Johann Wilhelm Ernst Summer

Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer (born March 31, 1881 in Stuttgart , † October 15, 1952 in Zurich ) was a German Methodist bishop .

Life

Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer was the son of the preacher Johann Jakob Sommer (1850–1925) and his English wife Zillah Elizabeth born. Barratt (1848-1935). Sommer's son was the future bishop Jakob Karl Ernst Sommer .

After a brief activity as a missionary in Armenia, Sommer worked from 1912 as a lecturer at the Uchtenhagen mission seminar of the Aid Association for Christian Love in the Orient in Falkenberg (Mark) and from 1920 as a teacher at the Methodist seminary in Frankfurt am Main . In 1936 he took over the management of the seminar. In 1946 he was elected to succeed Friedrich Heinrich Otto Melle as bishop of the Methodist Church , the predecessor of the Evangelical Methodist Church , in Germany. He represented his church in 1948 at the 1st General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam and at the World Council of Methodist Churches . He played a leading role in founding the Working Group on Christian Churches in Germany in 1947.

literature

Karl Heinz Voigt: Summer, Johann Wilhelm Ernst. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 778-785. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Wilhelm Ernst Sommer in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Summer, Johann Wilhelm Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Evangelical Methodist Bishop
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	October 15, 1952
Place of death	Zurich