Ludwig Richard Conradi

Ludwig Richard Conradi (born March 20, 1856 in Karlsruhe , † September 16, 1939 in Hamburg ) was a German missionary and mission director of the Seventh-day Adventist Church .

Life

Since his father died early, he was raised as a foster child by a railway official. He learned languages ​​such as Latin, Greek and French at an early age and supposedly wanted to become a missionary. He was Catholic at the time. In 1872 he emigrated to the USA and settled in New York . In 1878 he took a job on a farm. He found accommodation with an Adventist family, whose community he then joined. In 1878 he was baptized by the Adventists. In 1879 Conradi first met Ellen G. White , an Adventist co-founder in the United States. Soon after, Conradi began working as an evangelist missionary for the community.

In 1886 Conradi traveled to Switzerland with William C. White, the son of Ellen White. His work in Switzerland and later in Germany significantly shaped the development of Adventists in this region. In Basel , the Adventists owned a community printing house that printed the community's writings. However, various problems with the authorities led to the closure of the publishing house. Conradi was only partially involved there. Conradi then moved to Hamburg, where he built his own publishing house with a printing plant that works for the Adventists and where he also published his own publications. The publishing house Internationele Traktatgesellschaft was located at Grindelberg 15a. In 1888, Conradi became the director of the European Adventist Division as a mission director.

In 1932, however, there was a break with the Seventh-day Adventist community when Conradi no longer recognized Ellen White's status as a "prophetess" after discovering omissions and other irregularities in her writings, leading to his retirement from the administration of the Adventist magazine "Herold" in 1931. In 1932 he renounced his pension and founded "autonomous congregations" with several thousand Adventists, which in 1936 united to form the United Evangelical Christians of the Seventh Day . The community was particularly widespread in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia, but went down in the turmoil of World War II .

Publications

• The service of the good angels and the re-enactments of the fallen, along with biblical pointers with reference to their origin and their fate. International Traktatgesellschaft, Hamburg, Basel a. a. (2nd edition, published in a revised and enlarged form) 1898, further editions: 1913 and (300th thousand) 1915.
• The seer at the court of Babel or world history in the light of the Bible. International tract society.
• The seer of Patmos. A meditation on the last book of the Bible. International tract society.
• The last two in one volume: Daniel and Revelation. International tract society.

literature

• Daniel Heinz: Ludwig Richard Conradi missionary, evangelist and organizer of the Seventh-day Adventists in Europe , 3rd exp. Edition, Adventistica: Series of publications of the Historical Archives of Seventh-day Adventists in Europe, Frankfurt / Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-33744-2 .
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Ludwig Richard Conradi. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1116-1117.
• Gerhard Padderatz: Conradi and Hamburg: the beginnings of the German Adventist Church (1889-1914) with special consideration of financial and social aspects. Dissertation Uni Kiel 1978

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Richard Conradi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography information
• Martin Körner: Conradi, Ludwig Richard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .