Karl Ernst (General Superintendent)

Karl Christian Ludwig Ernst (born September 27, 1834 in Drommershausen (today a district of Weilburg ), † November 21, 1902 in Boppard ) was a German Protestant theologian. From 1882 to 1897 he was General Superintendent of the Evangelical Church in Nassau .

Life

Ernst, the son of a teacher, studied Protestant theology from 1853 at the Philipps University in Marburg and in Halle . In Marburg he joined in 1853 of Progress - fraternity Germania on, in Halle, he was in the winter term 1854/55 Conkneipant the compound and later fraternity Alemannia on the plow. In 1855 he attended the seminary in Herborn and in 1857 became vicar in Nastätten . He received his first pastor's position in Herborn in 1861, where he also taught at the seminary. In 1863 he became a pastor in Barmen-Gemarke . From 1870 he was back in Herborn, first as dean , from 1879 as director of the seminary. In 1882 he became general superintendent of the Wiesbaden consistorial district, to which the Nassau regional church had been expanded in 1867. In 1897 he retired and moved to Boppard. Heinrich Maurer was his successor .

Ernst, who had founded an "Association for the Care of Christian Community Life" as early as 1863, was close to the community movement , which had its focus in northern Nassau. As a general superintendent, he tried to build a bridge between her and the more popular church-shaped south. The national hymn book from 1894 testifies to this in particular.

literature

• Otto Renkhoff : Nassau biography. Wiesbaden ² 1992, p. 178.
• Karl Dienst : Miniatures of a Nassau church history (= Journal of religious culture No. 165). Frankfurt am Main 2012, p. 198 ( online resource ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst August Gries: The student union (Burschenschaft) Germania Marburg 1851-1859. Edited by Harald Lönnecker . Koblenz 2013, p. 6.