Karl Bähr

Karl Christian Wilhelm Felix Bähr (born June 25, 1801 in Heidelberg , † May 15, 1874 in Offenburg ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Bähr was the son of pastor Johannes Bähr (1767-1828) and Johannette Philippine Koch (1779-1829). His older brother was Johann Christian Felix Bähr . After studying philosophy and theology at the Universities of Heidelberg (1818-1821) and Berlin (1822) , he became a deacon in Pforzheim in 1824 . Five years later, in 1829, he was elected pastor in Eichstetten . In 1838 he received an honorary doctorate in theology, in the same year he also held the office of a ministerial councilor and a senior student councilor . He was the senior church councilor of the Evangelical Church in Baden from 1843 to 1861. Here he was particularly committed to reforming the order of worship. Because the restorative spirit of the new agenda of 1855 met resistance from the enlightened bourgeoisie, the upper church council was ousted by the new liberal government in 1860.

From March 1, 1861, Bähr stayed with his sons, who were pastors, in retirement . He was married to Auguste Louise Bohm (1808-1891).

Works (selection)

• The Church's Doctrine of the Death of Jesus in the First 3 Centuries (1832)
• Commentary on Pauli's letter to the Colossians (1833)
• The Solomonic Temple (1848)
• Protestant worship from the point of view of the congregation (1850)
• Establishment of a service order for the Evangelical-Protestant Church in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Submission of the Evangelical Upper Church Council to the General Synod (1855)
• The Baden Church Book in Relation to the Southwest German Church Orders (1859)

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Bähr, Karl Christian Wilhelm Felix. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 339.
• Heinrich Holtzmann :  Bähr, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 772.
• Hermann Erbacher:  Bähr, Karl Christian Wilhelm Felix. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 520 ( digitized version ).
• Literature by and about Karl Bähr in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ulrich Wüstenberg: Karl Bähr (1801–1874). A Baden trailblazer for the renewal and unity of the Protestant worship service. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-525-57193-3 ( publications on liturgy, hymnology and theological church music research 30), (also: Heidelberg, Univ., Diss., 1993).