Heinrich Hansen (pastor)

Heinrich Hansen

Heinrich Hansen (born October 13, 1861 in Klockries near Lindholm , † April 17, 1940 in Breklum ) was a Protestant pastor and initiator of the high church association .

Life

Heinrich Hansen was born in Klockries near Lindholm in North Friesland as the son of a teacher.

Hansen studied theology in Kiel and Erlangen , Hebrew , Syriac , Arabic and the Old Testament with August Klostermann . He worked as a pastor in Schleswig-Holstein from 1887 , where he looked after the parishes in Reinfeld , Lindholm, on Pellworm , in Kropp and in Olderup near Husum . He retired from 1930 in Husum and from 1937 in Breklum, where he also died.

Church engagement

Hansen composed Latin hymns and advocated the use of the Low German language in worship and sermons. He worked on a Low German Bible translation and published a Low German hymnbook.

By studying the old Lutheran theologians, especially Martin Chemnitz , and the Catholic theologian Johann Adam Möhler , Hansen came to an Evangelical Catholic conception of the church and, on the anniversary of the Reformation in 1917, gave 95 theses in Latin with his work Stimuli et clavi (skewers and nails) and German out, who sharply criticized Protestantism at the time because of the “apostasy from catholicity”. These gave, among other things, the impetus for the establishment of the High Churches Association in October 1918, whose co-founder and first chairman was Hansen. He is one of the most important pioneers of both the church renewal movement in German Protestantism and the church unification movement.

Fonts

• The Oden Solomos in German post-poetry. 1911.
• Lauda Sion Salvatorem. Cantica Latina. 1913.
• Psalmbook. Dat heet Christelige Leeder for Sassische Lüd. 1916 (presumably 1919).
• Stimuli et clavi ie theses adversus huius temporis errores et abusus. Skewers Nails ... (1917). In: Hochkirche . Vol. 1, 1919; Vol. 8, 1926; Vol. 11, 1929; and in: A holy church. 1957, no.5.
• The teaching of the visible church in a Lutheran meaning. In: Una Sancta. Vol. 2, 1926, p. 386 ff.
• Decay and rebuilding of the church. In: A holy church. Vol. 10, 1928, pp. 240 ff., 259 ff.
• Universal Church. One word z. Thinking of all Christians. In: Hochkirche. Vol. 16, 1934, p. 67 ff.
• Johannine age. In: Hochkirche. Vol. 21, 1939, pp. 272 ​​ff.
• The Reformation and its meaning for the entire Church. In: Hochkirche. Vol. 22, 1940/41, p. 293 ff.

swell

• Hansen, Heinrich (Christian Cyclopedia)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hansen, Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 518-519.
• The High Church Association (HV) Origin and history

literature

• Friedrich Heiler :  Hansen, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 632 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Heinrich Kröger u. a .: Between the vernacular and the high church. On the life and work of Pastor Heinrich Hansen (= North Frisian life courses. Ed. By Thomas Steensen . Volume 10). Nordfriisk Instituut, Bräist / Bredstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-88007-365-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinrich Hansen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Heinrich Hansen  in the German Digital Library
• Stimuli et clavi