Karl von Burger (theologian, 1834)

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Karl von Burger (son) (born July 9, 1834 in Erlangen , † November 26, 1905 in Munich ) was a German Protestant theologian and Bavarian senior consistorial councilor.

The son of the theologian Heinrich Carl August von Burger and his first wife Elise, née Krafft (* 1812), from Erlangen, received the Absolutorium (Abitur) at the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium in 1851 . He then studied Classical Philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and, from 1852, theology at the University of Erlangen . After attending the preachers' seminar in Munich, he became pastor in Burtenbach in Swabia and in Kempten in the Allgäu , then consistorial councilor in Ansbach . In 1865 he married Auguste Helene Puchta (* 1843 in Eyb near Ansbach , † 1904 in Waldheim near Urphertshofen ). Since 1891 Oberkonstorialrat in Munich, he headed the seminary and several times the general synod . He maintained a friendly relationship with Wilhelm Preger . Like his father, he was raised to the personal nobility .

The children of the marriage were the son Ernst August Eugen Burger (* 1874 in Burtenbach / Swabia, † 1935 in Munich), also a theologian and most recently Oberkirchenrat in Munich, and the daughter Emma Sophie (married Hofmann, 1875–1947).

literature

  • Erich Scheibmayr: Who? When? Where? Personalities in Munich cemeteries; Erich Scheibmayr Munich publisher, Munich 1989.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book Munich 1874: Burger, Heinrich KA, Dr., Oberconsistorial-Rath, Briennerstr. 54
  2. ^ Annual report on the k. Maximilians-Gymnasium in Munich for the school year 1850/51; Father: k. Dean and first pastor in Munich
  3. https://www.bayern-evangelisch.de  ›ELKB-Festschrift-Jan-2010-2014 (photo)