Joseph Lehmann

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Joseph Lehmann

Joseph Lehmann (also Josef; born November 28, 1832 in Berlin ; † January 11, 1907 in Hamburg ) was a German Baptist theologian, writer and teacher at the German Baptist seminary .

Life

Joseph Lehmann was a son of Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann , who, along with Johann Gerhard Oncken and Julius Köbner, was one of the most important founding personalities of the German Baptist movement. At the age of fourteen Joseph Lehmann was baptized and became a member of the Berlin Baptist Congregation. After graduating from high school , he was the first German Baptist to study Protestant theology - first at the University of Berlin and then at Regent's Park College at the University of Oxford , where he spent four semesters studying the history and theology of Baptism.

In 1857 he returned to Germany and assisted Johann Gerhard Oncken in the translation and editing of sermons and essays by the English Baptist pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon . At the same time he took on part-time duties as a teacher at the mission school founded by Oncken. He then worked as a Baptist preacher in Lübeck and then from 1863 as a second pastor alongside his father in Berlin. In 1883 he returned to Hamburg and took over a chair for homiletics at the seminary of the German Baptists . He held this office for 24 years - until his death in 1907.

Works (selection)

Joseph Lehmann's History of the German Baptists (1896)
  • History of the German Baptists, Volume I, Hamburg 1896.
  • History of the German Baptists, Volume II, Cassel 1900.
  • The history of the Christian sermon, Kassel 1904.
  • Christ's congregation and federal foundations according to the Scriptures, Kassel 1921.

In addition to his work as a book author, Lehmann was also the editor and author of various Christian magazines. These included the mission sheet of baptized Christians, the messenger of Zion, and the messenger of help .

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Herrmann: Short biography. In: History of the German Baptists, Cassel 1922, p. 292 f.
  • Association of German Baptists (ed.): Zeitschrift Hilfsbote, Cassel 1907, pp. 9, 87.
  • Association of German Baptists (ed.): Zeitschrift Wort und Werk, Cassel 1913, pp. 130 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Joseph Lehmann 1883–1907 , website of the Elstal Theological University (THE), accessed on July 22, 2018.
  2. ↑ Joseph Lehmann: History of the German Baptists. 2., completely revised edition by FW Herrmann. Volume 2, Oncken, Cassel 1922, p. 292.
  3. ^ Journal of Truth Witnesses, 1905, pp. 20 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehmann, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Baptist theologian, writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1907
Place of death Hamburg