Julius Diedrich

Franz Wilhelm Julius Diedrich (born July 15, 1819 in Stettin , † March 9, 1890 in Strasbourg ) was a Lutheran theologian and pastor .

Life

As a child, Diedrich proved to be musically gifted. As a six-year-old he was able to perform at public concerts. He attended grammar school in Szczecin and began studying theology and philology in Berlin in 1837 after graduating from high school . He later moved to Bonn and completed his studies in 1840. After his studies he was assistant preacher with Johannes Evangelista Goßner at the Bethlehem Church in Berlin until he was ordained in 1845 . After his time as assistant preacher, he became a pastor in Zaatzke . In 1847 Diedrich, who was a denominational Lutheran, was no longer able to remain a pastor in the Uniate Evangelical Church of Prussia in good conscience , joined the Old Lutheran Church and became a pastor in Jabel . He stayed here until 1874. At the beginning of the 1860s, a conflict arose between some pastors and the Oberkirchencollegium (OKC), the church leadership in Wroclaw, over whether the church leadership was and would act according to divine ( iure divino ) or human law ( iure humano ) . Alongside Ludwig Otto Ehlers, Julius Diedrich was one of the leaders of the pastors' group, who believed that the church leadership was based only on human rights. This conflict led Diedrich to break away from the OKC in 1861 and to establish the Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Synod with other pastors and congregations in 1864 , which only reunited with the Old Lutheran Church in 1904. In 1874 Diedrich moved to Frankfurt am Main , where he was pastor of the Immanuel parish until 1883. His last pastor was in Strasbourg from 1883 to 1890.

Fonts (selection)

• The prophet Isaiah. Briefly explained for attentive Bible readers , Leipzig 1859.
• The Gospel of St. John. Briefly explained for attentive Bible readers eager for salvation , Leipzig 1859.
• Epistle sermons for the whole church year. For beneficial use in houses and churches of the Evangelical Lutheran creed , Leipzig 1860.
• Sermons on the seven words of Jesus on the cross , Neu-Ruppin 1863.
• The Solomonic Writings (Proverbs, Preachers, and Song of Songs). Briefly designed for attentive Bible readers eager for salvation , Neu-Ruppin 1865.
• The Revelation of St. John's. Briefly designed for attentive Bible readers eager for salvation , Neu-Ruppin 1865.
• Christian Doctrine in Reflections on Luther's Little Catechism , Erlangen ² 1872.
• Church postil in sermons about the Sunday and feast day gospels of the whole year , 2 volumes, Nuremberg 1872/1873.

literature

• Werner Klän : The Evangelical-Lutheran Immanuel Synod in Prussia. A church formation in the wake of the ecclesiological disputes in German Lutheranism of the 19th century , Frankfurt / Bern / New York 1985.

Web links

• Diedrich, Julius in the Vegelahn Bible Archive
• Diedrich, Franz Wilhelm Julius in the list of Lutheran pastors before 1945