John Ezekiel

Johannes Karl Friedrich Hesekiel (born May 31, 1835 in Altenburg , † July 21, 1918 in Wernigerode ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Ezekiel was born as the son of General Superintendent Friedrich Ezekiel . He first attended grammar school in Altenburg before studying Protestant theology in Jena and Erlangen from 1856 onwards . During his studies in Jena he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the Burgkeller in the winter semester of 1856/57 . After a cure in Alexandersbad , he continued his studies in Leipzig , but soon returned to Erlangen because Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank , his teacher from Altenburg, had started a job there.

In 1860 he passed his first theological examination in Altenburg and then got a job as a preacher of the Rhenish-Westphalian Federal youth in Ronsdorf in Barmen and as Synodalagent for local tasks in the Inner Mission Elberfeld .

After he had passed his second theological exam in Altenburg in 1861, he was appointed prison preacher in Elberfeld . The appointment to a parish office in the Altenburg region, requested by Ezekiel, did not materialize because of too many applicants. Ezekiel, who had been engaged for several years, therefore acquired the ability to work in the Uniate Evangelical Church in Prussia through a colloquium at the Koblenz Consistory .

In 1863 Ezekiel was asked by the Central Committee of the Inner Mission to serve as a travel preacher. Ezekiel followed suit and in 1863 went to Berlin to work with Johann Hinrich Wicherns . For five years Ezekiel was traveling as a travel preacher in central and southern Germany until he was appointed pastor at the St. Ambrosius Church in Magdeburg-Sudenburg in 1868 . A new church for the community was built here between 1875 and 1877 as a result of his significant work. Ezekiel was one of the founders of the Deaconess Mother House Cecilienstift in Halberstadt and the Saxon Society for the Care of Released Prisoners. In 1869 he founded the Conference of Theological Professional Workers of the Inner Mission.

The theological faculty of the University of Halle awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1883.

In succession to Wolfgang Friedrich Geß , Ezekiel was general superintendent in Posen from 1886 to 1910 and senior pastor of the Posen Paulikirche. His successor as General Superintendent of the Prussian Uniate Church Province of Posen was Paul Blau in 1911 .

Ezekiel, who belonged to the Prussian manor house from 1913 , was also provost of the monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe , canon of Zeitz , real secret senior consistorial councilor and finally honorary chairman of the Central Committee of the Inner Mission.

Ezekiel spent his last years in Wernigerode.

In his honor in 1890, the city ​​of Magdeburg named a street near the Ambrosius Church as ( Hesekielstraße ) in his honor .

Fonts

• Biblical indication of concern for one's own soul . 1913
• Elisabeth Ezekiel (Ed.): Memories from my life . 1920
• Hubert Olbrich (Ed.): Social report by Johann Hesekiel 1866 about the migrant workers in beet cultivation and in the sugar factories in the province of Saxony . 1982, ISBN 3-7983-0804-7

literature

• Dietrich Hüllmann: Ezekiel, Johannes Karl Friedrich. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 82.

predecessor	Office	successor
Wolfgang Friedrich Geß	General superintendent of the ecclesiastical province of Posen of the Evangelical Church of the older provinces of Prussia 1886 - 1910	Paul Blue