Kostlin

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Köstlin is the name of an evangelical family of theologians and civil servants who are mainly resident in Württemberg and have produced a large number of important personalities in church and society. Likewise, members of this family played an important role in the fields of music , poetry, and the fine arts, particularly during the Romantic period .

Origin and development

The Köstlin family is of Swabian origin. The first documentary mentions can be found in the 15th century in the area of ​​the imperial city of Esslingen (Henslin Köstlin 1460, Peter Cöstlin 1495). In the 16th century, the brothers Cosmann met Köstlin (* 1563), Schultheiß in Mettingen, from whom the Mettinger line branches off, and Johannes (* 1565), Weingärtner, married to Ursula Knapp († 1593), who runs the Esslinger line reasoned. His son Cosmann (1592–1646), a trained shoemaker, served as an imperial sergeant in the Thirty Years' War and in 1643 became goalkeeper at Mettinger Tor in Esslingen. His only son, Cosmann (1641–1685), who was born during the war in Worms, was the first Köstlin to pursue a theological career and officiated as pastor in Degenfeld and Deizisau , most recently as a deacon in Esslingen. Of his two surviving sons, the elder, Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin (1675–1739), a surgeon and councilor in Esslingen, and the younger, Tobias Köstlin (1679–1725), like his father, also became pastor, most recently in Bönnigheim .

While the marriage of the surgeon Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin to a member of the Hegel family remained childless, Tobias Köstlin and his wife Christiana Dorothea nee. Hauff (1687–1733), a great-great-aunt of the poet Wilhelm Hauff , ten children, seven of whom died at a young age. Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin (1711–1790), Tobias Köstlin (1713–1761), ducal councilor, subordinate and cellar of Brackenheim , and Heinrich Köstlin (1718–1748), pastor of Rötenberg in the Black Forest, his son Friedrich (1747–1814 ) survived ) founded the Alpirsbach line as the city pastor . Both the Brackenheim and the Alpirsbach lines later became extinct in the male line. A son of Tobias from Brackenheim is the young but important professor of natural history at the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart , Karl Heinrich Köstlin .

The common ancestor of the personalities listed below and of all family members still living today is therefore the eldest son of the Bönnigheim city pastor, Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin , who was appointed superintendent (dean) in Heidenheim in 1747 and "Senior Ministerii" (head pastor) in Esslingen and published a new church hymn book in 1763.

Theologically, the Köstlin family was shaped by Pietism : in some cases close personal contacts existed with Philipp Jakob Spener , August Hermann Francke , Johann Albrecht Bengel and Friedrich Christoph Oetinger .

Villa Köstlin around 1900

The family is characterized by a strong inclination for art, especially for romantic poetry and song. The brothers Heinrich (1787–1859) and August Köstlin (1792–1873) belonged to the Swabian School of Poetry and were friends with Justinus Kerner , Karl Mayer , Ludwig Uhland , Gustav Schwab , Eduard Mörike and Nikolaus Lenau . About the song composer Josephine Köstlin geb. Relationships with musicians such as Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Clara and Robert Schumann developed for a long time . The daughter of the song composer, Maria Fellinger geb. Köstlin (1849–1925), belonged to the closer circle of friends around Johannes Brahms , of whom she created well-known portraits as a sculptor, painter and photographer. The cultural meeting point was the Villa Köstlin of the married couple Christian Reinhold and Josefine Köstlin at Rümelinstraße 27 in Tübingen, which has meanwhile been placed under monument protection. Today the Center for Islamic Theology is located there as an institution of the University of Tübingen . The entrepreneur Ulrich Köstlin is currently campaigning for the villa to be made available again for poetry readings and musical soirees in the spirit of his ancestors.

The Köstlin family coat of arms, which was already used by the first pastor, shows an upside-down "overturned" cupboard with ball feet (in other words, the name of "Kästl [e] in", Swabian "box" for cupboard), derived, yes the name is interpreted as an Alemannic shortened form of "Konstantin"), on the helmet the torso of a bearded man with pointed cap. The colors are unknown.

To this day, the majority of this old family of the educated middle class with more than 100 address book entries is mainly represented in Württemberg.

Important family members (sorted genealogically)

Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin - progenitor of all current family members; Graphic by Johann Jacob Haid
  1. Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin (1711–1790), dean in Heidenheim, “Senior Ministerii” (Oberpfarrer) of the imperial city of Esslingen, Scholarcha (“school department”) and marriage judge, ∞ Maria Sophia Köpke (1714–1791) from a Brandenburg theologian family (tombstone city ​​church St. . Dionys , southeast side aisle)
    1. Nathanael Köstlin (1744–1826), dean and (honorary) prelate in Bad Urach private tutor of Friedrich Hölderlins (1770–1843) and Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854), his nephew. Köstlin was ∞ Sibylle Friederike Cless (1751–1824)
      1. Nathanael Friedrich von Köstlin '(1776–1855), professor of practical theology in Tübingen as well as senior consistorial councilor and prelate of Tübingen (based in Stuttgart), .: I .: Heinrike Schnurrer (1788–1819) and II .: Henriette verw. Müller née Rapp (1792–1823), widow of the engraver Friedrich Müller (1782–1816)
        1. Christian Reinhold Köstlin (1813–1856), legal scholar , professor of criminal law in Tübingen, poet lawyer , ∞ Josephine Caroline Lang (1815–1880) song composer
          1. Heinrich Adolf Köstlin (1846–1907), professor of practical theology in Giessen as well as church musician , music writer and music philosopher , founding father of the “Evangelical Church Choir for Germany”, ∞ Sofie Gerok (1847–1930), daughter of Karl Gerok (1815–1890), Theologian and poet
            1. Therese Köstlin (1877–1964), poet and songwriter
      2. Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb von Köstlin (1785–1854), Protestant theologian and Ephorus of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Bad Urach (teacher of Eduard Mörike ), ∞ Johanne Luise Süskind (1796–1874) a daughter of the theologian Friedrich Gottlieb Süskind (1767–1829)
        1. Karl Reinhold von Köstlin (1819–1894), Protestant theologian, professor of aesthetics in Tübingen , literary historian , obtained the first historical-critical edition of Hölderlin's works, and was one of the first professional aesthetes to support Richard Wagner's music . In 1876 he prompted the Breitkopf & Härtel publishing house in the complete edition of Mozart's works to no longer write the composer's middle name "Amadé", but "Amadeus".
      3. Karl Heinrich Gotthilf von Köstlin (1787-1859), physician, senior medical officer in Stuttgart , reformer of clinical psychiatry in Württemberg (institutions Winnental and Zwiefalten ), member of the Swabian school of poets , ∞ Mathilde bew. Storr born Otto (1794-1835)
        1. Otto Köstlin (1818–1884), physician and professor of natural sciences at the Stuttgart high school (opponent of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution ), editor of the medical correspondence sheet of the Württemberg Medical Association , member of the Leopoldina Academy , ∞ Emilie Elben (1826–1903)
        2. Theodor Köstlin (1823–1900), lawyer , State Councilor, President of the Higher Regional Court in Stuttgart, singer (bass baritone), promoter of Stuttgart's musical life (conservatory, lieder hall, association for classical church music), 1876 to 1897 chairman of the central management of the Württemberg welfare associations, ∞ Mathilde Schelling ( 1831–1920), niece of the philosopher Friedrich Schelling
        3. Julius Köstlin (1826–1902), professor of theology in Göttingen , Breslau and Halle (Saale) , senior consistorial advisor, pioneer of historical Luther research, ∞ Pauline Schmid (1831–1913)
      4. August Friedrich von Köstlin (1792–1873), lawyer, state councilor, consistorial president in Stuttgart, co-organizer of the Württemberg railway system, director of the state art collections and the state art school, founding father of the Württemberg Art Association, ∞ Wilhelmine Mayer (1798–1867), sister of the poet lawyer Karl Mayer and the landscape painter Louis Mayer
        1. August Köstlin (1825–1894), bridge construction engineer, director of the forestry, industrial and mining company in Vienna and editor of the Wiener Allgemeine Bauzeitung , ∞ Therese Schurz (1830–1872), niece of the poet Nikolaus Lenau
          1. Theodor Köstlin (1855–1939), stage name “Theodor Brandt”, actor , director at the Burgtheater in Vienna , director of the theater in Weimar and Stuttgart, broadcaster , ∞ Helene Schüle (1860–1926), actress
            1. Karl Köstlin (1886–1971), Württemberg state actor, director and broadcaster, ∞ Emmy Sonnemann (1893–1973), actress who, after her divorce in 1926, entered into a second marriage with Hermann Göring (1893–1946) in 1935 .
        2. Karl von Köstlin (1827–1909), lawyer, director of the then ultra-modern cell prison in Heilbronn, pioneer of a humane prison system, initiator and director of the Heilbronner Kunstverein, ∞ Anna Scholl (1836–1922)
          1. Ludwig Köstlin (1859–1945), biscuit manufacturer in Bregenz and Győr (Raab), ∞ Julie Seelig (1863–1945)
          2. Reinhold Köstlin (1876–1967), actor, at the Schiller Theater in Berlin since 1899 , Berlin state actor , ∞ Charlotte Carnap (1890–1975)
    2. Friedrich Köstlin (1749–1828), parish priest in Esslingen, ∞ Magdalena Dorothea Caspart (1750–1803), granddaughter of the pietistic poet Magdalena Sibylla Rieger born. Weissensee (1707–1786)
      1. Ernst Gottlob Köstlin (1780–1824), Protestant theologian, poet, writer and mineralogist, professor at the Johanneum School of Scholars in Hamburg,, Doris Grabau (1786–1852)
        1. Heinrich Köstlin (1817–1896), classical philologist, private scholar in Hamburg, single
      2. Immanuel Ferdinand Köstlin (1781–1835), Protestant theologian, monastery helper (second pastor) at the collegiate church in Stuttgart, ∞ Caroline Johanne Friz (1785–1841)
        1. Theodor Friedrich Köstlin (1815–1876), theologian, rector of the Latin school in Nürtingen, most recently pastor of Oberderdingen , friend of Karl Gerok , whom he persuaded to publish the successful volume of poetry "Palm Blätter", collaborator on the first complete edition of Schelling's works, friend of Eduard Mörike (cf. the same “Auf die Nürtinger Schule” and “Domestic Scene”), ∞ Marie Steinbeis (1821–1893), niece of the poet Justinus Kerner , sister of Ferdinand von Steinbeis (1807–1893), promoter of trade and commerce
          1. Friedrich Köstlin (1845–1932), theologian, educational writer, city pastor and district school inspector in Langenau , dean in Blaufelden and Backnang , ∞ Emma Süskind (1849–1919)
            1. Reinhard Köstlin (1875–1957), lawyer, President of the Württemberg State Ministry, ∞ Anna Köstlin (1883–1961), granddaughter of Theodor Friedrich Köstlin from Nürtingen through her father Karl Justinus Köstlin (1853–1911)
  2. Tobias Köstlin (1713–1761), ducal councilor, subordinate and cellar of Brackenheim (genealogical line extinct)
    1. Karl Heinrich Köstlin (1755–1783), professor of natural history at the Hohen Karlsschule Stuttgart

Other well-known personalities

literature

  • Maria Köstlin: The book of the Köstlin family , Kohlhammer Verlag , Stuttgart, 1931
  • Biographical manual of the Württemberg regional synod (regional church convention) . Edited by Hermann Ehmer a. Hansjörg Kammerer, Stuttgart 2005, pp. 223–224 (portraits)
  • Max-Adolf Cramer ( arrangement ): Pfarrerbuch innerwürttembergischer Reichsstädte , Vol. 3, Stuttgart 1991, pp. 65–66
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: " I was born into this world through God's marriage blessing ...". Autobiographical record of Tobias Köstlin, ancestor of the Württemberg theologian and civil servant family Köstlin , in: Südwestdeutsche Blätter für Familien- und Wappenkunde 24 (2005), pp. 309–326 and in: Archive for Family History Research 9 (2005), pp. 188–201
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: From Sophie La Roche to Isolde Kurz. The Köstlin family and literature , in: Inge Dillenburger (Red.): Authors in the city and district of Ludwigsburg from 18. – 20. Century . Edited by the literary discussion group Ludwigsburg eV , Stuttgart 2007, pp. 56–62
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Prof. Dr. med. Karl Heinrich Köstlin (1755–1783). In memory of an important Brackenheimer , in: Zeitschrift des Zabergäuvereins 1997, Issue 1, pp. 8-16
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: " I would praise me blessed to have written this way." Heinrich Köstlin (1787–1859), a Swabian romantic. In: Schwabenspiegel. Literature from the Neckar to Lake Constance 1800–1950. Edited by Manfred Bosch , Ulrich Gaier, Wolfgang Rapp a. a., Biberach / Riß, vol. 2.2., p. 1155–1159 (cf. also the Köstlin biograms in vol. 1.2., pp. 86–89 and the catalogs of works, ibid., pp. 210–214).
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Professor of criminal law and poet - Reinhold Köstlin died 150 years ago , in: Schwäbische Heimat 2007, Issue 1, pp. 29–33
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: "You just have to bite through with force". The Tübingen aesthetician Karl Reinhold Köstlin (1819–1894). A biographical sketch , in: Building blocks for the history of the University of Tübingen . Edited by Volker Schäfer, Vol. 8, Tübingen 1997, pp. 49-74
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: The rediscoverer of Luther. Julius Kostlin. Pioneer of historical Luther research , in: Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg . Stuttgart Edition 102 (2007), No. 43 (October 28), p. 10
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Karl Gerok's best friend. Theodor Friedrich Köstlin made sure that the 'palm leaves' became famous , in: Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg . Stuttgart edition 103 (2008), No. 33 (August 17), p. 10
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: "The most envious, most willing friend". Theodor Friedrich Köstlin was rector of the Nürtingen Latin School and was in close contact with scientists and writers , in: Nürtinger Zeitung , June 26, 2010, p. 26
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: It wanders as quietly as a breath. Memory of the poet Therese Köstlin, in: Evangelisches Gemeindeblatt für Württemberg . Stuttgart edition 104 (2009), No. 11 (March 15), p. 12
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Gestrenger Senior. The Esslinger pastor Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin was born 300 years ago , in: Esslinger Zeitung , March 18, 2011, p. 25.
  • Stefan J. Dietrich: Professor of criminal law and poet. Christian Reinhold Köstlin was born yesterday 200 years ago , in: Schwäbisches Tagblatt , Tübingen, January 30, 2013, p. 24
  • Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy: The pastor family Köstlin: Professional success through family discipline and marriage strategy. In: This: "Sparta et Martha". Parish office and marriage in the life planning of Hölderlin and in his environment , Ostfildern (Thorbecke) 2011, pp. 34–83, 377–379 (portraits)
  • Tilman Krause: Wilhelmine Köstlin (1798–1867) - the life of a lady of the Stuttgart society around 1850, reconstructed from the diaries of her great-great-great-grandson , in: Archive for Family History Research 8 (2004), pp. 178–196
  • Tilman Krause: Lawyer and director of the Heilbronn cell prison. Karl von Köstlin (1827–1909) , in: Heilbronner Köpfe V. Life pictures from five centuries , Heilbronn 2009, pp. 71–88
  • Tilman Krause: Actor with body and soul. Reinhold Köstlin (1876–1967) , in: Heilbronner Köpf VI. Life pictures from two centuries , Heilbronn 2011, pp. 33–54
  • Genealogical documents Archive Hans-Thorald Michaelis
  • (Editor):  Köstlin (Württemberg family). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 407 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Egbert Ritter von Hoyer:  Köstlin, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 342 f.
  • Julius Köstlin:  Köstlin, August (lawyer) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 756 f.
  • Richard Hoche:  Köstlin, Ernst Gottlob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 757.
  • Julius Köstlin:  Köstlin, Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 757 f.
  • Julius Köstlin, Melchior Josef Bandorf :  Köstlin, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 758 f.
  • Heinrich Adolf Köstlin:  Köstlin, Josephine . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, pp. 345-350.
  • Eugen Schneider :  Köstlin, Karl von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 343 f.
  • Julius Köstlin:  Köstlin, Nathanael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 759.
  • Kurt Lampert:  Köstlin, Otto . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 344 f.
  • Karl August Klüpfel:  Köstlin, Reinhold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 759-761.

Web link

Commons : Köstlin family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A detailed portrait of Tobias Köstlin in the Heilbronner Nachrichten of August 6, 2005 on Stimme.de
  2. ↑ Kai Torsten Kanz: What a wonderful country, a true paradise. The research trip of Carl Heinrich Köstlin (1755–1783) in: Italy in the context of German-Italian scientific relations of the late 18th century in: Negotiations for the history and theory of biology , Vol. 11, German Society for the History and Theory of Biologists, 2003
  3. ↑ Detailed portrait of Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin in the Esslinger Zeitung from March 18, 2011
  4. ^ Stefan J. Dietrich: From Rulaman to Beate Uhse. The family relationships of the former pastor Cosmann Friedrich Köstlin in Essling go far , in: Esslinger Zeitung 2003, No. 194 (23/24 August), p. 25
  5. ↑ Cosmann Friederich Köstlin (ed.): Church hymn book, understanding four hundred songs as old as new / which with added confessional and communion devotions, also gospels, evening lessons and the history of the Passion , Eßlingen (Hoffmann) 1763, 2nd edition 1775
  6. ^ Sermon on the occasion of a letter from Hölderlin to Köstlin
  7. ^ Lyrics (selection) by Therese Köstlin
  8. ↑ Life sketches of Wilhelmine Köstlin
  9. ↑ Stuttgart Memorial Day Calendar