Ludwig Ginger Nommensen
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Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen (born February 6, 1834 on Nordstrand , Duchy of Schleswig , † May 23, 1918 in Sigumpar, Sumatra ) was a German Protestant missionary who became known through his work among the Batak in Sumatra.
Life
Nommensen came from a poor family. When he was twelve, he was injured so badly that his legs were almost amputated. A horse and cart had run over him and crushed his legs. However, he recovered and then made up his mind to become a missionary. In 1857 he entered the seminary of the Rhenish Mission in Barmen (today Wuppertal ) . He was sent to Sumatra on Christmas Eve 1861. There he settled in the Silinden high valley in 1864. In August 1865 he was able to baptize the first families. From 1866 to 1872 August Schreiber supported him on site in his work. However, it took many years before larger Batak groups broke up with their ethnic religion and were baptized. In a second mission phase (approx. 1881–1903) he evangelized at Lake Toba in northern Sumatra. Here he faced the resistance of Batak prince Si Singamangaraja XII. to fight off. Nonetheless, he was very successful. In the year he died, the Batak Church (Toba Batak Church; since 1930 Huria Kristen Batak Protestan , or HKBP for short) had 180,000 members in around 500 parishes. It has now grown to over three million members.
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Honors
- 1904: Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn
- 1911: Officer's Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau
- The Universitas HKBP Nommensen is a Christian university founded in 1954 in Medan and Pematang Siantar in North Sumatra . It was named after Nommensen.
Church memorial days:
- Evangelical Church in Germany : 23 May in the Evangelical Name Calendar
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America : November 7th in Lutheran Worship, together with Johann Christian Friedrich Heyer and Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
literature
- Manfred Streng: Nommensen, Ludwig Ingwer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 331 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Werner Raupp : NOMMENSEN, Ludwig Ingwer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1002-1006.
- Johannes Warneck : D. Ludwig J. Nommensen. A picture of life. 4th edition, Missionshaus publishing house, Wuppertal-Barmen 1934.
- Johannes Warneck: Sixty years of Batak mission in Sumatra. 3rd edition, Verlag Martin Warneck, Berlin 1925.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Photo report about Nommensen's life (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Nordstrand (accessed on December 25, 2015)
- ^ A b Manfred Streng: Nommensen, Ludwig Ingwer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 331 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nommensen, Ludwig Ingwer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German missionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1834 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | North beach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1918 |
| Place of death | Sigumpar, Sumatra |