Hermann Petrich

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Hermann Petrich (born May 3, 1845 in Dobberphul , Cammin district , † February 5, 1933 in Berlin-Halensee ) was a German superintendent and writer.

Life

The German Reformation. From the sources of our strength . Hamburg ( Rauhes Haus ) 1916

Hermann Friedrich Martin Petrich was the son of the pastor Wilhelm Petrich and the daughter of Auguste of the Mecklenburg preacher Krog. He attended the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium in Berlin up to the Prima, then the Gymnasium in Pyritz until 1865. He studied theology and philology in Halle, Leipzig and Berlin.

From 1872 Petrich worked as a teacher at the Stargard high school . He married on October 8, 1873 in Heydebreck (now Polish: Potuliniec) at Plathe Charlotte von Bonin . It was here that his writing began with biographical and philological sketches. In the fall of 1879 Petrich became archdeacon in Treptow at Rega . Here he published the first part of his main work, the Pomeranian Life and State Pictures (Hamburg 1880).

From 1886 Petrich switched to religious and ecclesiastical writing and became one of the spiritual fathers and head of the Pomeranian and Moravian Mission Conference.

In 1886 Petrich became chief preacher at St. Stephen's Church in Gartz (Oder) , at the same time he was superintendent and district school inspector. Petrich received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Greifswald .

After his wife's death in 1892, he married her sister Cecilie von Bonin († 1909). On October 1, 1915, he retired and moved to Berlin-Halensee.

Petrich was buried next to his two wives in the Gartzer cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • Ernst Christoph Bindemann . A contribution to the literary and cultural history of the last hundred years , Stargard 1878.
  • Three chapters of the romantic style. A contribution to the characteristics of the romantic school, its language and poetry, with a focus on Ludwig Tieck , 1878.
  • Pomeranian Life and Landscapes , 2 vols., Hamburg 1880/1887.
  • Bugenhagen booklet, the life story of Johann Bugenhagen , called Dr. Pommer , Anklam 1885.
  • Pomeranian Mission Book. History of Pomerania's collaboration in the work of the conversion of the Gentiles. A contribution to the knowledge of the spiritual life on the Baltic Sea , Anklam 1886.
  • Hermann Theodor Wangemann . His life and work for God's kingdom and for the missionary work in particular , Berlin 1895.
  • From Armin to Bismarck . Eleven German men , Hamburg 1897.
  • Princes and leaders. Eleven German men , Hamburg 1898.
  • Friedrich Schiller . His life and poetry , Hamburg 1900.
  • Home and foreign. Twelve German men , Altona 1901.
  • Johann Hinrich Wichern . Life and work of the Herald of the Inner Mission , Hamburg 1908.
  • Queen Luise . A picture of her life. Drawn to the German people in their memory , Hamburg 1910.
  • German women. Stories for young and old in the dear German fatherland , Hamburg 1910.
  • Pastor Meinhof . From the life of a missionary witness in the previous century, told to missionary friends in this century . Berlin undated
  • For freedom and fatherland. German men, German women, German battles a hundred years ago , Hamburg 1912.
  • 1813. A collection of life and battle pictures from the years of the uprising of the German people , Hamburg 1913.
  • Paul Gerhardt . A contribution to the history of the German spirit , Gütersloh 1914.
  • The German Luther . Life and soul from the German past for the German past and future , Hamburg 1917.
  • Pomeranian Reformation Book. 22 stories from the days of our fathers 400 years ago. A Pomeranian home book , Stettin 1917.
  • Alexander Merensky . A picture of life from the German Protestant mission of the last century , Berlin 1919.
  • The song of the fathers. Sunday walks through our hymn book , Gütersloh 1924.
  • Our spiritual folk song , Gütersloh 1924.
  • Our sects, free churches and ideological societies. Commonly presented and measured against the Gospel of Jesus , Berlin 1928.
  • Adolf and Henriette von Thadden and their Trieglaffer circle. Pictures from the revival movement in Pomerania , Stettin 1931.

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Petrich, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German superintendent and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobberphul , Cammin County
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1933
Place of death Halensee