Julius Burgrave

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Carl Julius Burggraf (born August 31, 1853 in Berlin , † October 15, 1912 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant pastor and literary scholar .

life and work

Burggraf, a son of the painter Carl Burggraf (1801–1857), first studied history and philology, then Protestant theology in Berlin. He then became vicar in Heidelsheim in 1877 . In 1879 he took over a pastorate in Langenhain in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha . In 1883 he became pastor at the Ansgarii Church in Bremen, since 1907 as pastor primarius. There he was an active member of the German Protestant Association , but resigned in 1906.

While other representatives of Bremen's church liberalism such as Albert Kalthoff and Friedrich Steudel radicalized and switched from Christianity to monism , Burggraf, following Paul de Lagarde and Arthur Bonus , tried to win back German-national Christians, who increasingly turned away from church attendance, through the skillful pastoral use of Christian themes from classical German literature . He reminded of the Christian roots of this very culture. The “classics” like Goethe and Schiller , even if they were not specifically committed to religion during their lifetime, should “speak in the context of church celebrations and rituals”. Burggraf summed up his approach with the statement: "Luther and Schiller - two so different natures, are one single thought in the plan of Providence."

Burggraf was the father of Georg Burggraf (1887–1915), who died as a war volunteer as a theology student in World War I, and of Waldfried Burggraf, who became known as a prominent theater man of the Third Reich under the pseudonym Friedrich Forster . Through the spiritual and literary activity of the pastor's younger son had "come to the blood of the theater devil," as the author of the frequently played Hitler -Stück All against one, one for all wrote the 1938th

Publications (selection)

  • The great days of the Reformation (Barmen 1 around 1885, 2 1887, 3 2018).
  • Schiller's female figures (Stuttgart 1 1897, 2 1900).
  • Schiller Sermons (without year) Reprint ISBN 978-1-140-35686-8 .
  • The Christ tendency in Schiller's nature (Gießen [1909]) Reprint ISBN 978-3-111-17719-9 .
  • Goethe Sermons (without year) Reprint ISBN 978-0-282-18699-9 .
  • Pamphlet against radicalism in Bremen: “What now?” (Gießen 1906).

Editing

  • Editor of the Bremen contributions to the expansion and renovation of the church , from 1909 yearbook for German Christianity .

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present, vol. 1. 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, p. 388 f ( digitized version ).
  • Justus H. Ulbricht: German poet sermons. Search for meaning around 1900 or: On inventing the middle , in: In the heart of Europe (Cologne 2008), pp. 183–218. ISBN 978-3-412-20094-7
  • German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, Col. 633 f.
  • Burgrave, Julius . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 2 : Brann-Einslin . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2005, ISBN 3-11-094656-4 , p. 228 ( books.google.de - limited preview).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gangolf Hübinger : Cultural Protestantism and Politics. On the relationship between liberalism and Protestantism in Wilhelmine Germany. Mohr, Tübingen 1994, ISBN 3-16-146139-8 , p. 127
  2. ^ Justus Ulbricht: German poet sermons , p. 205.
  3. ↑ From: Schiller Sermons, quoted in Ulbricht, Deutsche Dichterpredigte , p. 206.
  4. ^ Friedrich Forster, Little Biography , in: Stadttheater Salzburg, (season 1938/1939), Issue 1, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Burgrave, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burggraf, Carl Julius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1912
Place of death Bremen