Hugo Johannes Bestmann

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Hugo Johannes Bestmann (born February 21, 1854 in Delve ; † July 13, 1925 in Mölln ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, university professor and clergyman.

Life

Hugo Johannes Bestmann was a son of the Delver pastor Adolf Heinrich Dietrich Bestmann (1810–1878) and his wife Sophie Georgine Petroine, nee. Volquarts (1830-1870). He attended high schools in Schleswig and Husum and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Leipzig, Tübingen and Kiel as well as art history in Berlin. In Kiel in 1875 he passed the official theological examination and the state scientific examination. Attracted by the Erlangen theology , he went on to the University of Erlangen , where he in 1877 with one of Johann von Hofmann supervised work shortly before his death licentiate was with the publication of Hofmann's theology encyclopedia habilitation and lecturer was.

However, his history of Christian custom was scathingly criticized by Adolf von Harnack in the Theologische Literaturzeitung in 1881 . Harnack wrote to his pupil Gustav Kriiger that he had seen this as his duty: If a frivolous, cocky and highly talented fellow like this Bestmann came into the arena, it was the first duty to throw him out ... Now there a call to a professorship failed to materialize, in 1882 Bestmann became a teacher at the Latina of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) and in 1884 also a private lecturer at the theological faculty in Halle . At the beginning of March 1884 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. After a year and a half as a religion teacher at the Lutheran Mission in Leipzig , he became a deacon (2nd pastor) at St. Nicolai in Mölln on May 17, 1886 . On November 22, 1890, he became the chief pastor here. A call for Bestmann to the chair for church history at the University of Kiel, suggested by August Klostermann, as successor to Ernst Wilhelm Möller failed in 1892; was appointed Hans von Schubert .

Pastorate in Mölln

Bestmann developed a rich activity in Mölln. From 1896 he had the Nicolaikirche extensively restored and in 1897 founded the Möllner Theological Teaching Conference , which he viewed as a regional forum for Erlangen theology for the pastors of the North German regional churches; the conferences took place annually in September for over 30 years. In 1910 he was given a new pastorate opposite the church at Am Markt 10, which was set up by Ludwig Raabe and Otto Wöhlecke from Hamburg . The spacious brick building with a half-timbered gable is an example of homeland security architecture that tied in with the Möllner building tradition.

In 1898/99 he published the magazine Der Christliche Herold: magazine for church work and Christian knowledge , which he viewed as a conservative counterpart to Martin Rades liberal Christian world , but remained without a response and was sold in the second year in 1899.

In addition to church and art history, he was particularly interested in hymnology and folk song research. He was co-editor of the General Evangelical Hymnal in 1910.

Bestmann was a member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Schleswig-Holstein for many years . He was a conservative Lutheran, but was opposed to Bismarck's policies and advocated women's suffrage in the church.

1917 awarded him the Theological Faculty of the University of Rostock , the honorary doctorate .

Since 1888 he was married to Marie, b. Brachmann (1865-1934). The couple had six sons and three daughters. The sons included the lawyer Friedrich Bestmann (1890–), Hans Martin Bestmann (1894–1956), pastor and provost in Glückstadt and father of Hans Jürgen Bestmann , and Frithjof Bestmann (1898–1990), provost in Bassum .

Fonts

  • Qua ratione Augustinus notiones philosophiae grnecae ad dogmata anthropologica describenda adhibuerit. Erlangen 1877 (diss.)
  • History of Christian Customs. ( Digital copies )
    • Volume 1: Th. 1. The moral stages in their historical development are presented. Nordlingen 1880
    • Volume 2: 2 The Catholic Customs of the Early Church in its Historical Development. Nördlingen: Beck 1885
  • Theological science and the Ritschl school. A polemic. Nördlingen: Beck 1881
  • The Beginnings of Catholic Christianity and Islam: An Examination of the History of Religions. Nördlingen: Beck 1884 ( digitized version )
  • Quaestionum ethicarum part. 1. Hall: Orphanage 1884, Phil. Diss. V. 8. [Diploma v. 1.] March 1884
  • The image of our emperor in the light of eternity: Sermon on Sunday Latare (March 11th) 1888 in d. Nicolai Church in Mölln. Mölln: Alwart 1888
  • The German folk song. Mölln: Alwart 1888 ( digitized version )
  • Development history of the kingdom of God under the old and new covenants on the basis of an analysis of the sources. 2 volumes, Berlin: Wiegandt & Grieben 1896–1900 ( digitized version of volume 1 )
  • The Nicolai Church in Mölln: How it became, how it was and how it is. Mölln: Altwart [around 1900]
  • The Möllner teaching conference: a look back at the first decade. Ratzeburg: Schetelig 1908
  • About cemetery art, otherwise and now. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1909
  • On the history of the New Testament canon. Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann 1922

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digitized version
  2. ↑ Quoted from Christian Nottmeier: Adolf von Harnack and German Politics 1890-1930: a biographical study on the relationship between Protestantism, science and politics. (Contributions to historical theology ISSN  0340-6741 124) Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2004 ISBN 9783161481543 , p. 93
  3. ↑ Walter Goebell: History of the Theological Faculty of the University of Kiel. Part 2: From the beginning of the Prussian era to the present. (History of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel 1665-1965 Volume 2/2) Neumünster: Wachholtz 1988, ISBN 3-529-027004-9 , p. 150
  4. ↑ ZDB -ID 549289-0
  5. ↑ His family was a supporter of the Augustenburger in the German-Danish War
  6. ↑ Bestmann (lit.), p. 38
  7. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Bestmann, Hugo Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bestmann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, university professor and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Delve
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1925
Place of death Mölln