed clergyman at the ducal consistory . On February 15, 1863, Hirsche was elected chief pastor at the St. Nikolaikirche in Hamburg ; he took up this office in July 1863. In 1871 he became a member of the Hamburg high school authorities and on October 8, 1879 he was elected Senior of the Ministry of Spirituality in Hamburg. This made him the highest Protestant representative of the free Hanseatic city. In 1872 he was accepted into the Hamburg Freemason Lodge Emanuel , in 1881 the University of Gießen appointed him an honorary doctorate in theology.

Hirsche had especially distinguished himself with his work on Thomas von Kempen , where he had suffered an eye disease and became almost completely blind. That is why he resigned all his offices on January 1, 1892 and died of a heart attack that same year. After Hirsche had published his work in the two volumes of the Prolegomena on a new edition of the Imitatio Christi based on the autograph by Thomas von Kempen, a third volume ready for printing by Carl Bertheau was published in 1894.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Karl Hebel-Verlag, Berlin, 1st volume 1873, 2nd volume 1874, 2nd edition 1890
predecessor Office successor
Caesar Wilhelm Alexander Krause Senior pastor at St. Nikolai in Hamburg
1863 - 1892 		Eduard Rudolf Grimm
personal data
SURNAME Deer, Georg Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1892
Place of death Hamburg