Karl Biernatzki

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Karl Leonhard Biernatzki (born December 28, 1815 in Altona ; † January 23, 1899 there ) was a German founder and writer .

Life and work in diakonia

Karl Biernatzki attended the Christianeum and the Johanneum School of Academics in Hamburg . He then successfully studied theology at the University of Erlangen and the University of Kiel . He then worked from 1841 as rector in Friedrichstadt . In 1852 he moved to Kassel , where he worked as secretary of the Central Association for Chinese Missions. Three years later, he moved to Berlin as General Secretary of the Central Committee for the Inner Mission , where he worked closely with Johann Hinrich Wichern . During this time he went on lecture tours and published on the work of the Inner Mission . His work as secretary ended in 1859 due to financial founders. Biernatzki then worked until 1895 as a pastor at the main church in Altona .

In December 1867, Biernatzki was one of the founding members of the Altona Diakonissenanstalt, which was based on the model of the Diakonissenanstalt Kaiserswerth and offered young women appropriate training. During the preparations, the theologian used the previous activities of a women's association founded by Emma Poel . In the early years, the facility trained nurses in particular and expanded the facilities for nursing. The offers were aimed primarily at their own community members, but also helped in hospitals in Altona and with the outbreak of smallpox in 1871. Both the forms of organization and the buildings had to be expanded quickly. In 1872, Theodor Schäfer took over the post of rector created by Biernatzki and the board of directors. Biernatzki himself resigned the honorary chairmanship of the sponsoring association due to irreconcilable differences with Schäfer a year later.

In addition to his commitment to the Diakonissenanstalt, Biernatzki did other social work in his Altona community. In 1870 he founded a parish nursing station in which a deaconess worked alongside his wife Charlotte. The facility looked after the sick in their homes and provided the hungry with warm meals and clothing. A development association took over its sponsorship in 1881, later the Diakonissenanstalt in Altona. In 1897 Bienatzki bequeathed his private house, in which a “darning and patching school for school-age girls” for 80 girls had been built since 1881, to his parish. In order to relieve working mothers, the theologian founded a day care center in 1890 that offered space for 40 small children. There was also a dormitory for 18 older, single women.

Since 1950 the Biernatzkistraße in Altona reminds of Karl and Charlotte Biernatzki. Johannes Biernatzki was her son.

Act as a writer

In addition to his work in diakonia, Biernatzki was also known as a writer. During his time as General Secretary, he wrote on Internal Mission issues. From 1844 to 1851 he published the Volksbuch for Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg , in which, for example, contributions by Theodor Storm could be read. Biernatzki himself wrote many articles on history and cultural history and on ethnography. The University of Jena awarded him an honorary doctorate in philosophy in 1854.

family

Biernatzkis wife (born August 23, 1820 in Faaborg ) was the daughter of a sailmaker. As a children's book author she wrote under the pseudonym "CJ". The couple married on August 13, 1845 in Faaborg. The marriage produced five daughters and four sons. This included the printer and publisher Karl Friedrich Constantin (* December 28, 1853; † May 3, 1898), the journalist Wilhelm Biernatzki and Johannes Biernatzki .

A brother of Biernatzki was Hermann Biernatzki , a half-brother Johann Christoph Biernatzki .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Moeller, Bruno Jahn (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia of Theology and the Churches (DBETh). Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-11666-7 , Vol. 1: A - L , pp. 137-138.
  2. ↑ Gerd Eversberg: Biernatzki, Karl Leonhard in: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 10 (1994), p. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Biernatzki, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Biernatzki, Karl Leonhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German founder and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1899
Place of death Altona