Karl Brinkel

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Karl Brinkel (born February 20, 1913 in Lauban , † February 13, 1965 in Zella-Mehlis ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , pastor , university professor for catechetics and practical theology .

Career

Brinkel received his Abitur in 1932 in Görlitz . He then studied Protestant theology in Breslau from 1932 to 1936 and was then accepted into the vicariate of the Silesian Church . During this time he was the chief editor of the Evangelical Press Association of Silesia. Brinkel was ordained pastor in 1939 in Breslau. In 1941 he was appointed parish priest in Hirschberg / Silesia. After the liberation from the Nazi tyranny in 1945, he briefly became pastor in the community of Ellerode near Witzenhausen before moving to Thuringia , where he was pastor in Schmölln until 1947 .

That year, the regional church council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia appointed him lecturer at the Bible school in Altenburg and at the same time rector of the Eisenach catechetical seminar. As a result of his ongoing training, he was appointed rector of the preachers' seminary and pastoral college in Eisenach in 1954 . In 1956, he put his dissertation to a practical-theological topic and became a doctor of theology doctorate . For Churches 1963. Thuringian Church appointed him a year later he was appointed as professor of practical theology in Rostock . He only had two years left until he died of appendicitis at the age of 52 . He was buried on February 19 in the main cemetery in Eisenach.

Brinkel was a member of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK) and participant in the first two All-Christian Peace Assemblies , which took place in Prague in 1961 and 1964, respectively.

His most important concern was to bring the biblical message closer to the children and adolescents in Lutheran knowledge and influence. He was also a sponsor of the Evangelical Academy , because he saw an advantage in the encounter between theology and other scientific disciplines for the contemporary proclamation of the Gospel .

Fonts

  • Johann Neunherz. A Silesian pastor's life , Görlitz: Strong, 1937
  • Where there is no longer any sense. The problem of life in Manfred Hausmann's poetry , Berlin 1953
  • Poetry and the Word of God. Small reflections , Berlin 1956
  • Luther's doctrine of Fides Infantium (i.e. child belief) in child baptism , Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1958
  • Luther's hermeneutics in his translation of the Old Testament and the current revision of the Luther Bible (= Lutheranism , No. 12), Berlin 1960
  • May I be his own A faith aid for parents and schools according to Luther's Great and Small Catechism , with collaborators. by Karl Brinkel, ed. by Walter Grundmann , Stuttgart: Klotz 1963
  • You belong to god Handbook for catechism instruction according to Martin Luther's Small Catechism , with collaborators. by Karl Brinkel, ed. by Walter Grundmann, Berlin: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 24. u. 5th main part, didactic part of the office of the keys and of the confession, 1961
  • as arrangement and ed. with Herbert von Hintzenstern : Luther's friends and students in Thuringia . Gift of the Thuringian Church to the Thuringian people , vol. 1: The Lord's name stand by us . Dedicated to Regional Bishop D. Mitzenheim on his 70th birthday , Berlin 1961; Vol. 2: Oh, Lord God, how richly you comfort . Dedicated to the chairman of the Society for Thuringian Church History, Prof. D. Hanna Jursch, on her 60th birthday , Berlin 1962

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church councilor Karl Brinkel died (obituary) . In: Eisenacher Current Newspaper . February 24, 1965.
  2. ↑ Glaube und Heimat 2, 1947, No. 36, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Brinkel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauban / Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1965
Place of death Zella Mehlis