Heinrich Thiele (theologian)

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Heinrich Thiele, oil painting (1846)

Heinrich August Ludwig Thiele (born January 18, 1814 in Königslutter am Elm ; † May 17, 1886 in Braunschweig ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , educator, court preacher and member of the state parliament .

Life

Heinrich Thiele was born in Königslutter in 1814 as the son of a baker. From the age of 11 he attended the community school and the Martineum in Braunschweig before he graduated from the Collegium Carolinum in 1833 . He then studied Protestant theology in Göttingen and Jena , where Karl von Hase and Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius were among his academic teachers. He passed the first state examination in theology in 1836 at the consistory in Wolfenbüttel . Thiele went to Switzerland in 1837 , where he gave individual lessons at the renowned Fellenberg Institute in Hofwyl near Bern . In 1838 he passed the second state examination in theology in St. Gallen and was ordained there as a Protestant clergyman . In the winter of 1840/1841 Thiele accompanied an English student from the Fellenberg Institute as a tutor to Rome . There he was hired by the Prussian ambassador as deputy minister, which resulted in a permanent position that lasted until 1848 in 1842.

Activity in Braunschweig

After the Brunswick cathedral preacher Franz August Westphal had died in February 1847 , Thiele applied for the position and held a trial sermon in August 1847 in Brunswick cathedral . Thiele was appointed court and cathedral preacher on April 4, 1848. In 1851 he married the Frankfurt merchant's daughter Elisabeth Hetzler (1823-1887). In 1864 he became provost of the Marienberg monastery near Helmstedt and in 1875 abbot of the Riddagshausen monastery . Thiele was co-founder of the Conference of Servants and Friends of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Duchy of Braunschweig , of which he was appointed President in 1868. He was the organizer of mission festivals in the Brunswick Cathedral, he supported the Diakonie and the Marienstift . Thiele founded the Braunschweig rescue center for neglected children, which he has headed since 1853. He belonged to the regional synod from 1872 , was a member of the high school commission from 1876 and from 1881 a conservative member of the Braunschweig state parliament .

Thiele was one of the pioneers in overcoming the rationalistic tendencies in church and theology. He wrote works on church history and successfully campaigned for the renewal of liturgical services. Thiele died in May 1886 at the age of 72 in Braunschweig and was buried in the cathedral cemetery there. An epitaph in the monastery church in Riddagshausen commemorates him. His private collection of prehistoric finds later came into the possession of the Vaterländisches Museum für Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte .

Fonts (selection)

  • General Christian prayer book for promoting true fear of God . Meyer and Zeller, Zurich 1845.
  • Church book for evangelical church services in prayers, honor and songs, reorganized according to the agendas of the Christian Church of Augsburg Confession . Leibrock, Braunschweig 1852.
  • Brief History of the Christian Church for All Estates . 2nd edition, Meyer and Zeller, Zurich 1852.
  • Jerusalem, its location, its holy places and its inhabitants, depicted according to their own experience . Mühlmann, Halle a. P. 1861.
  • Rome as the center of Catholic Christianity, represented according to one's own view . Mühlmann, Halle a. P. 1861.
  • Christian church history for school and home, continued up to the most recent times . 3rd edition, Meyer and Zeller, Stuttgart 1875.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hetzler, Johann Georg Ferdinand . In: Hessian Biography ( online ) (as of June 21, 2019)
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Jünke: Thiele, Heinrich . In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 228 .
personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiele, Heinrich August Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, educator, court preacher and member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Königslutter am Elm
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1886
Place of death Braunschweig