Otto Frommel (theologian, 1862)

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Otto Heinrich Frommel (born November 13, 1862 in Karlsruhe , † October 13, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German theologian , Protestant preacher at the Prussian legation in Rome and a publicist .

Life

Frommel was a son of the Karlsruhe Protestant theologian and city pastor and later Berlin court preacher Emil Frommel from his marriage to Amalie Bähr (1833-1915), a daughter of the Karlsruhe theologian Karl Bähr . He grew up in Karlsruhe, Barmen and Berlin . His uncles were the Protestant theologian Max Frommel , the painter Otto Frommel , who died a year before his birth, and the painter Karl Lindemann-Frommel . Through his older sister Elisabeth he became the brother-in-law of the archaeologist Christian Hülsen , through his younger sister Maria he became the brother-in-law of the priest and prince educator Johannes Kessler .

Frommel studied Protestant theology. Then he was assistant preacher at the Garrison Church , and from 1890 at the Friedrichwerder Church in Berlin. From 1891 to 1897 he served as pastor and preacher of the Protestant community in the Palazzo Caffarelli resident Prussian Legation in Rome . There he was also a member of the German Artists' Association . In 1898 he received his doctorate at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen with the text The relationship between mechanical and teleological explanation of nature in Kant and Lotze for Dr. phil. On August 8, 1901, he married Anna Margarethe Cäcilie Freiin von Dörnberg (1869–1910), the daughter of Baron Ernst von Dörnberg , landlord at the Fremersberg farm near Baden-Baden (1825–1897). After her death, he married two more times. He served as a pastor in various parishes. In 1900 he became pastor in Leiha , in 1906 pastor in Gera .

From 1907 to 1909 he was co-editor of the religious yearbook Neue Christoterpe . In 1908 he published Das Frommel-Gedenkwerk , the two-volume biography of the life and work of his father Emil Frommel, after he had contributed an article to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie in 1904 .

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  1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 192
  2. ↑ The relationship between mechanical and teleological explanation of nature in Kant and Lotze , data sheet in the portal commons.ptsem.edu , accessed on October 27, 2019
  3. ↑ Otto Frommel: The relationship between mechanical and teleological explanation of nature in Kant and Lotze . Inaugural dissertation, Friedrich-Alexanders-Universität Erlangen, Erlangen 1898 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser . 36th year (1886), p. 179 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ Gerhard Schwinge : Pictures of life from the Evangelical Church in Baden in the 19th and 20th centuries . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-502-6 , p. 80
  6. ^ Parish Almanac Province of Saxony . 1903, p. 223
  7. ↑ Otto Frommel (* 1862, † 1930) , search result in the portal kulthura.de
personal data
SURNAME Frommel, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frommel, Otto Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, Protestant preacher and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1930
Place of death Berlin