Johann Georg Fetzer

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Johann Georg Fetzer
The Fetzer couple with their daughter
Title page of Pastoral Theology by Fetzer, 1908

Johann Georg Fetzer (* July 12, 1845 in Oberhausen ; † July 31, 1909 in Volmarstein ) was a Baptist clergyman and teacher at the Baptist seminary in Hamburg. He published a textbook for the subject pastoral theology he taught . He also published in Baptist magazines. A special concern of his was the work for children and young people as well as the connection between North American and German Baptists.

Life

Johann Fetzer came from a Swabian family of emigrants who settled in Cleveland , North America, in 1857 .

In 1870 Fetzer enrolled at the Baptist Rochester Theological Seminary , where he was a student of the then well-known American theologian Augustus Hopkins Strong and the German-American August Rauschenbusch . In 1876 he returned to Germany. Here he attended the University of Leipzig and studied with the Old Testament scholar Franz Delitzsch and the dogmatists Karl Friedrich August Kahnis and Christoph Ernst Luthardt . Contrary to his original intention to return to the United States , he stayed in Germany and in 1878 became a preacher in the Volmarstein-Grundschöttel Baptist congregation. Here he contributed significantly to the internal structure of the still young community. During his service there, he traveled to the USA in 1880/81 to raise funds for the new building of the Baptist seminary in Hamburg.

Shortly after his return, he was called to teach at the Hamburg seminary, where he primarily devoted himself to pastoral theology . His textbook appeared on this subject in 1908; It was a rare occurrence that a teacher at the seminar had his own textbook printed. In addition to his teaching activities, he was also active as a writer. He wrote numerous articles for the Messenger and the Truth Witness , two periodicals of the German Baptists. In addition, from 1881 to 1885 he published Wort und Werk , the organ of the Baptist Youth Union, and was also the editor of the Führer , a collection of materials for Sunday school workers , for over 14 years .

Fetzer also played a special role as secretary of the German-American mission committee , as chairman of the youth union (1904 to 1909) and as head of the free church Hamburg Sunday School Association , which he held from 1897 to 1909.

Johann Georg Fetzer was married in 1877 to Frida Fetzer (1855–1934), the eldest daughter of the Baptist clergyman August Rauschenbusch. He died during a visit to his former parish Volmarstein-Grundschöttel, in whose cemetery he is also buried.

Publications (selection)

  • Pastoral theology . Commission publisher JG Oncken successor, Kassel 1908

literature

  • Frank Fornaçon: Article Fetzer, Johann Georg , in: One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. 150 Years of Baptist Congregations in Germany (edited by Günter Balders), Wuppertal and Kassel 1985, ISBN 3-7893-7883-6 , p. 344f
  • Julius Janssen: Johann Georg Fetzer. A picture of life , in: Festschrift 50 years of the preacher seminar in Hamburg (published by the Bund deutscher Baptistgemeinden), Hamburg 1930
  • Article Johann Georg Fetzer , in: weekly magazine Die Gemeinde , No. 30/1959

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Fornaçon: Article Fetzer, Johann Georg , in: A Lord, a Faith, a Baptism. 150 Years of Baptist Congregations in Germany (edited by Günter Balders), Wuppertal and Kassel 1985, p. 344
  2. ↑ Article Augustus Hopkins Strong , in: Reformed Reader online ; accessed on October 2, 2010
  3. ↑ Thomas Hahn-Bruckart: International Scientific Relationships Free Church Theology , in: Transnational Dimension Scientific Theology (Eds. Claus Arnold, Johannes Wischmeyer), Göttingen 2013, ISBN 9783647101309 , p. 96
  4. ↑ Festival brochure of the Evangelical Free Church Community Volmarstein-Grundschöttel, p. 16  ( page no longer available , 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. ; accessed on October 2, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.xn--efg-grundschttel-xwb.de  
  5. ↑ Frank Fornaçon: Article Fetzer, Johann Gerhard , in: A Lord, a Faith, a Baptism. 150 Years of Baptist Congregations in Germany (edited by Günter Balders), Wuppertal and Kassel 1985, p. 344
  6. ↑ Frank Fornaçon: Article Fetzer, Johann Gerhard , in: A Lord, a Faith, a Baptism. 150 Years of Baptist Congregations in Germany (edited by Günter Balders), Wuppertal and Kassel 1985, p. 344f
  7. ^ Karl Heinz Voigt: Article Rohrbach, Hans , in: Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon , Volume XXVIII (2007), Sp. 1325-1334
  8. ↑ Frank Fornaçon: Article Fetzer, Frida , in: One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism. 150 Years of Baptist Congregations in Germany (edited by Günter Balders), Wuppertal and Kassel 1985, p. 344.
  9. ↑ Festival brochure of the Evangelical Free Church Community Volmarstein-Grundschöttel, p. 17  ( page no longer available , 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. ; accessed on October 2, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.xn--efg-grundschttel-xwb.de  
personal data
SURNAME Fetzer, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baptist theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1909
Place of death Volmarstein