Georg Rietschel

Georg Rietschel (1842–1914)

Georg Christian Rietschel (born May 10, 1842 in Dresden , † June 13, 1914 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Georg Rietschel grave and relatives in the south cemetery in Leipzig

Georg Rietschel was the son of the sculptor Ernst Rietschel and his third wife Maria, geb. Hand, and brother of Hermann Rietschel . Between 1860 and 1863 he studied theology in Erlangen and Leipzig and in 1868 became a pastor in the Saxon church service, initially in Rüdigsdorf . In 1874 he became Primarius in Zittau , four years later senior pastor, superintendent and second director of the seminary in Wittenberg . In August 1884 Rietschel was appointed first director of the seminary. From 1887 he was pastor at St. Matthäus in Leipzig, where he became professor for practical theology in 1889 in connection with a position as the first university preacher and director of the preachers' college at St. Pauli . He kept this position until his retirement in 1911. Rietschel was married to Karoline Müllensiefen, a daughter of the Berlin pastor Julius Müllensiefen . The son Siegfried (1871–1912), born in Rüdigsdorf, became a lawyer, the son Ernst (1872–1960) , also born in Rüdigsdorf, a theologian, and the son Hans (1878–1970), born in Wittenberg, became a doctor.

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Rietschel distinguished himself primarily as a liturgist . With his main work, the two-volume “Textbook of Liturgy”, which was not only the sum of his scientific, predominantly historically oriented research activities, he worked well into the middle of the 20th century, especially since the work of Paul Graff was revised and in the middle of the 20th century was reissued.

Publications

• Granting communion of the Lord's Supper to Reformed and Uniate in their right and in their duty according to the confession of the Lutheran Church , 1869
• Martin Luther and Ignatius von Loyola, A comparative characteristic of their inner development , Wittenberg 1879
• Luther and the ordination , in a commemorative publication for the 400th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Martin Luthers, ed. from the seminary in Wittenberg 1883
• Luther and his house (writings of the Association for Reformation History), Halle / S. 1888
• Luther's happy passing , ibid. 1891
• The Word of Faith, sermons for all Sundays and feast days of the church year , Leipzig 1891
• The task of the organ in church services until the 18th century , Leipzig 1892 (previously in a university publication 1892)
• The ev. Church service from the point of view of adoration in spirit and in truth , Halle 1894
• The open guilt in the service and their position after the sermon, with special consideration of the Saxon agendas , in MGkK 1, 1897, 396 ff.
• Open letter to the author of the book: Serious Thoughts , 1900
• Christmas in Church, Art and Folk Life , Bielefeld 1902
• Textbook of liturgy: I The Doctrine of Congregational Services, Göttingen 1900, II The Casualien, Göttingen 1909
• On the reform of religious education in elementary schools , 1909
• The operation of practical theology at the university , 1910 (Festschrift of the Erlanger Student Association)

Secondary literature

• Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh: Liturgy between tradition and renewal. Problems of Protestant liturgical science in the first half of the 20th century presented in the work of Paul Graff , Göttingen 1991
• Joachim Stalmann:  Rietschel, Georg (Christian). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 344-345.
• Wolfgang Ratzmann : The liturgical scientist Georg Rietschel in Leipzig , in: The Theological Faculty of the University of Leipzig. People, profiles and perspectives from six centuries of faculty history , 2005, pp. 276–287

Web links

• Overview of Georg Rietschel's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1888 to winter semester 1911)
• Georg Rietschel in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

predecessor	Office	successor
Hermann Kretzschmar	President of the New Bach Society 1902–1912	Hermann Kretzschmar