Ludwig Bernhard Schmid

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Ludwig Bernhard Ehregott Schmid (born March 20, 1788 in Lobeda , † October 20, 1857 in Calicut ) was a German Protestant clergyman and missionary .

Life

family

Ludwig Bernhard Schmid was born as the son of Rudolph Ludwig Schmid, deacon and pastor of Wöllnitz , who was appointed preacher in Sulzbach near Apolda in 1796 . After his mother died in 1806, his father later married again.

His brothers were:

He was married to Mary Jackson and they had three daughters together:

  • Hanna Maria Mitcheson (* 1826; † unknown), b. Schmid;
  • Armella Richter (* 1836; † unknown), b. Schmid;
  • Lucy Sherwood Schmid (* 1843; † unknown) ;.

Two granddaughters who served as missionaries were:

  • Ella Mitcheson (* 1858; † unknown), head of a hospital and clinic in Peshawar (then India);
  • Katharina Clara Carpenter (* 1865; † unknown), b. Richter, studied medicine in Madras and became a general practitioner in Lahore in 1890 .

Career

Ludwig Bernhard Schmid attended schools in Lobeda and Sulzbach before he was taught at the age of 10 by the church councilor Carl Christian Erhard Schmid in his educational institute in Jena . Here he also received instruction in ancient languages ​​and in botany; so he was able to attend the lectures of Professor August Batsch at the age of 14 .

Since Easter 1803 he attended, together with his younger brother Deocar Schmid , the Naumburg Cathedral High School , at that time directed by Vice-Rector August Gotthilf Gernhard (1771-1845). From 1807 to 1809 he studied theology at the University of Jena . He then became a tutor to the von Clermont family in Vaals near Aachen .

In 1811 he became a teacher at the institute of the court preacher and church councilor Johann Georg Breidenstein (1769-1847) in Homburg . There he mainly dealt with languages, and the desire arose to learn Sanskrit . For this he wanted to go to Paris . For this he needed the permission of the President of the General Consistory of the Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession , Johann Friedrich Jacobi . Instead, he offered him a pastor's position in Trarbach , which was linked to a teaching position. Ludwig Bernhard Schmid had been a pastor there since 1812. Two years later he received an offer from President Jacobi to be employed by Karl Friedrich Reinhard as tutor . In November 1814 he began to study Arabic and Armenian in Paris. When Napoleon returned from Elba , he had to break off his studies. He left Paris with his students on February 25, 1815 and spent some time with them at Karl Friedrich Reinhard's Falkenlust estate . There he learned of his younger brother Deocar's desire to become a missionary. He asked him to accompany him as a missionary.

Ludwig Bernhard Schmid returned once more to the institute in Homburg. There he met the preacher Carl Friedrich Adolf Steinkopf from London , who encouraged him in his decision to become a missionary. He applied to the same missionary society that his brother had applied to and, after being accepted as a missionary, traveled to London in 1816.

On April 11, 1817, he left for Madras with his brother and his wife . They arrived there on August 4, 1817. Originally they were intended for use in Calcutta , but due to the need they stayed in Madras for the time being. In October 1819 Ludwig Bernhard Schmid was transferred to Palayamkottai in the Tirunelveli district . From there he went to Trankenbar and took over the supervision of 31 schools. In May 1831 he was transferred to Oatakamund in the Nilgiri Mountains and on July 5, 1834 he went to Majaburam in the Tamil Nadu region , six hours from Trankebar . For health reasons he returned to Jena on July 27, 1837. After restoring his health, he returned to India and continued his missionary work.

Act

Ludwig Bernhard Schmid worked as a missionary, school founder, writer, educator and preacher in the Tamil and English languages.

On a trip to Germany he donated a rich collection of Indian seeds and plants to the Jena Botanical Garden .

Honors

The theological faculty of the University of Jena honored him for his missionary services with the Dr. hc theol.

Works

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wendelin Koehler: Johannes Schmid's Descendants - Volume 2: 400 Years of Thuringian Family History - Princely Officials and Scholars, p. 284 ff. BoD - Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6489-6 ( google.de [accessed on February 22, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Jenaische Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung No. 197 v. October 1825, p. 134 ff. Leipzig, 1825 ( google.de [accessed on February 23, 2018]).
  3. ^ Oscar Ludwig Bernhard WOLFF: New, elegant conversation lexicon for educated people from all classes. Edited ... by Dr. OLB Wolff. With steel engravings. Second cheap ... edition . 1842 ( google.de [accessed on February 24, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Carl Christian Gottlieb Schmidt: Brief descriptions of the lives of strange evangelical missionaries: together with a tabular overview of the current inventory of evangelical mission societies and the entire evangelical missionary system, Volume 2, pp. 1-134 . Hinrichsschen buchhandlung, 1846 ( google.de [accessed on February 24, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Conversations Lexicon of the Latest Times and Literature: in four volumes. S - Z, p. 177 . Brockhaus, 1834 ( google.de [accessed February 24, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Ludwig Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Bernhardus; Schmid, Ludwig Bernhard Ehregott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and missionary
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Lobeda
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1857
Place of death Calicut