Johannes Spanuth

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Johannes Spanuth (born July 30, 1874 in Schladen , † April 24, 1950 in Hanover ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Spanuth studied theology and in 1900 was first rector in the public school service. After his ordination on February 16, 1903, he went to South Africa as pastor of the German congregations in Berlin, Potsdam and Macleantown . In 1911 he returned to Germany and became a pastor in Hemelingen , and in 1907 in Hittfeld . In 1921 he was appointed superintendent . In 1929 he became superintendent in Burgwedel . On October 1, 1946, he retired. Spanuth was connected to the German communities in South Africa through his activities there and published several writings on it. His estate is in the regional church archive in Hanover.

Spanuth was temporarily chairman of the Hanover parish association.

Works

  • Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the German settlement in Kaffraria: July 7, 1858 - July 7, 1908 . Berlin, South Africa 1908
  • Our German Lutheran congregations in South Africa . Hanover around 1912
  • British Kaffraria and its German settlements (= The settlement of Europeans in the tropics. Part 4). 1914
  • The Hannoversche Landeskirche and the German Evangelical-Lutheran Synod of South Africa . Around 1933
  • German Church Life in South Africa. From the diaspora work of the Hanoverian regional church . Leipzig 1933

literature

  • Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover 12/1950, p. 54

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.landeskirchlichesarchiv-hannover.de/bestaende/nachlaesse
  2. ^ Salfeld: Burgwedel , in: Philipp Meyer: The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . Volume 1, Göttingen 1941, p. 153.
personal data
SURNAME Spanuth, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Schladen
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1950
Place of death Hanover