Heinrich Adolf Köstlin

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Heinrich Adolf Köstlin (born September 4, 1846 in Tübingen , † June 4, 1907 in Stuttgart - Cannstatt ) was a German Protestant theologian , music writer and music philosopher .

family

Köstlin was the son of the Tübingen professor for criminal law and poet lawyer Christian Reinhold Köstlin and the singer and song composer Josephine Caroline Lang . She was the daughter of the Munich violinist and member of the Munich court orchestra Theobald Lang (1783-1839) and the chamber singer Regina Hitzelberger and niece of the opera singer Johanna Hitzelberger , Regina's sister.

Heinrich Adolf Köstlin married Sophie Gerok (1847–1930), daughter of the court preacher and poet Karl von Gerok (1815–1890) and Sophie Kapff (1827–1905) on March 10, 1873 . Four years later, the daughter Therese Köstlin (1877–1964), the famous Württemberg poet, was born.

Life

Heinrich Köstlin attended the Schöntal Monastery seminar from 1860 and studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen from 1864 to 1868 . As a student, he became a member of the Roigel Royal Society of Tübingen in 1864 . After successfully completing his degree, Köstlin took over a vicariate in neighboring Weilheim before moving to Paris as a tutor in 1869 . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he took part as a field preacher . Then he returned to Germany and became a repetiteur at the Tübingen monastery . From 1873 he officiated as pastor in Sulz am Neckar , 1875 in Maulbronn , 1878 in Friedrichshafen and 1881 in Stuttgart at the Johanneskirche. After a first unsuccessful attempt in 1869 to do his doctorate with a thesis on Richard Wagner , the Philosophical Faculty of Tübingen received his doctorate in 1877 on the basis of his music history published two years earlier.

In 1883 Heinrich Adolf Köstlin became professor for practical theology at the preacher's seminary in Friedberg / Hessen . This was followed by appointments to the senior consistorial councilor and superintendent of the Starkenburg province in Darmstadt in 1891 and four years later to a professorship for practical theology at the University of Giessen , which had awarded him an honorary theological doctorate in 1886 . After his retirement in 1901, Köstlin first moved back to Darmstadt, but moved to Cannstatt in 1904. His grave is preserved in the Cannstatter Uffkirchhof .

Heinrich Adolf Köstlin made great contributions to a community liturgy and practical pastoral care far beyond Hesse. He combined influences from Johann Tobias Beck , Christian Palmer (1811–1875) and Richard Rothe with the theology of his time.

Working for the music

Heinrich Adolf Köstlin was familiar with choral singing from childhood: his mother practiced the trio from Mozart's Magic Flute with her little ones and Friedrich Silcher (1789–1860), a friend of the house, used to try out his freshly composed songs on Köstlin's children. So it is not surprising that Köstlin, who played several instruments himself (his main instrument was the cello), took an early interest in music history and musical aesthetics. In the winter semester of 1872/73, he was already giving lectures on music history at the University of Tübingen as a repetitionist , which formed the basis for his successful book History of Music in Outline . Representing Otto Scherzer (1821–1886), Köstlin took over the management of the academic song board for some time, which later made him an honorary member. Köstlin's work on music history is now largely out of date. He earned lasting merits in evangelical church singing and evangelical choirs . The formerly flourishing Protestant choir had declined to insignificant remains at the beginning of the 19th century. Köstlin organized the evangelical choir as an association and reoriented it musically and theologically. In 1875 he founded a federation of the church choirs Calw, Nagold and Sulz from which the Evangelical church choir for Württemberg emerged in 1877 . In 1881, on the initiative of Köstlin and Ludwig Hallwachs, the associations of Württemberg, Hesse, Baden, Palatinate and Frankfurt / Main were merged to form the Evangelical Church Choral Society for Southwest Germany , from which the Evangelical Church Choral Society for Germany (KGVD) emerged in 1883 . Köstlin was first deputy, then from 1901 to 1905 chairman of the KGVD. In particular, he campaigned for the establishment of voluntary church and children's choirs in all Protestant communities and campaigned for the recognition of choral singing as an essential element of worship.

Fonts (selection)

  • From serious days. A series of field sermons given in 1870 and 1871 Stuttgart 1871
  • An outline of the history of music for the educated of all classes , Tübingen 1875, 6th edition Leipzig 1910
  • Candidate drives. From the papers of a Swabian pastor , Tübingen 1876, 2nd edition Freiburg / Br. 1884; 2nd edition under the title candidate trips , Leipzig a. Tubingen 1899
  • Carl Maria von Weber. Friedrich Silcher. With the portraits of the two composers , Stuttgart 1877
  • The art of music. Introduction to the Aesthetics of Music , Stuttgart 1879
  • Music as a Christian People's Power , Heilbronn 1880
  • Josephine Caroline Lang | Josefine Lang , Leipzig 1881
  • Luther as the father of Protestant church singing , Leipzig 1882
  • The concept of ecclesiastical office , Ludwigsburg 1885
  • In the field. Pictures and memories from 1870/71 , Friedberg 1886, 3rd edition Darmstadt 1895
  • History of Christian worship. A manual for lectures and exercises in seminars , Freiburg / Br. 1887
  • The doctrine of pastoral care according to Protestant principles , Berlin 1895, 2nd verb. Ed. 1907
  • Sermons and speeches , Gießen 1901, 2nd edition 1905
  • Editor of Hallelujah, organ for sacred music in churches, homes, clubs and schools . 1884-86; Keep what you have (since 1889); Monthly magazine for pastoral theology (since 1905)

literature

  • Article Köstlin, Heinrich Adolf . In: Music in the past and present . Volume 7, p. 1394
  • Karl Dienst :  Köstlin, Heinrich Adolf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 292-293.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Köstlin, Heinrich Adolf (1846–1907). In: Schwabenspiegel. Literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1800–1950. Edited by Manfred Bosch , Ulrich Gaier, Wolfgang Rapp a. a., Volume 1.2., Biberach / Riß 2006, pp. 87-88, 211-212 (list of works and literature).
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Silcher's "guinea pig": Heinrich Adolf Köstlin founded the Evangelical Church Choir . In: Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg. Stuttgart edition . Volume 103, No. 16, April 20, 2008, p. 4
  • Maria Köstlin (ed.): The book of the Köstlin family . Stuttgart 1931, pp. 15, 150-151
  • Christian Rak: War, Nation and Denomination. The experience of the Franco-German war of 1870/71 . Paderborn 2004, pp. 202-210
  • Gerhard Schuhmacher:  Köstlin, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 408 ( digitized version ).
  • Thomas Stahlberg: Pastoral care in the transition to the “modern world”. Heinrich Adolf Köstlin and Otto Baumgarten in the context of practical theology around 1900 . Göttingen 1998 digitized at google books

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Adolf Köstlin  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 412-414.


personal data
SURNAME Köstlin, Heinrich Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, music writer and music philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1907
Place of death Cannstatt