Hugo Gotthard Bloth

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Hugo Gotthard Bloth , originally Gotthard Hugo Theodor Bluth (born June 4, 1898 in Berlin , † November 30, 1986 in Münster ) was a German Protestant theologian, religious educator and historian .

Life

Hugo Gotthard Theodor Bloth was the son of pastor Ernst Gotthard Bluth (1858–1903) and his wife Marianne Emile Magarete, nee. von Bonin (1858-1935). He attended the grammar school in Neustettin , took part in the First World War on foot as a lieutenant in the 4th Guards Regiment and was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd and then 1st class. He then studied Protestant theology in Berlin , Göttingen and Greifswald and was active in the Greifswald and Göttingen Wingolf . After Bloth was ordained in 1924, he became pastor in Demmin , in 1927 in Verchen , in 1931 at the Heiliggeist Church in Stargard and in 1936 in Neustettin.

In 1925 Bloth married the pastor's daughter Elisabeth Marie Niemann in Minden . The couple had three sons and three daughters, including the later theologian Peter C. Bloth .

During World War II he served as captain of the reserve until 1940 and then as war pastor in Prague . In 1943 he was at the German University in Prague with a dissertation on Valerian Magnis to Dr. phil. PhD. In 1945 the family fled to the West. After the war, Bloth headed the Ecclesiastical Pedagogical Seminar of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . In 1950 he was appointed professor at the Pedagogical Academy in Dortmund , where he taught until his retirement in 1963. He was a member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania .

His estate is kept in the Herder Institute in Marburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Jusquinus von Gosen (Stralsund 1628): play. 1930
  • The fight of the Capuchin Valerian Magni (1586–1661) against the Jesuit order . Prague 1943 (diss.)
  • The fight for the Bible from Lessing to Karl Barth . Gladbeck 1949
  • From Adolph Diesterweg's diary 1818 to 1822 . Frankfurt a. M. 1956
  • Adolph Diesterweg. His life and work for education and school . Heidelberg 1966
  • The church in Pomerania. Order and service of the Protestant bishops and superintendent general of the Pomeranian Church from 1792 to 1919 . Cologne 1979, ISBN 978-3-412-03478-8

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So still on the marriage entry, registry office Minden from June 5, 1925; according to the margin note, the surname was not officially changed to Bloth until 1956 ; Retrieved from ancestry.com on May 8, 2019; see also German Gender Book 191 (1985), p. 21
personal data
SURNAME Bloth, Hugo Gotthard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bloth, Hugo Gotthard Theodor; Bluth, Gotthard Hugo Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, religious educator and historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1986
Place of death Muenster