Otto Herold

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Otto Herold (born February 27, 1848 in Chur , † February 2, 1945 in Winterthur ) was a Swiss Protestant theologian and pioneer of the ecumenical movement .

Life

Otto Herold was born in Chur on February 27, 1848 as the son of pastor Leonhard Herold. Herold studied theology in Lausanne , Zurich , Heidelberg and Berlin . He was ordained in 1870 and then lived as a tutor in London until 1872 . In 1872 he was elected pastor of the Schwanden community in Glarus and from there in 1878 he moved to Winterthur as pastor, where he remained in this office until 1918. Herold began an extensive activity in Winterthur. During the federal intervention after the Ticino putsch, he was employed as a field preacher . In 1895 he was elected dean and held this office until 1911. In Winterthur he was a member of the Herrenstuben Society , which he chaired from 1896 to 1917 as chamberlain, and an honorary member of Vitodurania . From 1903 Herold also served as a member and from 1910 as President of the Zurich Council of Churches . He then worked from 1921 to 1930 as President of the Federation of Swiss Evangelical Churches .

Otto Herold, who married Ida Weber in 1884, died on February 2, 1945 at the age of almost 97 in Winterthur.

Act

Otto Herold combined liberal theology with ecumenical breadth. He was active in the peace organization World Alliance for Friendship Work of Churches , chaired an international conference for interchurch aid in Copenhagen in 1922 and participated in the Stockholm World Conference of Churches in 1925 and in the World Conference on Faith and Order in Lausanne in 1927 . He wrote several works on school, social , missionary and church contemporary history . Otto Herold was one of the most important pioneers of the ecumenical movement in Switzerland.

Fonts

  • History of the Schwanden parish. 1875.
  • Images from the history and geography of the Canton of Glarus. 1879.
  • The task of the church in the present. 1884.
  • The welfare institutions in Winterthur. 1900.
  • Eternal life in earthly life. 1902.
  • Field sermon given in Winterthur in front of the rifle battalion 6. 1904.
  • Thomas Barnardo. 1906.
  • History of the Auxiliary Society Winterthur 1812–1912. 1912.
  • David Livingstone. 1922.
  • Our regional church. 1923.
  • The World Church Conferences in Stockholm. 1925.
  • Ultra montes, a vacation trip. 1927.
  • History of the Winterthur section of the SAC With August Bohli, 1928.

Honor

literature

  • Zurich Pastors' Book 1519–1952 . Edited by Emmanuel Dejung and Willy Wuhrmann, Zurich 1953, p. 331.
  • Janett Michel: One hundred and fifty years of the Bündner Kantonsschule 1804–1954. Chur 1954.
  • Paul Schweizer: Liberal - positive - religious-social. A contribution to the history of the directions in Swiss Protestantism. Zurich 1972.
  • Pastors calendar for Reformed Switzerland. 1949.
  • Arnold Mobbs: The Protestant Churches in Switzerland in the Age of Ecumenism and Interchurch aid. 1970, pp. 11-27.
  • Rudolf Dellsperger : Herold, Otto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Erich Wenneker :  HEROLD, Otto. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 573-674.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Alfred Ziegler: The Society of the Herrenstube zu Winterthur. Updated to the present day and provided with an appendix by Hans Klaui. Edited by the Herrenstubengesellschaft Winterthur, Winterthur 1956, p. 124.
  2. ↑ [[Peter Hauser (Author) |]]: The «Vito»: the former Winterthur «Who's who». In: Gesellschaft Winterthurer Jahrbuch (Ed.): Winterthurer Jahrbuch 2015. Winterthur 2014, ISBN 978-3-9524286-1-0 , p. 142.
  3. ↑ Martin Sallmann : The Oxford Group at the Federal Council and in Parliament in Bern (1935). Convergences of religious and political convictions in Federal Councilor Rudolf Minger and the Oxford Group . In: Ulrich Gäbler , Martin Sallmann, Hans Schneider (eds.): Swiss church history - newly reflected. Festschrift for Rudolf Dellsperger on his 65th birthday . Peter Lang, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-0343-0430-6 , pp. 307–338, here p. 309.

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SURNAME Herold, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant theologian and pioneer of the ecumenical movement
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1945
Place of death Winterthur