Johannes Warneck

Johannes Warneck (born March 4, 1867 in Dommitzsch , † September 1, 1944 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a German Protestant theologian, missionary, preacher and translator. He made a particular contribution to researching the Batak religion .

Life

Johannes Warneck is a son of the German Protestant theologian and founder of the systematic Protestant missiology Gustav Warneck (1834-1910). He studied theology in Leipzig, Greifswald and Halle and was active in Wingolf at all three study locations . 1892–1906 he was active in the missionary service with the Batak in Sumatra , where he was primarily concerned with the education and training of local teachers and preachers. In 1908 he became mission inspector in Barmen , in 1912 first lecturer in mission in Bethel and in 1920 took over the office of Ephorus of the Batak Church. From 1932 to 1937 he was director of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft in Barmen. In 1925 he married the pastor's daughter Hanna Quistorp .

Fonts

• The Life Forces of the Gospel: Missionary Experiences within Animistic Paganism . Warneck, Berlin 1908
• The Batak religion. A Paradigm for the Animistic Religions of the Indian Archipelago . Dieterich, Leipzig 1909 (= religious documents of the peoples , section IV, volume 1)
• D. Gustav Warneck: 1834-1910; Sheets of Remembrance , Berlin 1911
• [Fifty] 50 years of Batakmission in Sumatra . Berlin 1911, 2nd edition 1912
• The Life Forces of the Gospel: Missionary Experiences within Animistic Paganism . M. Warneck, Berlin 1913
• Paul in the light of today's mission to the Gentiles . Martin Warneck, Berlin 1914
• World war and world mission . Godesberg 1915
• Human power and the power of God: War experiences of the German mission . Berlin 1916
• D. Ludwig J. Nommensen: a picture of life . Barmen; Verl. D. Rhine. Mission house 1919
• Sixty years of Batak mission in Sumatra. Published by Martin Warneck, Berlin 1925.
• Cast out your nets. Memories . Verlag Martin Warneck, Berlin 1938 The excerpt from Ausreise ins Batakland was published with a short biography in: Von Grönland bis Lambarene. Travel descriptions by Christian missionaries from three centuries. Edited by John Paul . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin 1952 (pages 129-141) = Kreuz-Verlag Stuttgart 1958 (pages 127-139).
• Sumatran chats . Warneck, Berlin 1939

literature

• Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949 . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006, p. 268.
• Paul Gerhard Aring :  Warneck, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 371-372.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Warneck in the catalog of the German National Library