Karl Heinrich Theodor Woltersdorf

Theodor Woltersdorf

Karl Heinrich Theodor Woltersdorf (born December 22, 1834 in Berlin ; † October 3, 1904 in Weimar ) was a German theologian and church historian.

Theodor Woltersorf was the youngest son of the Berlin pharmacist Ernst Ludwig Woltersdorf (1794–1873) and his wife Auguste Albertine Schrader (1798–1881). After studying mechanical engineering in Sudenburg for four years , he graduated from high school in Merseburg and then studied theology in Halle , Tübingen and Jena . He passed his two theological exams in Königsberg in 1859 and 1861 .

Woltersdorf was pastor at St. Nikolai Cathedral in Greifswald from 1866 to 1899 . He was a representative of liberal theology and joined the Protestant Association . Because of this attitude, his appointment as city superintendent was not approved by the Berlin upper church council .

Woltersdorf spent his retirement in Arnstadt in Thuringia.

Woltersdorf was married to Anna Rosalie Pabst (1832–1913). The son Ernst Gerhard (1866–1899) was a doctor in Greifswald and married to Frieda Caroline Emma Susemihl (1873–1925).

Fonts

• The church. Lecture given at the Berlin Union Association on March 7, 1873 . Berlin 1873
• The Prussian Basic Law and the Church. Studies and documents on the constitutional question of the Protestant regional church in Prussia . Berlin 1873
• The legal relationships of the Greifswald parish churches in the Middle Ages . Greifswald 1888
• The preservation of the parish widows and daughters in the parishes and the call to preaching office in New Western Pomerania and Rügen due to marriage . In: German magazine for church law. Third episode, XI. Band, Tübingen and Leipzig 1902, pp. 177–246

literature

• Autobiography in the Memorabilia Book of St. Nikolai Greifswald, pp. 37–39

Web links

• Literature about Karl Heinrich Theodor Woltersdorf in the state bibliography MV
• List of pastors in St. Nikolai Cathedral