Heinrich Hermelink

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Heinrich August Hermelink (born December 30, 1877 in Mulki near Mangalore , India , † February 11, 1958 in Munich ) was a German Protestant church historian .

Life

Heinrich Hermelink was born as a missionary child in India, his father was the missionary Jan Hermelink (1848–1909). At the age of eight he was sent to Basel and two years later to the Latin school in Göppingen (where he was a schoolmate of Hermann Hesse ). After studying in Tübingen , which he completed in 1902 with a doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty, he worked at the Stuttgart State Archives between 1904 and 1906 before he did his doctorate and habilitation in 1906 at the Theological Faculty of the University of Leipzig under Albert Hauck . He then worked as a lecturer in Leipzig and, from 1909, also as a pastor. In 1913 he became an associate professor for church history at the University of Kiel .

After Hermelink was seriously wounded in the First World War at the end of 1914, he held a full professorship for church history in Bonn in 1915 and in Marburg from 1918 . Later he also became an Ephorus of the Hessian Scholarship Institution . In 1935 he was forcibly retired because of his opposition to the Nazi regime . He then worked as a pastor in Eschenbach near Göppingen and moved to Munich in 1938, where he was appointed honorary professor in 1945.

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Hermelink wrote numerous special studies and overall presentations on church history from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century, with a focus on Hesse and Württemberg. In addition, he observed the developments in contemporary Catholicism.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • The theological faculty in Tübingen before the Reformation 1477–1534. Dissertation, Tübingen 1906.
  • Catholicism and Protestantism in the present mainly in Germany. Perthes, Stuttgart, Gotha 1923; 2nd edition 1924.
  • (with Siegfried A. Kaehler ): The Philipps University of Marburg 1527–1927. 5 chapters from their history (1527–1866). Elwert, Marburg 1927.
  • History of the Protestant Church in Württemberg from the Reformation to the present. Wunderlich, Stuttgart 1949.
  • The Catholic Church under the Popes of Pius of the 20th century. Evang. Verl., Zollikon-Zurich 1949.
  • Christianity in human history from the French Revolution to the present. Three volumes, Metzler, Stuttgart:
    • Volume 1: Revolution and Restoration 1789–1835. 1951.
    • Volume 2: Liberalism and Conservatism 1835–1870. 1953.
    • Volume 3: Nationalism and Socialism 1870–1914. 1955.
  • (As editor): Church in Struggle. Documents of the resistance and the development in the Protestant Church in Germany from 1933 to 1945. Wunderlich, Stuttgart 1950.

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Klaus-Dieter Stephan: The Hessian Scholarship Institution from 1946 to 1976. In: Study and scholarship. P. 248.
personal data
SURNAME Hermelink, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hermelink, Heinrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant church historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulki near Mangalore , India
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1958
Place of death Munich