Leopold Friedrich Ranke
Gotthilf Paul Emil Leopold Friedrich Ranke (born September 30, 1842 in Bayreuth , † March 27, 1918 in Lübeck ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor at St. Marien .
Life
origin
Ranke came from a family of academics. He was one of eight children of Friedrich Heinrich Ranke , consistorial councilor , later senior consistorial councilor, in Munich and Ansbach and his wife, Selma Wilhelmine nee. Schubert, a daughter of Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert . His uncle was the historian Leopold von Ranke , who was ennobled in Berlin in 1865 . Of his siblings, above all his brothers Johannes and Heinrich should become known.
career
After attending grammar school in Ansbach , he studied Protestant theology in Göttingen , Erlangen and Berlin. After completing his studies, he worked as a lecturer in Hebrew and Old Testament at the theological faculty of the University of Erlangen . After that he was first appointed as vicar to Lindau on Lake Constance , then he was head of a diaspora community near Munich. During the Franco-Prussian War he was a field deacon in the field . He received his first pastor's position in 1871 in the rural community of Balgheim near Möttingen .
The Erlangen church historian Gustav Leopold Plitt , who came from Genin (Lübeck) , recommended Ranke to Lübeck. On November 5, 1878, he was elected as the successor to the late pastor Theodor Holm as the main pastor of the Marienkirche in Lübeck and was introduced to his office on January 12, 1879. One of the main reasons for his choice was that he would be a good speaker . Initial resistance to his appointment soon gave way.
Soon after his appointment as senior pastor, he was appointed to the school board, which later became the high school authority , in order to work there for over 30 years. He chaired the Lübeck main association of the German Luther Foundation for several years and was deputy chairman of the Lübeck Bible Society .
In 1886, his nervous disease forced him to take a long vacation for the first time.
His tenure as a senior made decisive changes in church life. The Senate, as the owner of the sovereign church regiment , gave the church two new organs in 1895: the church council and the synod . At the same time, a new parish order came into force. The community received as many delineated pastoral care areas as there were clergymen . The parish council was reduced to the church council with the repeal of the parish committee . Communion services were introduced. The catechism sermons held in the Church of St. Mary of old , as well as the catechesations , were abolished, since children's services , such as the children's service of St. Mary founded by Ranke, offered a sufficient substitute for this. The examination of the Lübeck candidates at the candidate school had to be abandoned, as the number of those examined by far exceeded the requirements. An agreement was reached with the Schleswig-Holstein regional church that the Hanseatic city candidates were equal to their candidates. As a member of the church council, he represented it at the theological exams in Kiel .
On July 2, 1892 Senior Pastor Ranke after death was Johann Carl Lindesbergs the Senate of the Hanseatic City as his successor in the office of the Seniors of the Ministerium of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck so elected and senior clergy. As such, he represented Lübeck at the conference of the German Protestant church governments .
On his 60th birthday in 1902 the theological faculty awarded him the University of Kiel the honorary doctorate of theology.
Ranke's own work was the promotion of the tasks of the Inner Mission in Lübeck. Together with his ministerial brother at St. Jakobi, senior pastor Gustav Hofmeier , ten years his senior , he founded the Evangelical Club House at Fischstrasse 17 in 1885. The house, which was managed by Ranke, became the central point of contact for the Inner Mission. The seaman's home and the idiot institution (today part of the UKL building complex ) emerged from it.
Ranke also founded the Association for the Welfare of Language Capabilities and the Lübeck Seemannsheim Association . In 1898/99 he was the main initiator of the construction of a church in the Baltic Sea resort of Niendorf and, for practical reasons, had himself entered in the land register as the owner until a chapel congregation could be established in 1912 .
In the non-profit society Ranke worked in the head of the library , the industrial school and the school teachers' seminar . He was also a member of the Committee for Popular Evenings.
In 1909 Ranke was at the Eisenach conference . Immediately afterwards he went on a trip to England with the clergy of the German regional churches . The hardships in London as well as the sermons he gave in English in various churches showed their effect. Back in Lübeck, his nervous disease worsened and ultimately forced him to resign . On December 19, 1909 Ranke gave his farewell sermon and was then on leave until his retirement .
On March 27, 1918, Ranke suffered a stroke on his morning walk in the Mühlentor complex and died.
family
Ranke's first wife Marie, b. von Bever, died in 1874 after only three years of marriage. In 1876 Ranke married Julia (Julie) Wilhelmine Auguste, b. von Bever (1850-1924). The couple had three sons: Hermann , Otto and Friedrich , and two daughters (twins): Marie and Julie.
Works
- Memorial booklet for my dear confirmands. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1885; 4th edition 1899.
- Klopstock's Messiah in a short extract for the German house. Lübcke and Nöhring, Lübeck 1903.
- Luther as a Bible translator. Lecture given at the popular Luther celebration of the Evangelical Union on November 13, 1904 in the St. Marienkirche in Lübeck. Lübcke and Nöhring, Lübeck 1905.
- Pictures from the history of the papacy. Beck, Munich 1914.
Trivia
After the death of Senator Mann on October 13, 1891, Consul Fehling and the wine merchant Tesdorf were appointed guardians of five children who had left behind. Thomas Mann was 16 years old at the time. In his novel Die Buddenbrooks , for which he was later to receive the Nobel Prize , we encounter the senior tendril as Pastor Andras Pringsheim , whose stylized Franconian the organist moquers .
References
Web links
- Literature by and about Leopold Friedrich Ranke in the catalog of the German National Library
literature
- Senior Senior Pastor D. Ranke. In: Father-city sheets . Born 1909, No. 52, issue of December 25, 1909
- Dr. LF Ranke, senior and senior pastor a. D. In: Lübeckische Blätter . No. 1, edition of January 2, 1910
- Senior D. Ranke †. In: Father-city sheets. Born in 1918, No. 17, edition from April 14, 1918
- Senior D. Ranke. In: Lübeckische Blätter. No. 15, edition of April 14, 1918
- Wolf Dieter Hauschild: Church history of Lübeck . Lübeck 1981, p. 478 and ö.
- Alken Bruns: Ranke, Gotthilf Emil Leopold Friedrich. In: Lübeck CVs , ed. von Alken Bruns, Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 , pp. 314-317
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honor roll of those who took part in the campaign in 1870/71 and earlier campaigns from Lübeck and the surrounding area. In: Vaterstadtische Blätter ; Born 1910, No. 36, edition of September 2, 1910
- ↑ Since the seniority regulations of 1871, the senior was no longer elected by his colleagues in the Spiritual Ministry, but by the Senate of the Hanseatic City.
- ↑ In theology, however, the honorary doctorate is not abbreviated to "hc", honoris causa, but "D."
- ↑ The former seaman's home was converted in 1985 by the Diakonisches Werk into an accommodation for asylum seekers . It became widely known through the Lübeck arson attack in January 1996.
- ^ Church history Niendorf
- ↑ Hermann Kurzke : Thomas Mann. Life as a work of art. Munich: CH Becksche Verlagbuchhandlung 1999 ISBN 9783406551666 , p. 102f
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Carl Lindenberg |
Senior of the Ministerium in Lübeck 1892 - 1909 |
Heinrich Lindenberg |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ranke, Leopold Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ranke, Gotthilf Paul Emil Leopold Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 27, 1918 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |