Heinrich Bäthig

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Heinrich Bäthig , after the emigration Henry Baethig (born November 22, 1809 in Halbau , † December 5, 1871 in Buffalo ) was a German-American preacher of a free Christian community in Nuremberg and later a photographer and doctor in Buffalo.

Life

He attended school in his hometown and high school in Wroclaw . During his studies in 1831 he became a member of the old Breslau fraternity Arminia . After studying theology at the University of Breslau, his liberal outlook prevented him from being employed as a clergyman in the Prussian regional church . From 1845 he was initially a preacher in a German Catholic community in Groß-Glogau and was called to Nuremberg in 1848 as a preacher for the local free Christian community in the Katharinenkirche . Bäthig, as a “man of education, good speaker, and modestly praised in his demeanor, won extraordinary applause in the city”.

After the failure of the revolution of 1848/49 , he decided, like many Forty-Eighters , to emigrate to the USA . He left Germany in October 1850 and reached New York City in December . From there he traveled to Buffalo, where he hoped for better opportunities. At first he worked as a photographer; In 1864 he was the owner of a drug store . After studying pharmacy and medicine, Henry Baethig MD was inducted into the American Institute of Homoeopathy in 1869 . He became a sought-after homeopath in Buffalo and was also politically involved in building the urban community.

He married Adelaide Zierkusch in 1847. The couple had a son Heinrich / Henry (1850–1906), who was still born in Nuremberg, who also became a doctor and a well-known homeopath in Buffalo, and a daughter, Louise, who died young.

Works

  • Faith in Christ. Sermon on John 3: 11-18 and Romans 10: 1-4, delivered in the free Christian community in Nuremberg. Nuremberg: W. Tümmel (1849)
  • What do we want? What shall we? What do we hope Sermon on Joh. 6, 63-68 u. 1. Joh. 5, 2-4, on the festival of recognition of the free Christian communities in Bavaria. Nuremberg: W. Tümmel 1849
  • Jesus Christ not a person like us, and yet a person like us? Sermon about Luc. 7, 11-17 Eph. 3, 13-21. Nuremberg: W. Tümmel 1849
  • Hymn and prayer book for free Christian communities. Nuremberg: self-published, printed by Wilhelm Tümmel in 1849
  • Open answer to the open letter from Mr. Johann Wirth, second evangelical-Protestant pastor in Markt Redwitz. Nuremberg: Wilh. Tümmel 1850

literature

  • Ludwig Brunner: Political Movements in Nuremberg 1848-49. Heidelberg: Carl Winter 1907 ( digitized version ), p. 118.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 34–35.
  • Ferdinand Minsberg: History of the city and fortress Groß-Glogau. Volume 2, Glogau 1853 ( digitized version ), p. 430.
  • Johann Wirth: Open letter to Mr. Heinrich Bäthig, preacher of the free community in Nuremberg. Erlangen: Th. Bläsing 1850
  • Johann Wirth: Defense against the "open answer" of Mr. Heinrich Bäthig, preacher of the free community in Nuremberg, to my "open letter". Erlangen: Bläsing 1850.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brunner (Lit.), p. 118.
  2. ^ Thomas' Buffalo city directory for 1864 ( digitized version ), p. 132.
  3. ^ The New England Medical Gazette 4 (1869), p. 257 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Bäthig, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baethig, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American preacher, later photographer and doctor in Buffalo
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Half building
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1871
Place of death Buffalo