Lindolfo Weingärtner

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Lindolfo Weingärtner (born August 27, 1923 in Santa Isabel , Santa Catarina , Brazil ; † March 20, 2018 in Brusque , Brazil) was a German-Brazilian Evangelical Lutheran pastor, professor of practical theology, writer and poet.

Life

Lindolfo Weingärtner was a descendant of German immigrants who had come from the Moselle valley and the Palatinate in the first half of the 19th century and who had found a new home in southern Brazil. He studied Protestant theology at the São Leopoldo University until 1942 . Because of the Second World War, classes were suspended and the school closed, and he worked as a young theologian in parishes. In 1946 he was able to continue his studies and complete it in 1948. From 1948 to 1950 he was parish priest in Timbó and Ituporanga . From 1950 to 1953 he was the director of the Evangelical School in Panambi , after which he went to Itoupava and Brusque in the province of Santa Catarina as a pastor .

In 1960 Weingärtner was appointed to the chair for practical theology at the College of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil ( Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana no Brasil - IECLB ) in São Leopoldo. There he was the first professor to teach in Portuguese , the national language. He also worked on the new ecclesiastical hymn book of the Evangelical Church of Brazil (IECLB), which appeared in 1964. 27 hymns and songs in it are from his pen; in later editions his translations of hymns in other languages ​​were added. Weingärtner received his doctorate during his time as a theological teacher at the University of Erlangen ; his doctoral thesis was entitled Umbanda . Syncretistic Cults in Brazil - a Challenge to the Christian Church and was published in 1969.

From 1972 to 1975 he was again active as a pastor in the parish of Peace in Joinville . In 1976 he left the pastor's service due to health reasons and devoted himself more to literary and church music activities.

He was married to Margaret Elizabeth Hatzky, who died in 1989. They had two daughters and two sons together. His second marriage was to Erna Jönk; they lived near the town of Brusque.

Works

Weingärtner wrote novels, stories, poems, sermons and theological and pastoral textbooks primarily in the Portuguese language of Brazil. Only his doctoral thesis and the stories collected under the title “Das Lied der Amsel” are written in German. Some Portuguese works have been translated into German and have attracted attention.

  • Umbanda. Syncretistic cults in Brazil - a challenge for the Christian church (= Erlanger pocket books , vol. 8). Publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Erlangen 1969.
  • Web of hope. Spiritual poems and reflections from Brazil to ponder and pray along with. (= Erlanger paperbacks , vol. 55). Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1980, ISBN 3-87214-123-6 .
  • One should be your neighbor today (= row ABC-Team ). Schriftenmissions-Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1986, ISBN 3-7958-2531-8 ; also in the Erlanger Taschenbücher series , vol. 78. Verlag der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Mission, Erlangen 1986, ISBN 3-87214-178-3 .
  • Whoever saw has to scream. New reflections and poems from Brazil . Schriftenmissions-Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1990, ISBN 3-7958-1503-7 .
  • In God our time comes to an end. Thoughts - poems - prayers. Erlanger Verlag for Mission and Ecumenism, Erlangen 1997, ISBN 978-3-87214-517-8 .
  • The song of the blackbird and other stories. Brunnen , Giessen 2002, ISBN 978-3-76551-700-6 .
  • No word rhymes with human. 40 spiritual sonnets for our time. Erlanger Verlag for Mission and Ecumenism, Erlangen 2004, ISBN 978-3-87214-611-3 .

The Brazilian portal Luteranos offers an overview of his song and hymn poetry (with text examples).

Web links

  • Lindolfo Weingärtner. In: lindolfow.com. web.archive.org, 2018, archived from the original on August 22, 2018 (former website with biography, bibliography, reading samples downloads).;

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meinrad Piske: A IECLB perde seu poeta maior . In: O Caminho . tape 34 , no. 5 , May 2018, p. 4 (Portuguese, issuu.com [accessed May 4, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Literally: Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil.
  3. ^ Lindolfo Weingärtner on the website of the Brazilian Lutherans
  4. ↑ Lindolfo Weingärtner on Wordpress Wordpress
  5. ↑ The song of the blackbird was read aloud on Radio ERF in Germany on April 22, 2012. ( short excerpt from the reading ).
  6. ^ Lindolfo Weingärtner (* 1923). Obra e Biografia , accessed March 28, 2015 (Portuguese)
personal data
SURNAME Weingärtner, Lindolfo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Lutheran pastor, professor of practical theology, writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Isabel , Santa Catarina , Brazil
DATE OF DEATH 20th March 2018
Place of death Brusque , Santa Catarina , Brazil