Adolf Sydow

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Adolf Sydow

Karl Leopold Adolf Sydow (born November 23, 1800 in Charlottenburg , † October 23, 1882 in Berlin ) was a Protestant theologian.

Life

His father was Otto Ferdinand Sydow, mayor of Charlottenburg, his mother Sophie Henriette, geb. Müncheberg. He had six siblings. Adolf Sydow married Rosalie Ziegler († 1840), the daughter of a Berlin police council, on May 23, 1828. The marriage had seven children.

After finishing private lessons, Sydow attended the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin under the direction of Joachim Bellermann , which he left as a primus omnium . In 1819 he enrolled at the University of Berlin , where he became an enthusiastic student of Friedrich Schleiermacher . After his death he published several volumes of Schleiermacher's sermons in 1836 and 1837, including the homilies on the Gospel of John .

Even before his exams , in 1822 the commander of the Berlin cadet institute, Johann Georg Emil von Brause , offered him the free repetition position at the cadet corps , which Sydow gratefully accepted. After a serious illness he passed his exam in 1827 and was immediately declared eligible for the office of preacher because of his excellent qualification. By direct submission to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. the cadet commander von Brause managed to get Sydow immediately afterwards to the vacant position of preacher in the cadet corps, which he held until 1837. Ordination took place on January 27, 1828 with the assistance of Schleiermacher and Friedrich August Pischon .

In the autumn of 1836 Sydow was by Friedrich Wilhelm III. appointed court and guard division preacher in Potsdam . Of . Friedrich Wilhelm IV , he was sent to England in 1841 to observe the local ecclesiastical states and was a by Queen Victoria out vera lasstes opinion on the Scottish church separation: The Scottish church question (Potsdam 1845). After witnessing the founding of the Free Church of Scotland (the so-called "disruption" ) in 1843 , he also advocated the liberation of the Evangelical Church from the sovereign church regiment in his home country .

Grave of Adolf Sydow in Berlin-Kreuzberg

In 1844 Sydow returned to Potsdam , where he was appointed to the Provincial Synod . He was also a member of the Prussian general synod of 1846 . In 1846 he exchanged his position as court preacher with the preacher position offered by the Berlin magistrate at the New Church in Berlin. In 1848, Sydow was appointed by the Berlin magistrate to speak for the Protestants who fell in March and was elected as a member of the Prussian National Assembly. Sydow survived two assassinations and had a large following.

In addition to his position as parish priest, Sydow was also involved in church politics, including being a co-founder of the monthly magazine for the uniate Evangelical Church and a board member of the Gustav Adolf Association . Between 1850 and 1856 he published a German edition of the American Unitarian theologian William Ellery Channing . On January 12, 1872, he gave the lecture on the miraculous birth of Jesus at the Union Association in Berlin (printed in the Collection of Protestant Lectures , Berlin 1873). His doubts about the virgin birth led to a disciplinary investigation by the Berlin Consistorial President Immanuel Hegel , which initially led to his removal from office. The Evangelical Oberkirchenrat but converted on 5 July 1873, the penalty in a sharpened reference to.

Adolf Sydow died in Berlin in 1882 at the age of almost 82. He was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The gravestone was adorned until 1945 with a bronze portrait relief by Sydow, the work of the sculptor Otto Lessing .

His daughter Marie Sydow wrote a biography after his death (Berlin 1883).

Fonts (selection)

  • Speech at the grave of Mr. Johann Georg Emil von Brause on April 13, 1836. Dietericische Buchdruckerei (ES Mittler), Berlin 1836
  • Contributions to the characteristics of ecclesiastical matters in Great Britain , 2 parts, Potsdam 1844f.
  • Words spoken in Friedrichshain at the burial of those who fell on March 18 and 19. Literarisches Inst., Berlin [1848] (see also: Friedhof der Märzgefallenen )
  • Words spoken on Ludwig Tieck 's coffin on May 1, 1853. Schulze, Berlin 1853
  • Words at the laying of the foundation stone for Schiller's monument in Berlin on November 10, 1859. Schulze, Berlin 1859
  • Documents pertaining to the disciplinary proceedings imposed on me by the Royal Consistory of the Province of Brandenburg because of my lecture “On the miraculous birth of Jesus”. Henschel, Berlin 1873

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Leopold Adolf Sydow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 235.
  2. ^ Jörg Kuhn : Otto Lessing 1846–1912. Sculptor, craftsman, painter. Life and work of a sculptor of late historicism. With special consideration of his work as a building sculptor , Phil. Diss. Freie Universität Berlin 1994 (reading copy, among others, in the Berlin Art Library, Kulturforum at Matthäikirchplatz 8).
personal data
SURNAME Sydow, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sydow, Karl Leopold Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1882
Place of death Berlin