Gerhard Eberlein

Superintendent Gerhard Eberlein 1858–1923

Gerhard Viktor Friedrich Johannes Eberlein (born January 16, 1858 in Freiburg in Silesia , Schweidnitz district ; † August 20, 1923 in Strehlen , Strehlen district ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Life

Eberlein was born as the son of the principal and senior teacher Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Eberlein (born November 23, 1800 in Löwenberg in Silesia ; † October 16, 1872 in Freiburg in Silesia) and his wife Johanna Henrietta, née Hübler, widowed Hartmann (born December 18, 1872 in Freiburg, Germany) 1812 in Grünberg in Silesia ; † June 5, 1884 in Freiburg in Silesia). Gerhard Eberlein completed a degree in theology at the University of Breslau , from which he graduated with a licentiate . He worked as a pastor in Rybnik , Royn , Groß-Strehlitz and finally from November 1, 1906 as superintendent of the parish of Strehlen. He also taught church history at the University of Breslau.

Eberlein was elected to the Silesian Provincial Synod , of which he was President from 1920 , and was appointed to the General Synod in Berlin . He was the chairman of the Silesian Pastors' Association, of which he was a co-founder, and played a key role in the Silesian Hymnal Commission, which published the Silesian Provincial Hymn in 1908. He was a member of the examination board of the Provincial Church and together with others founded the Silesian Preachers' Conference. At his instigation, the Evangelical Church Gazette for Silesia was founded, which he sponsored with numerous reports. He also took part in the conference for the Silesian Synodal Deaconry and was ultimately its chairman. After the collapse of the empire and the state church in 1918, he became a member of the constituent assembly and the constitutional committee of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Eberlein published numerous individual studies on the Silesian church history, which he had published mainly in the correspondence sheet of the Association for the History of the Evangelical Church of Silesia . For over 30 years he was the editor of all publications of this association.

On September 16, 1884, Gerhard Eberlein married Anna Luise Caroline Pyrkosch (born July 1, 1865 in Rybnik; † December 24, 1937 in Strehlen) in Rybnik. The couple had seven children who reached adulthood. Five sons became theologians following the example of their father, and two daughters married pastors. Several grandchildren also devoted themselves to theology. Gerhard Eberlein's research on the history of the Church in Silesia was continued and summarized by his son Hellmut Eberlein (born March 13, 1890 in Royn; † July 14, 1957 in Lorch , Württemberg) in the book Schlesische Kirchengeschichte (Goslar: Verlag der Schlesische Evang. Zentralstelle 1952) .

Publications

• The praying children in Jauerschen . In: Correspondence sheet of the Association for the History of the Evangelical Church of Silesia 4, p. 83 ff.
• Documents of Duke Georg von Brieg . In: Correspondence sheet of the Association of the Evangelical Church of Silesia 6, 1898, Issue 1, pp. 119–132.
• Melanchthon and its relations with Silesia . In: Correspondence sheet of the Association of the Evangelical Church of Silesia 6, 1898, Issue 1, pp. 76-101.
• The Protestant Church Orders of Silesia in the 16th century . In: Festschrift Silesiaca 1898.
• The church folk lessons based on the views of the Schwenkfeld circles in Silesia in the first third of the 16th century: At the same time a contribution to the appreciation of Valentin Krautwald . In: Correspondence sheet of the Association for the History of the Evangelical Church of Silesia 7, 1900, pp. 1–48.
• The Silesian border churches in the 17th century . In: Lectures given at the 6th General Assembly of the Association for Reformation History on April 11, 1901 in Breslau, ed. by Erich Brandenburg and Gerhard Eberlein. Halle: Association for Reformation History 1901.
• Lift up your eyes: daily mornings and evening devotions . Written by members of the Evangelical Pastors' Association of the Province of Silesia and ed. by Gerhard Eberlein. Berlin: Warneck 1902.
• Negotiations between the Silesians and especially the Breslauers with King Ferdinand in 1526/27 . In: Journal of the Association for History and Ancient Silesia 1902, pp. 29–58.
• Regional church assembly of the Positive Union . In: The Reformation 1902, No. 2.
• In honor of Valentin Krautwald . In: Correspondence sheet of the Association for the History of the Evangelical Church of Silesia 8, 1903, 268–286.
• The general church visit in the Principality of Wohlau . Liegnitz: Heinze 1905 (= collection of documents on the history of the Protestant Church in Silesia 1)
• Necrologist David Erdmann . In: Journal of the Association for History and Ancient Silesia 40, 1906, pp. 338–341.
• The General Church Visitation in the Principality of Liegnitz from 1654 and 1655: Protocols and enclosures . Liegnitz: Heinze 1917 (= collection of documents on the history of the Protestant Church in Silesia 2)

literature

• Paul Gerhard Eberlein: Formative in the Silesian Church. A reminder of Superintendent D. Gerhard Eberlein on his 150th birthday . In: Schlesischer Gottesfreund 59, 2008, pp. 183-184.
• Hellmut Eberlein: Silesian Church History . Goslar: Verlag der Schlesischen Evang. Central office 1952.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ All communicated data are based on documents and records in the possession of descendants of Gerhard Eberlein.