Martin Gensichen
Martin Theodor Gensichen (born November 10, 1842 in Dertzow , Soldin / Neumark district (today in Polish Derczewo, Gmina Myślibórz ), † 1927 ) was a Lutheran theologian and, as a mission director, was the head of the Berlin Mission Society for many years .
Live and act
Martin Gensichen is in the rectory of the later Crossener grew Gensichen Superintendent Robert Friedrich. He attended high school in the Pomeranian Greifenberg (Gryfice) and studied from 1861 to 1862 in Halle , Berlin and Erlangen . There he became a member of the Hallenser , Berliner and Erlanger Wingolf .
On February 10, 1867 Gensichen was in Kossar (Polish: Kosierz, Gmina Dąbie) in the district Crossen (Oder) to the priest ordained . Until 1885 he was a clergyman in this community in Brandenburg .
Then Martin Gensichen moved to Pomerania and became pastor in Teschendorf in the Regenwalde district until he was called to Belgard an der Persante (Białogard) in 1888 as pastor at the local Marienkirche and superintendent of the Belgard church district in the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
In 1895 Martin Gensichen was appointed director of the Berlin Mission Society in Berlin, which gave his professional life a completely new focus. Gensichen devoted himself to this new task with great dedication and skill and shaped the mission society very decisively during his 18-year term in office.
Main areas of work at that time were China and South Africa, which Gensichen traveled several times and exercised his influence "on the spot". As a Lutheran theologian, he not only geared the mission society towards the Lutheran creed, but was also one of the leading Lutherans within the Prussian Union.
Gensichen led the Berlin Mission Society until his retirement in 1913.
Fonts
- Hans Hugo von Kleist . A picture of life , Berlin, 1892.
- Just a reaper ... memories from my life , Hamburg, 1915.
literature
- Art. Gensichen, Martin in Religion in Past and Present , 2nd ed., Vol. 2, Col. 1024.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Complete directory of Wingolf, Lichtenberg 1991
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gensichen, Martin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gensichen, Martin Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dertzow , District of Soldin , Neumark |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1927 |