Heinrich Adolph
Heinrich Konrad Christian Philipp Adolph (born December 17, 1836 in Nordstemmen , † April 29, 1914 in Nordhausen ) was a Lower Saxony pastor and author of biographical memoirs of local historical importance.
Life
Parents and childhood
Adolph experienced his early childhood in the pastor's house of his birthplace together with nine siblings in the care of his parents. His mother was Johanne Dorothe Amalia Adolph (1803-1880), the daughter of an artilleryman named Heinrich Schmidt, who taught mathematics at the high school in Göttingen and had married into the old Cassius patrician family. His father Johann Heinrich Carl Adolph (1801–1873) was a son of the city forester Johann Anton Adolph and from 1831 to 1847 pastor in Nordstemmen, later in Heiligenfelde (Syke) .
School and study
It was not until late, at the age of three and a half, that Heinrich spoke his first word and probably always struggled with “a heavy, unwieldy tongue”. Together with his brother Carl (1839-1880), he was initially accepted into the tertia of the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim with reservations in 1852, prepared by his father's school lessons .
In 1857 the two brothers enrolled in Göttingen . While the younger one chose mathematics and science, Heinrich Adolph turned to theology, contrary to the advice of his teachers, but in accordance with his father's example and wishes. In 1860 he founded the Georgia-Augusta student choir together with Eduard Kreuzhage , his brother Karl and five other friends in Göttingen . In 1861 Adolph passed his first theological exam.
Private tutor and training to become a pastor
Immediately after graduating, he got a lucrative position as a tutor on a domain in Vienenburg . He did not seize the opportunity to manage a private school planned there, but instead took his second exam in Hanover at the beginning of 1864. Then he moved to the Loccum seminary for further training . There he sat for two years under Friedrich Rupstein . Equipped with recommendations, Adolph went to Hanover on October 3, 1866, to take up a paid position in the cooperators' seminar. From there he was employed in Himbergen in the Göhrde as a cooperator for a sick pastor. This task was extremely demanding on him mentally and physically. When he lost the congregation's trust, he applied for a vacant pastor's position in Heinde . From February 1867 he experienced his happiest years there.
crisis
Adolph's lucky star began to decline when the section of the North German Protestant Association became active in Hildesheim and there were public disputes between orthodox and liberal representatives of the Protestant Church.
From 1876 to 1879 Adolph occupied a pastor's position in Jerstedt . He then became a pastor in Bevenrode . From 1898 onwards he spent his retirement in Braunschweig .
Fonts
- How should the church behave towards those who despise baptism and marriage? Braunschweig 1885.
- Memories of a clergyman from Lower Saxony . Bielefeld / Leipzig 1907. (The first sections of his memoirs were published in advance in the Sunday newspaper Der Reichsbote , Berlin)
literature
- Dirk Kemper (Hrsg.): Hildesheim Literature Lexicon from 1800 until today (= publications of the Hildesheim Regional Association. Volume 6). Olms, Hildesheim 1996, p. 18 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church book
- ^ Heinrich Adolph: Memories. 1907, p. 2.
- ^ Heinrich Adolph: Memories. 1907, p. 157 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adolph, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adolph, Heinrich Konrad Christian Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lower Saxony pastor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordstemmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1914 |
| Place of death | Nordhausen |