Karl Bernhard Moll

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Carl Bernhard Moll (born November 20, 1806 in Wolgast , † August 17, 1878 in Königsberg ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Moll, the only son of a painter, attended grammar school in Stettin and studied from 1825 to 1828 at the University of Greifswald and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . His teachers in Berlin included Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Schleiermacher . After a short period as a private tutor, he became a preacher at the Naugard penal institution in 1830 . In 1834 he took over the pastor's office in the village of Löcknitz and in 1845 was promoted to the first pastor at the St. Peter and Paul Church in Stettin. For his mediating advocacy during the March Revolution in 1848 he was awarded by the Prussian KingFriedrich Wilhelm IV was awarded the Hohenzollern House Order.

Because Moll had written some scientific treatises during the pastor's office, he was appointed full professor of theology at the United Friedrichs University in Halle-Wittenberg in 1850 and received his doctorate in theology. In addition to the professorship, he also took over the post of pastor at the St. Ulrich Church in 1853 and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1857/58 .

After he had rejected an appointment as general superintendent of the old Prussian ecclesiastical province of Saxony , in 1860 he accepted the appointment to general superintendent of the ecclesiastical province of Prussia with his residence in Königsberg. On the occasion of King Wilhelm's coronation on October 18, 1861 in the castle church in Königsberg , he was appointed senior court preacher. He administered his office as general superintendent of the largest province of the monarchy for 18 years.

Act

Moll's first publication was The Improvement of Prisoners (1841) , which grew out of his experiences as a prison preacher . His pamphlets against Pastor Julius Nagel , who later became the Pomeranian leader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Prussia , with whom he stood up for the Prussian Union , made him even better known . For several years he published a church paper for the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania, in which he published larger, partly dogmatic treatises, including on the distinction and connection between the divine and the human in scripture and church teaching, a contribution to the doctrine of inspiration , the history of the development of the Christian faith and its main turns , The present situation of the Protestant Church in Prussia and the task arising therefrom , Kirchliche Rundschau , Aug. Henry Layard: Niniveh and his remains . His system of practical theology outlined in the Grundrisse (1853) was translated into Dutch . His last major works were the explanations of the Letter to the Hebrews (1861) and the Psalter (1869) in the theological-homiletic biblical work by Johann Peter Lange , the first of which was published in three editions and was translated into English. He also published a large number of theological treatises and reviews in the yearbooks for scientific criticism and in the New Evangelical Church newspaper . As a collaborator on the Evangelical Calendar published by Ferdinand Piper , he wrote articles about the Transfiguration of Christ , the Apostle Philip , Bishop Basil the Great and Johann Wessel . One dogmatics remained unfinished.

Fonts (selection)

  • Contribution to the development of the conception of the time about the Union, the Unirte Church, its characteristics, principle and doctrinal concept, as well as about the scope and validity of the symbolic writings, as a response to the missive of Pastor Nagel zu Trieglaff . Eduard Köhler, Pasewalk 1843
  • The present need of the Protestant Church in Prussia, its causes and the means to remedy it, illuminates . Eduard Köhler, Pasewalk 1843 digitized
  • The position of the Protestant Christian to the association of the Gustav Adolf Foundation in its struggle. Sermon . Szczecin 1846
  • The system of practical theology is shown in outline . Publishing house by Richard Mühlmann , Halle 1853 digitized
  • The letter to the Hebrews. Theological-homiletic edited . Velhagen and Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1861 digitized
  • Hymnarium. Flowers of Latin church poetry for edification. With a foreword by Carl Bernhard Moll . H. Petersen, Halle 1861 digitized
  • The psalter. Carl Bernhard Moll worked on the theological and homiletic work. First half . Velhagen and Klasing, Bielefeld and Leipzig 1869 digitized
  • The social question in its religious-historical significance. Lecture on the best of the City Association for Inner Mission zu Königsberg in Prussia held on January 25, 1872 . Gräfe & Unzer, Königsberg 1872

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predecessor Office successor
Ernst Sartorius General Superintendent of the Old Prussian Church Province of Prussia
1860 - 1878 		Gustav Carus
personal data
SURNAME Moll, Karl Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minor, Carl Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolgast
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1878
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)