Karl Kindt

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Karl Kindt (born February 21, 1901 in Rostock , † beginning of April 1959 ) was a German philosopher, Protestant theologian and educator.

life and work

After graduating from high school in 1920, Kindt studied Protestant theology , philosophy and German in Rostock , Berlin and Leipzig . In 1920 he joined the Rostock and in 1921 the Berlin Wingolf . In 1924 he was charged with a philological work Goethe doctorate . In 1926 and 1928 he passed the first and second service exams for teaching at grammar schools . At a grammar school in Schwerin he worked as a teacher until 1940.

From October 1941 on, Kindt was a Wehrmacht soldier on the Eastern Front with the rank of corporal. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets, where he was active in pastoral work for fellow prisoners. This service was forbidden to him under Polish rule. Under extreme conditions he had in Bytom in opencast working a coal mine. Kindt was able to return home in early 1946.

After his return, Kindt held catechetical courses on behalf of the Mecklenburg Church . In 1954 he was appointed head of the Pedagogical Institute (today: Pedagogical University) in Heidelberg . In addition, he held teaching positions at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg from 1948 to 1952 , first on the border areas between philosophy and theology, then for the subject of modern theology and intellectual history . Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz formed a focus of his intellectual history research .

Kindt had been married since 1928. The marriage remained childless. In 1959, Kindt died of a heart attack.

author

Karl Kindt wrote several books, including Klopstock , the first edition of which was published in 1941 by the Wichern Verlag in Berlin. Pastor Hans Dannenbaum had lent this book to Dietrich Bonhoeffer to read in a cell in Berlin-Tegel.

In 1947 Kindt presented a German translation of Leibniz's essay "Causa Dei Asserta per Iustitiam Eius" [Defense of God's case based on his justice] (Amsterdam 1710) with an introduction and explanations (Plea for God's God. GW Leibniz "Causa Dei", newly translated, introduced and explained, Berlin-Spandau: Wichern-Verlag Herbert Renner KG, 1947).

Other fonts (selection)

  • Law of chance . Berlin 1933.
  • Spiritual battle for Christ. Wake-up calls to the German conscience . Berlin 1938.
  • The maid. A biblical novella . Berlin 1947.
  • The player of God. Shakespeare's Hamlet as Christian world theater . Berlin 1949.
  • God's walk through history . Look into God's historical powers based on the Holy Scriptures. Berlin 1949.
  • Christian Philosophy Preschool . Hamburg 1951.
As editor
  • Of the struggle and consolation of believing Christianity. Spiritual reflections by Johann Gerhard . Erlangen 1937.
  • Martin Luther : little consolation book for the laborious and the burdened . Göttingen 1938.
  • Plato territory . Dessau / Leipzig 1940.
  • Fairy tales and myths of Ovid . Berlin 1949.
  • Appeal to Christianity under threat. From Luther's Turkish writings . Hamburg 1951.
  • John Brinckman : The General Shipowner , Berlin 1952.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See the entries by Karl Kindt in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Compare DNB 574311637 in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Hans Brandenburg in: Hans Dannenbaum from his friends , Gladbeck (1957), p. 129

literature

personal data
SURNAME Kindt, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher, Protestant theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH April 1959