Heribert Rau
Heribert Marquard Philip Joseph Rau (born February 11, 1813 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 26, 1876 in Offenbach am Main ) was a German free religious pastor, writer and theologian.
Life
Rau learned the trade in Frankfurt and from 1844 became a co-founder of the Unitarian Free Religious Congregation and soon afterwards head of the free religious movement in Frankfurt. For further training he went to the University of Heidelberg after passing the Matura exam to study theology . He married in Heidelberg and had two children. After completing his studies, he became a preacher in the German Catholic community in Stuttgart and from 1849 in Mannheim . There he wrote some free religious writings and because of this, at the instigation of the Orthodox Party, he was removed from office by the government in 1856, after which he moved back to Frankfurt. Here he was exclusively active as a writer until he was again preacher and religion teacher in a German Catholic community in Offenbach am Main in 1868 . He held this office until 1874. He died in 1876.
Rau's work of 103 volumes was varied and included poetry, philosophical, theological, historical and scientific writings, opera texts, novels, short stories and more. Like many other followers of the religious movements around 1850, Rau saw in turning to natural history a way to combine an empirical-analytical approach to the world with a sacred understanding of nature. This became clear in his Gospel of Nature of 1853, which was published eight times by 1897.
Rau was a member of the Frankfurt Freemason Lodge Socrates for steadfastness . His book "New Hours of Devotion for the Promotion of True Religiousness" from 1857 was temporarily on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and was therefore forbidden to read by any Catholic .
Works (selection)
- Alexander von Humboldt : Cultural-historical-biographical novel in six parts . (Frankfurt am M .: Weidinger, 1860)
- General history of the Christian church. From its creation to the present: For the German people. (Frankfurt a. M .: J. Rütten, 1846)
- Emperor and fool. Historical novel. 3 parts. (Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1845)
- Gospel of nature. A book for every home . (1st edition 1853)
- Beethoven , an artist's life. Described in terms of cultural history and biographies . (Leipzig, T. Thomas, 1887)
- Mozart ; an artist life . (Frankfurt am Main, Meidinger, [1858])
literature
- Curt Pfütze: Rau, Heribert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 376-379.
- Susanne Siebert, Rau, Heribert , in: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon VII (1994) 1397–1398.
- Andreas W. Daum : Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public 1848–1914 . 2nd, supplementary edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-486-56551-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Heribert Rau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Heribert Rau in the German Digital Library
- Rau, Heribert Marquard Philipp Joseph. Hessian biography. (As of May 9, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Rau, Heribert in the Frankfurt personal dictionary
- Online books by Heribert Rau
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 194, 199, 206-208, 281, 293, 417-419, 506 .
- ↑ Complete list of the 1946 Index Librorum Prohibitorum ; accessed on June 16, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rau, Heribert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rau, Heribert Marquard Philip Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pastor, writer and theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1876 |
| Place of death | Offenbach am Main |