Gustav Langbein

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Gustav Karl Heinrich August Langbein (born April 16, 1833 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ; † May 8, 1915 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian. From 1886 to 1904 he was the chief clergyman in Mecklenburg-Strelitz as superintendent .

Life

Gustav Langbein was a son of the early deceased deputy principal in Friedland Wilhelm Langbein (1801–1840) and his wife Sophie, nee. Matthias, a pastor's daughter from Altenhagen in Pomerania. From 1842 to 1852 he attended the community school and grammar school in Friedland. He then studied Protestant theology at the universities of Erlangen and Berlin until 1855 . During his studies in Erlangen in 1853 he became a member of the Bubenreuth fraternity . After his exams he worked as a private tutor in Damerow (Pomerania), as was customary at the time.

He became an assistant teacher and in 1862 rector of the community school and secondary school for girls in Friedland. In 1865 he moved to Neustrelitz as principal of the secondary school for girls . In 1870 he became pastor in Weitin (today part of Neubrandenburg ). In 1877 he came back to Neustrelitz as a consistorial councilor and at the same time was given the supervision of the Grand Ducal Library and the associated collections (coin cabinet and antiquities collection). At the turn of the year 1886/87, Grand Duke Friedrich Wilhelm II appointed him as the successor to Hermann Leberecht Ohl as court preacher and superintendent for Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the Principality of Ratzeburg . In 1895 he received the title of Oberhofprediger .

In 1904 he retired and moved back to Friedland. His successor was Karl Horn .

Langbein had been married to Emma since 1861, b. Sauer (1837-1894). His marriage had two sons and three daughters. Gustav Fölsch (1857–1903), Mayor of Woldegk from 1886 to 1903, was his son-in-law.

literature

  • Georg Krüger : The pastors in Stargard since the Reformation. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 69 (1904), pp. 1–270 ( full text ), pp. 145f.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5635 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to death records of St. Mariengemeinde in Friedland 1915, retrieved from ancestry.com on April 28, 2017
  2. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 116.
  3. ^ Official Gazette for Legislation and State Administration 1887, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Langbein, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langbein, Gustav Karl Heinrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedland (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1915
Place of death Friedland (Mecklenburg)