Hermann Liebig

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Hermann Liebig

Hermann Liebig (born December 21, 1839 in Bernstein / Neumark , † July 18, 1914 in Berlinchen ) was a German Baptist clergyman and writer. He worked in responsible positions in his free church , u. a. as chairman of the then so-called school commission and thus as head of the Baptist seminary in Hamburg .

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Liebig's birthplace Bernstein (around 1890)
Hermann Liebig among the students of the theological seminar (5th from left)
Hermann, Friedrich Wilhelm and August Liebig

Hermann Liebig came from a Lutheran Bernstein family. His parents were the master dyer Friedrich Wilhelm Liebig and his wife Henriette. The family included eight children, seven sons and a daughter. Liebig's father died in 1843 and his mother passed away ten years later. Friedrich Wilhelm, the eldest of the orphaned children, took on the role of father. After leaving school, Hermann Liebig learned the painting trade . In 1834, Johann Gerhard Oncken , who was born in Varel, founded the first German Baptist church in Hamburg together with six other believers . It was the nucleus of a rapidly spreading church planting movement, which reached the small town of Reetz in Neumark via Stettin in the early 1850s . The Liebig children got in touch with the Reetz community and attended their services. In 1854 Friedrich Wilhelm converted to the Baptists and was baptized . Two years later, Hermann and six other siblings in the family followed. A year later, all Liebig children were members of the Preetz Baptist congregation. In addition to Hermann, four other Liebig sons later became preachers and missionaries of the Baptists: Ludwig Liebig , August Liebig , Friedrich Wilhelm Liebig and Helmut Liebig .

In addition to his professional activity, Hermann Liebig initially worked as a craft missionary in Magdeburg from 1861. In 1865 he attended a missionary course set up by Johann Gerhard Oncken , the founder of the German Baptists. This took place in a garden house on the property of the Hamburg Baptist Church on Böhmkenstraße and was the nucleus of the German Baptist seminary founded in 1880. In 1868 the Lübeck Baptist congregation appointed him their preacher. Four years later, he was appointed to the service of the Stettin Baptist Congregation , where Liebig, in addition to his pastoral work, developed an extensive inter-congregational activity.

Hermann Liebig published von Stettin aus der Hülfsboten , a homiletic quarterly magazine, and translated numerous sermons by the internationally known London preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon . It was especially for this purpose that he learned the English language as an autodidact , although he could only speak it in writing. His own literary products include, among other things, didactic and apologetic writings as well as a series of stories, each of which deals with a request from the Our Father in prose. Since Herrmann Liebig was also popular as a speaker at larger conferences, extensive travel activities developed that made him known far beyond the boundaries of his actual place of work.

From 1882 on, Liebig was a member of the federal administration of the German Baptist Union, initially in his capacity as chairman of the school commission , which was in charge of the Hamburg seminary founded in 1880. From 1903 Liebig was also chairman of the federal administration. Other supraregional fields of activity of Liebig were the collaboration in the hymn book commission and in the Baptist external mission. At times he chaired the by Eduard Scheve launched Cameroon Mission of the German Baptists.

Selected works

  • The messenger. Quarterly magazine for preachers of the gospel and Bible scholars (edited by Josef Lehmann and Hermann Liebig). The magazine was later published every two months.
  • Illumination and rejection of the doctrine of being born again through baptism , n.d.
  • Jeremiah, a priest and prophet (with Frederick Brotherton Meyer), 1902
  • Pictures from the pilgrimage drawn by CH Spurgeon: A commentary on various passages in the immortal allegory by John Bunyan. With introductory remarks by Thomas Spurgeon (translated into German by Hermann Liebig), Kassel 1906
  • Margarete's home or: Your will be done! , 1910
  • Rosa Konrad - or: How we forgive , 1912
  • Images and parables. A selection of the best illustrations from CH Spurgeon's sermons (edited by Hermann Liebig), Kassel 1903, 1928 (new edition)

literature

  • WH Müller: The five Liebig brothers , undated (in the Oncken archive )
  • Günter Balders : One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. 150 Years of Baptist Congregations in Germany , Kassel 1985 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-7893-7883-6 , p. 351
  • Joseph Lehmann : History of the German Baptists , Vol. II, Cassel 1922 (revised and expanded by FW Herrmann, Preacher in Königsberg i. Pr.)
  • Nicola Bourdon: Craftsman Missionary and Spurgeon Translator. 100 years ago, on July 14, 1914, Hermann Liebig died , in: Zeitschrift Die Gemeinde. Believe. Together. Gestalten (Ed. Bund Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher Gemeinde ), No. 14/2014 (July 13), p. 32

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Liebig: From Stettin to Berlinchen (story of the Liebig family in six sequels). Appeared in the Baptist journal The Truth Witnesses . JG Oncken Published by Kassel; here: The Truth Witness of December 7, 1912. p. 386
  2. ^ Albert W. Wardin Jr .: August GA Liebig: German Baptist Missionary and Friend to the Mennonite Brethren . In: Journal of Mennonite Studies , No. 28/2010. P. 167; for the biography of Hermann Liebig see also Frank Fornacon: Short biography Hermann Liebig ; in: Günter Balders: A Lord, a Faith, a Baptism , Kassel 1980, p. 351
  3. ↑ For the history of the Reetz Baptist church and its numerous stations in the surrounding area, see Rudolf Donat: The growing work. Expansion of the German Baptist congregations for sixty years. 1849-1909 . JG Oncken: Kassel 1960. p. 43f
  4. ↑ Short biographies of the four Liebig brothers mentioned can be found in Joseph Lehmann: History of the German Baptists. Second part from 1848 to 1870 (second completely revised edition by FW Hermann). JG Oncken Nachf .: Cassel 1922. P. 293f
  5. ^ Wiard Popkes: The seminar as a training institute. History and status of the study program ; in: Festschrift 100 years of theological seminary. 1880 - 1980 (edited by Günter Balders in conjunction with the teaching staff), Kassel 1980, p. 37f
  6. ↑ Actually the messenger. Quarterly for gospel preachers and Bible Students ; see complete inventory and bibliography of Pomeranian newspapers ; Accessed September 25, 2009
  7. ↑ Library  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Association for Free Church Research, Friedensau; Accessed September 25, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bibliothek-friedensau.de  

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personal data
SURNAME Liebig, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baptist clergyman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Amber / Neumark
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1914
Place of death Berlinchen