Gustav Adolf Glinz

Gustav Adolf Glinz (born August 22, 1877 in St. Antoni FR ; † April 24, 1933 in Zurich ) was a Swiss Reformed pastor and Protestant high church bishop in the succession of Joseph René Vilatte .

Life

The son of the pastor Emil Glinz and the pastor's daughter Anna Berta Maria Frey studied theology in Neuchâtel NE , Basel, Berlin and Marburg and was ordained a pastor's office in St. Gallen in 1901. He initially worked as a pastor in Tegerfelden , Rheinfelden AG and Straubenzell (St. Gallen), and finally from 1920 to 1930 in Müllheim TG .

In theology and spirituality, Pastor Glinz increasingly adopted an old church Catholic stance and became an advocate of " Protestant catholicity ". In 1921 he joined the ecumenically oriented Swiss Diaconal Association and from 1922 served as head of his (high) church department. In the ecumenical chapel in the Nidelbad in Rüschlikon , he regularly celebrated the Eucharist in high church form, occasionally also after the Roman Missal .

From December 1926 he worked as 1st chairman of the High Church Ecumenical Federation , then as 2nd chairman of the High Church Association . In the summer of 1929 he was ordained a priest by a bishop in apostolic succession . In the spring of 1930 he resigned from the parish office for health reasons (heart disease), but continued to work temporarily as a preacher in Reformed churches.

On August 24, 1930 he was ordained bishop in Rüschlikon. The ordination was carried out by Pierre Gaston Vigué with the assistance of the Austrian Alois Stumpfl , both connected by episcopal ordination with the Église Gallicane of Louis François Giraud . The following day Glinz (bishop's name: Johannes) worked there as co-consecrator at the episcopal ordination of Friedrich Heiler .

Gustav Adolf Glinz is the father of the linguist and Germanist Hans Glinz (1913–2008).

literature

• Friedrich Heiler: Pastor Gustav Adolf Glinz †. The pioneer of Protestant catholicity in Switzerland. In: The High Church. Volume 15, 1933, pp. 109–112 and panel before p. 109.
• Friedrich Heiler:  Glinz, Gustav Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 455 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hans Hartog: Evangelical catholicity. Friedrich Heiler's path and vision . Grünewald, Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-7867-1836-9 .