Hermann Herlitz

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Hermann Herlitz (1834–1920) around 1860 with the Basel Mission (Switzerland)

Hermann Herlitz (born June 10, 1834 in Neisse , Prussian province of Silesia , † June 9, 1920 in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia ) was a Protestant pastor of Jewish descent in Melbourne.

family

Herlitz married Wilhelmine Feldmann in 1864.

Life

From 1847 to 1855 Herlitz trained as a businessman and later had various jobs as a businessman and traveler . In London he converted from the Jewish faith to Protestantism in 1857 , made his theological training at the Basel Mission in Switzerland from 1859 to 1862 and in 1862 he was ordained in Durlach .

Herlitz emigrated to Australia for his first parish and was pastor of the Grovedale congregation (formerly: Germantown) near Geelong from 1862–1868 , then from 1868 to 1914 pastor of the German Trinity congregation in Melbourne. He was there in the first place, the second pastor of the evangelical church and is known as the "architect" of an all-Australian Lutheran referred church.

The beginnings of German Lutheranism in Australia go back to pastors and parishes who emigrated from Prussia because of the introduction of the Old Prussian Union in order to be able to live their familiar Lutheran faith undisturbed in a distant continent . The Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Congregation Melbourne, founded in 1853, and the German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sydney , founded in 1866, are among the beginnings of Lutheran congregations and churches in Australia since 1838.

Herlitz was President of the Lutheran Synod in the British Crown Colony of Victoria , which was founded by his predecessor Matthias Goethe in 1856, and from 1876 also President of the Evangelical Lutheran General Synod. From 1868 to 1914 he worked in the Trinity Church in Melbourne.

Herlitz did not retire until 1914. After he died on June 9, 1920, he was buried in Melbourne General Cemetery .

Orders and decorations

literature

  • JS Martin: A Divided Heart. In: A History of Trinity German Lutheran Church. Melbourne during the pastorate of Hermann Herlitz 1868–1914. River Seine Press, Melbourne 2001
  • Geoffrey Burkhardt and Nola Mackey: History of the German Community in the Clarence River District of NSW. Grafton Family History Center, Grafton 1999
  • Herbert Mees: A German Church in the Garden of God. Melbourne's Trinity Lutheran Church 1853–2003. AKi Historical Society for Trinity German Lutheran Church, Melbourne 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Herlitz, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Merchant in Germany and England, pastor and synod president in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia)
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Neisse , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1920
Place of death Melbourne , Australia