Karl Manoury

Karl Manoury (born November 2, 1894 in Schwedt / Oder ; † August 8, 1966 in Potsdam ) was a German theologian and historian of Huguenot descent.

Life

Karl August Eugen Manoury was a son of the dragoons and bridge overseer August Manoury. His father belonged to the 7th generation of a Huguenot family that had been settled in Groß Ziethen in 1686 . After attending grammar school in Schwedt, Manoury began studying theology, which was interrupted by the First World War. In 1923 he was ordained a pastor and worked first as an assistant preacher, then as a pastor, first in Reetz . In 1925 he married Ilse Karsunky from Berlin, with whom he had three children.

In 1931 Manoury succeeded Joseph Chambon as pastor of the French Reformed community in Potsdam. He held this position until his retirement. At the same time he was pastor at the French Cathedral in Berlin.

Karl Manoury died a few months after the death of his wife. The family's grave is in the French cemetery in Berlin's Chausseestrasse.

Fonts

• History of the Huguenot Church . 2 volumes, 1940/41
• The warfare of the Huguenots 1562–1598 . 1955
• The history of the French reformed (Brandenburg) provincial communities . 1957

Web links

• Internet presentation of the French Reformed Congregation Potsdam (with picture)