Georg Treviranus

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Georg Gottfried Treviranus (born January 12, 1788 in Bremen , †  August 22, 1868 in Bremen) was a pastor of the Bremen awakening movement and a co-founder of the Inner Mission , the Evangelical Alliance and the German Evangelical Church Congress .

Life

Georg Treviranus was born as the son of the merchant and broker Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus and his wife Gesine Judith Treviranus, née Duckwitz. Despite the father's occupation, the family on the father's side belonged to an influential pastor family whose origins can be traced back to the 16th century. He was a nephew of the Bremen mayor and founder of Bremerhaven Johann Smidt .

In 1802 Treviranus was confirmed with the Enlightenment pastor Petri in the church of St. Ansgari. Like his father, he first learned to be a businessman and worked as a businessman for four years. He then studied first at the Bremen Gymnasium Illustre and from 1808 at the University of Göttingen and later at the University of Tübingen . In Göttingen he studied with the church historian Gottlieb Jakob Planck and acquired a German-language Bible for the first time. The move to Tübingen was motivated by the fact that he found the studies in Göttingen to be too rationalistic. While he was still studying in Tübingen, Treviranus was elected pastor in the community of Grambke-Mittelbühren by the Bremen Senate in 1810 , although he was still studying in Göttingen in the winter semester of 1810/1811.

After his return to Bremen, he took an exam at the Reformed Ministry of Bremen on April 23, 1811 and the trial sermon on April 28, 1811. He was ordained on May 1, 1811, and on May 12, 1811, the pastor Büsing from Gröpelingen introduced him to his office in Grambke-Mittelbühren. During the time in Grambke-Mittelbühren he studied the Old Testament and the writings of the revival preacher Gottfried Menken intensively . On September 25, 1814 Treviranus was elected second preacher in the Bremen parish of St. Martini next to Menken. He worked there alongside Menken until 1825, and in 1815 married Mathilde Castendyk, the daughter of a Senator from Bremen. The marriage resulted in ten children, five of whom died in the first years of life. After Menken resigned, he was elected the first pastor of the community in October 1826. In 1846 he traveled to London to found the Evangelical Alliance, in 1846 he took part in the Wittenberg Kirchentag, which led to the establishment of the German Evangelical Kirchentag, which existed from 1848–1872. The Inner Mission formed in Bremen in 1852 goes back to his name.

Honors

In 1861 Treviranus received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin.

plant

While many of his predecessors (such as Menken, Friedrich Ludwig Mallet and Johann Heinrich Bernhard Dräseke) stood out as preachers, Treviranus worked primarily through the establishment and maintenance of personal, often very far-reaching, relationships, extensive club activities and considerable organizational talent.

The founding of the small women's association in 1814 and the large women's association in 1816, an association for released prisoners in 1837 and the men's sickness association in 1840/41 went back to him; For ten years he led the association for the Protestant Germans in (North) America and he was instrumental in the creation of the club house "Concordia" in 1841 for all these associations. Overall, he was involved in the establishment of 20 clubs. With the “Ellener Hof” in 1846/1847 he created a home for neglected children based on the model of the Rauhen Haus in Hamburg, and was active around the same time in the “Association for the Care of Poor Weechenerinnen”. In 1849, under the influence of the revolution of 1848 , he co-founded the Inner Mission Association in Bremen. In 1850 he became President of the Inner Mission.

Treviranus conducted an extensive correspondence with the representatives of the revival movement, with the German Christianity Society in Basel and, as secretary of the Bremen Bible Society sponsored by Gottfried Menken, with the British and Foreign Bible Society in London. He also led a lively and extensive correspondence with the leaders of the Basler Missions-Gesellschaft Wilhelm Hoffmann, Friedrich Joseph Josenhans and Johann Christoph Blumhardt. The extensive and friendly correspondence with Johann Hinrich Wichern is also worth mentioning .

Treviranus published numerous articles, especially in the Bremer Kirchenbote.

Others

Friedrich Engels lived in Georg Treviranus' house from 1839 to 1841 during his commercial training in Bremen.

Publications

  • (Co-author): Confession of pastors from Bremen in matters of truth . Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1840. Digitalized MDZ reader
  • The right figure of Christ in his members . Ed. For the best of the male health club with a foreword by GG Treviranus. Schünemann, Bremen 1841.
  • In memory of Friedrich Ludwig Mallet , Pastor prim. to St. Stephani in Bremen. Müller, Bremen 1865.
  • In grateful memory of the emer. Pastor prim. D. Georg Gottfried Treviranus. Last sermon of the deceased and the speeches given at his funeral . Valett, Bremen 1868. Digitized

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SURNAME Treviranus, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treviranus, Georg Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1868
Place of death Bremen