Kurt Müller-Osten
Kurt Müller-Osten (born December 8, 1905 in Breslau , † September 22, 1980 in Marburg ) was a German Protestant theologian , provost and prelate of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck and hymn poet .
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Kurt Müller-Osten was born as the son of a pastor in Silesia . In his hometown of Breslau he graduated from high school in 1924 and then studied theology at the universities of Tübingen , Breslau and Marburg .
He then entered the service of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck and completed his vicariate in Oberkaufungen near Kassel . After his ordination in 1930 he became pastor in Ronshausen and Rotenburg an der Fulda , at the same time he was district youth pastor and chairman for people's mission in the church district of Rotenburg. From 1952 parish posts followed at the Karlskirche in Kassel, in Bad Hersfeld , at the Pauluskirche and at the Elisabethkirche in Marburg .
Kurt Müller-Osten held numerous supraregional offices in his regional church: from 1946 to 1948 he was provost of the district of Hersfeld, from 1948 to 1952 prelate of the regional church of Kurhessen-Waldeck, from 1952 to 1962 again provost of the district of Hersfeld and from 1962 to 1971 provost of the Sprengels Waldeck and Marburg. After his retirement in 1971, Müller-Osten received the title "Church Councilor" of the Kurhessische Landeskirche in 1975. During the Second World War, Müller-Osten was a medical soldier, had been involved in the Confessing Church since 1934 and was part of the Berneuchen movement .
Of his numerous songs, the text of which he drafted, three were included in the Evangelical Hymnal .
Works
- Dawn, you big day . Stauda, Kassel 1948.
literature
- Heinz-Horst Schrey : Kurt Müller-Osten. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 308.
- Martin Bartsch, in: Composers and songwriters of the Evangelical Hymnal, ed. by Wolfgang Herbst (= Handbook for the Evangelical Hymnal, Vol. 2). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-50318-0 , pp. 219-220.
Web links
- Literature by and about Kurt Müller-Osten in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller-Osten, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1980 |
| Place of death | Marburg |