Martin Schlunk

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Karl Albert Martin Schlunk (born October 6, 1874 in Calicut , Kerala , † February 18, 1958 in Tübingen ) was a German missiologist .

Life

Martin Schlunk was the son of a German export merchant on the Malabar coast . His parents sent him to visit relatives in Brandenburg an der Havel to attend school . After graduating from university, he began to study Protestant theology at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin . Later, he moved in the same subject at the University in Halle (Saale) .

After successfully passing the final exam, Schlunk was in charge of the Bottschow parish (now “Boczów”) in Neumark ( Brandenburg province ) between 1903 and 1908 . In 1910 he was appointed inspector of the North German Mission Society in Bremen . 1913 it returned his employer to Hamburg , where he was director of until the outbreak of World War North German Mission Society worked. At the same time he gave lectures at the Hamburg Colonial Institute and at times at the University of Kiel .

In 1924 he became co-editor of the NAMZ , at the same time he was elected chairman of the German Evangelical Mission Day, and Schlunk held this office without interruption until 1946. As such, he took over a professorship for missiology at the University of Tübingen in 1928 and remained in this position until 1941. His successor was Walter Freytag from 1928, because in that year he followed his appointment to full professor of missiology at the University of Tübingen, where he 1941 taught. In addition, he was chairman of the DEMT from 1924 and part of the DEMR from 1933 to 1946 . He was such a “loyal subject” to the Nazi state that the Allies refused to denazify him.

After the Second World War, Schlunk helped reorganize the teaching operations, but did not take any more offices.

Works (selection)

  • François Coillard and the Mission on the Upper Zambezi , Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1904.
  • The North German Mission in Togo , two volumes, North German Missions Society, Bremen 1910/1912.
  • The schools for natives in the German protected areas on June 1, 1911 , Friederichsen, Hamburg 1914.
  • The school system in the German protected areas , Friederichsen, Hamburg 1914.
  • The worldview through the ages, Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1921.
  • Dutch East Indies as a mission field. With special consideration of the German missionary work, Evangelischer Missionsverlag, Stuttgart 1922.
  • The world religions and Christianity , Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1923.
  • The world mission of Christianity. A walk through nineteen centuries , Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1925.
  • God and the peoples. An introduction to the missionary ideas of the Bible , Furche-Verlag, Berlin 1930.
  • Great mission leader in church history , Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1931.
  • Leaders of Foreign Peoples and Christianity, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1933.
  • Memories of biblical studies , two volumes, Osiander, Tübingen 1933.
  • Paul as a missionary , Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1937.
  • A series of sermons on the Lord's Prayer, Quell-Verlag, Stuttgart 1949.
  • Outer Mission of the German Protestant Christianity , Heilmann, Gladbeck 1953.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Gerhard Aring "Martin Schlunk", in: BBKL 9, Sp. 319f.
personal data
SURNAME Schlunk, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German missiologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Kozhikode , Kerala
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1958
Place of death Tübingen