Gustav Warneck

Gustav Warneck

Gustav Adolf Warneck (born March 6, 1834 in Naumburg ; † December 26, 1910 in Halle (Saale) ) was a Protestant theologian and founder of systematic Protestant missiology . He is the father of Johannes Warneck .

Life

Warneck studied theology at the theological faculty of the University of Halle after he had first learned the needlework and then trained on the Latina of the Francke Foundations in Halle . During his studies he became a member of the Hallenser Wingolf . He worked for several years in the preacher's office, including from 1863 as a pastor in Dommitzsch near Torgau , and in 1871 was appointed mission inspector in Barmen . Due to illness, however, he moved to the parish office in Rothenschirmbach near Eisleben in 1874 . August Schreiber was his successor as a teacher at the missionary seminary.

In 1874 Warneck founded the Allgemeine Missions-Zeitschrift , which he published in conjunction with Reinhold Grundemann . In 1879 he called the Saxon Provincial Mission Conference into being. In 1896 he was appointed professor of missiology in Halle (already retired as pastor) , which was the first time this subject was institutionalized at a German university.

Fonts (selection)

• Mission Hours , Vol. 1: Mission in the Light of the Bible . 1878
• The mutual relationships between modern mission and culture . 1879
• The Christian mission: its factual justification and factual execution in the present . 1879
• Outline of a History of Protestant Missions . 1882
• Mission Hours , Vol. 2: The Mission in Pictures from its History . 1884
• Protestant illumination of the Roman attacks on the evangelical pagan mission . 1884-85
• What duties do our colonies impose on us? . 1885
• The mission in school. A handbook for teachers . 1887
• The position of the evangelical mission on the slave question . 1889
• Evangelical missionary teaching . 1892, updated 2015 edition
• Werner Raupp (ed.): Mission in source texts. History of the German Evangelical Mission from the Reformation to the World Mission Conference Edinburgh 1910 , Erlangen / Bad Liebenzell 1990, pp. 364–378 (introduction, source excerpts, lit.).

literature

• Martin Kähler , Johannes Warneck: D. Gustav Warneck. 1834-1910. Berlin 1911.
• Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Volume 3. Leipzig 1920, p. 677.
• Hans Kasdorf: Gustav Warneck's missiological legacy: A biographical-historical investigation. Brunnen, Gießen / Basel 1990.
• Werner Raupp :  Gustav Warneck. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 359-371. (with detailed bibliography).
• Dieter Becker, Andreas Feldtkeller : It all began in Halle ... missiology from Gustav Warneck to the present day (= missiology research. New series, volume 5). Erlangen 1997.
• Werner Raupp : Warneck, Gustav. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann u. a. (Ed.): Killy. Literary dictionary. Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Edition. Volume 12. Berlin / Boston 2011, pp. 147–148.
• Gustav Warneck. Evangelical Mission Doctrine: An attempt at mission theory . Edited and ed. by Friedemann Knödler. with an introduction by Thomas Schirrmacher. edition afem - mission classics - ISSN 0944-1085 - Volume 8. Publishing house for culture and science: Bonn, 2015. 2 part-volumes of 630 p., together. 1260 p. ISBN 978-3-86269-098-5
• Werner Raupp : Art .: Warneck, Gustav Adolf, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 27, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2020, pp. 431–432.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gustav Warneck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Gustav Warneck in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis