Karl Piepenbring

Karl Piepenbring, 1911

Karl Piepenbring (also: Charles Piepenbring ; born June 15, 1840 in Mittelbergheim ; † 1928 in Strasbourg ) was pastor, church president and member of the first chamber of the Alsace-Lorraine state parliament .

Life

Karl Piepenbring, who was of the Lutheran denomination , attended elementary school, preparatory school in Batignolles (Paris) and studied theology at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Strasbourg . In 1871 he was ordained as a pastor at the Lutheran Church of Ste-Aurélie in Strasbourg. He was active in the YMCA . From 1871 to 1880 he was pastor in Fouday (Steintal). When the Reformed Consistory of Strasbourg announced the French-speaking pastorate at the Reformed Church du Bouclier in Strasbourg, Piepenbring applied and was accepted because there was an acute shortage of Reformed preachers. Piepenbring converted to the Reformed denomination and served the community from 1880 to 1914. From 1883 he was President of the Reformed Consistory in Strasbourg.

Since 1880 he had worked significantly to unite the Reformed consistorial districts located in Alsace-Lorraine through a joint synod to form the regional church called the Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine , which was recognized by an imperial edict of June 21, 1905. From 1895 to 1898 Piepenbring was secretary of the reformed synodal committee and then succeeded his deceased predecessor Karl Buhl as president of the synodal committee from 1898 to 1913, before Albert Kuntz succeeded him. As President of the Synod, Piepenbring was a member of the first chamber of the state parliament from 1911.

The imperial authorities' ban on French as the language of preaching in church services after the start of the war in 1914 (except in communities with predominantly Francophone residents, typically in the Lorraine district ) hit the decidedly francophone beeper in particular.

Fonts

Ulrich Zwingli . Ceremonial speech given at the 400th anniversary of his birth in the Reformed Church in Strasbourg . Strasbourg 1884.
Théologie de l'Ancien Testament (Theology of the Old Testament). Fischbacher, Paris 1886.
Histoire du peuple d'Israël (History of the People of Israel). Grassart, Paris 1898.
Jésus historique (The historical Jesus). Nourry, Paris 1909; again: Librairie Istra, Paris 1922.
Jésus et les Apôtres (Jesus and the Apostles). Nourry, Paris 1911.

literature

Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual . Mulhouse 1911, p. 122.

Remarks

^ ^A ^b Anthony Steinhoff: The gods of the city: Protestantism and religious culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914. Brill, Leiden and Boston 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16405-5 . P. 207.
^ Anthony Steinhoff: The gods of the city: Protestantism and religious culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914. Brill, Leiden and Boston 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16405-5 . P. 216.
↑ Theological and philosophical correspondence 1900–1965 , Werner Zager (Ed.), Beck, Munich 2006, (= works from the estate of Albert Schweitzer; edited by Richard Brüllmann), p. 191. ISBN 3-406-54900-4 .

Web links

Short biography (entry: Strasbourg, paroisse réformée du Bouclier in the Wiki-Protestants; French).

personal data
SURNAME	Beeper, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beep, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Member of the state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mittelbergheim
DATE OF DEATH	1928
Place of death	Strasbourg

[Steinhoff_2008_207-1] A ^b Anthony Steinhoff: The gods of the city: Protestantism and religious culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914. Brill, Leiden and Boston 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16405-5 . P. 207.

[Steinhoff_2008_216-2] Anthony Steinhoff: The gods of the city: Protestantism and religious culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914. Brill, Leiden and Boston 2008, ISBN 978-90-04-16405-5 . P. 216.

[Schweitzer_Briefwechsel_191-3] Theological and philosophical correspondence 1900–1965 , Werner Zager (Ed.), Beck, Munich 2006, (= works from the estate of Albert Schweitzer; edited by Richard Brüllmann), p. 191. ISBN 3-406-54900-4 .