Hermann Julius Robert Calinich

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Hermann Julius Robert Calinich (born January 28, 1834 in Niederfriedersdorf ; † January 13, 1883 in Wiesbaden ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, author and Hamburg's chief pastor.

Life

Hermann Julius Robert Calinich came from Upper Lusatia and was the son of an economic administrator. From Easter 1847 to high school graduation in 1855 he attended the Christian-Weise-Gymnasium in Zittau . He studied Protestant theology and philology at the University of Leipzig and in 1855 became a member of the Lausitzer Predigergesellschaft zu Leipzig . In the summer of 1858 he took his first theological exam and then accepted a position as private tutor in the family of the Baron von Haugk. In the winter of 1858/59 he went on a trip to Algiers with Haugk . In July 1859 he became a teacher at the Selecta of the Citizens' School in Zschopau and in 1860 he came to the Kreuzschule in Dresden as a high school teacher . On October 8, 1860, he passed the second theological exam. In April 1863 he was appointed deacon (preacher) at St. Jacobi in Chemnitz and on July 19, 1869 pastor of St. Johannis in Chemnitz. On February 6, 1872, he was elected as the successor to Gustav Baur, who had been appointed to the University of Leipzig, as the main pastor of the main church Sankt Jacobi in Hamburg . He took up this office in May and remained in it until his death.

When Calinich came to Hamburg, he had already made himself known through scientific work. The focus of his publications was the relationship between the reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon , the Melanchthonism of the Philippists in Electoral Saxony and the development of Lutheran Orthodoxy . In Chemnitz he belonged to the liberal Protestant association; after his transfer to Hamburg he resigned from him, which some of the members of the church council who had elected him resented. However, he soon found general trust in Hamburg's church circles . Building on a teaching concept he developed himself, so-called courses with a small number of participants, he founded a school for secondary daughters and hired Antonie Milberg as its director.

The church order of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state was renewed in 1871, and Calinich participated in the work necessary for the introduction and implementation of the new church constitution. As the main pastor, he was automatically a member of the church council , the church leadership, and represented the Hamburg Church at the Eisenach Conference of German Protestant Church Leaders. When the conference in 1880 decided to commission a commission with the submission of a uniform, correct and contemporary text of Martin Luther's Small Catechism , Calinich became a member of this commission, which in addition to him was the senior consistorial councilor Hermann von der Goltz from Berlin , initially Ludwig Ernesti and after his death the Secret Church Council Hesse from Weimar belonged. The commission held its meetings in Hamburg. Calinich was commissioned to publish the result of their deliberations. The church conference essentially adopted its text form.

A reconsideration of the role of choir singing in church services, initiated by him in 1877 with his writing Pium desiderium , led in 1882 to the establishment of the Hamburg Church Choir by Robert Theodor Odenwald (1838–1899).

In 1882 Calinich went to Davos for a longer cure . On the return trip to Hamburg he died in Wiesbaden.

Since July 5, 1863 he was married to Johanna, geb. Saxons. After her death on September 25, 1875, he married Emmy, born on June 11, 1878. Feddersen (1847-1931). Three children, a son and two daughters survived from his first marriage. The son, Robert Johannes Calinich (born November 11, 1866) became a secondary school teacher in Oschatz .

Works

  • Luther and the Augsburg Confession. Leipzig 1861 (crowned award script).
  • The struggle and fall of melanchthonism in Electoral Saxony from 1570 to 1574 and the fate of its most distinguished heads. 1866 ( archive.org ).
  • How Saxony became Orthodox Lutheran. 1866.
  • Two Saxon Chancellors 1868.
  • The Pope and the Ecumenical Council. A prince protest from the time of the Reformation. 1868.
  • The Naumburger Fürstentag 1561. A contribution to the history of Lutheranism and Melanchthonism. 1870 ( catalog.hathitrust.org ).
  • De conventu anno 1574 Torgae habito deque articulis ibi propositis. 1873
  • The old belief. Hamburg 1877 (one vintage sermons).
  • From the sixteenth century. Cultural history studies. 1876.
  • A pium desiderium for our main service: dedicated to the parish councils of the seven Evangelical Lutheran parishes of the city of Hamburg. Hamburg: Gräfe 1877.
  • D. Martin Luther's little catechism. Revised text. Published on behalf of the Catechism Commission of the German Protestant Church Conference. Printed as a manuscript. 1882.
  • D. Martin Luther's little catechism. Contribution to the text revision of the same. Published at the instigation of the German Protestant Church Conference in Eisenach. Leipzig 1882.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl August Jentsch: History of the Lausitzer Predigergesellschaft zu Leipzig and a list of all its members from the years 1716-1866. Schmaler & Pech, Bautzen 1867, p. 35, no. 381.
  2. ^ Carl Bertheau:  Calinich, Hermann Julius Robert . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 422-424.
predecessor Office successor
Gustav Baur Senior Pastor at St. Jacobi in Hamburg
1872–1883 		Georg Heinrich Röpe
personal data
SURNAME Calinich, Hermann Julius Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, author and Hamburg chief pastor
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederfriedersdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1883
Place of death Wiesbaden