Otto Michaelis (theologian)

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Otto Michaelis (born September 17, 1875 in Strasbourg , † October 28, 1949 in Erlangen ) was a German Protestant theologian .

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Michaelis is the son of Adolf Michaelis (1835–1910). He spent his childhood in Strasbourg , where his father had held the chair of archeology at the newly founded University of Strasbourg since 1872 .

In 1910 Otto Michaelis was ordained in Strasbourg, in 1903 he became assistant preacher and in 1906 pastor in Metz . From 1919 he was a preacher in Weimar . He was close to Martin Rade and became a member of the German Democratic Party .

Michaelis was a student of Julius Smend and Friedrich Spitta and was influenced by the older liturgical movement . As chairman of the Evangelical Church Choral Society for Thuringia, he was responsible for the publication of the first Thuringian evangelical hymn book (1928/29). This hymn book initiated the national hymn book reform in the Protestant Church in Germany and was in many parts a model for the Protestant church hymn book of 1950. It brought the Strasbourg Marian or Advent song . A ship comes loaded by Johannes Tauler into the Protestant hymn book.

When the chair of church music was created at the Weimar Academy of Music in January 1933 , he was given a teaching position for hymnology and liturgy .

In 1925 Michaelis became press pastor of Thuringia and published the "Thuringian Evangelical Newspaper Correspondence", one of the first Protestant press agencies .

When the German Christians took over the leadership in the Thuringian Church , Otto Michaelis criticized the lack of resistance in his church in the daily newspaper. 

In the same year he lost his job as press pastor of the regional church and was put on hold at the beginning of 1934. In 1937 he also lost his teaching post at the university. In 1941 he moved back to Strasbourg and in 1945 to his daughter and son-in-law Wolfgang Trillhaas in Erlangen . He died here in 1949.

Publications (selection)

  • From the history of the Metz (sic!) Protestant community , Metz 1906
  • History sheets of the German Huguenot Association of the Metz Evangelical Congregation. 1914
  • Karl Hackenschmidt 1839–1915. A German singer and prophet from Alsace. 1916
  • The Evangelical Church in Lorraine. 1917
  • Protestant Martyrs Book. 1917, 1927², 1932³
  • How Weimar became Protestant. 1924
  • Bell sounds from Alsace. 1927
  • Song key. A handbook for the hymn book especially for pastors, religious teachers and church musicians. With special consideration of the German Protestant hymn book and the Thuringian Protestant hymn book. 1928
  • Grenzlandkirche: An Evangelical Church History of Alsace-Lorraine. 1870-1918. 1934
  • Experienced hymn. 1935
  • Heinrich Schütz . 1935
  • Johann Walter . 1939
  • The share of Alsace in the German-Protestant hymnal. In: Els.-Lothr.Jb. 19, 1941, pp. 238-287.
  • German-Evangelical in Alsace. 1941
  • Metz, an old bulwark of Protestantism. 1941
  • Alsatian characters. 1942
  • Johann Crüger . 1947
  • Life pictures of the songwriters and melodists. Edited by Wilhelm Lueken, using a manuscript by Otto Michaelis (Handbuch zum Evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch . Volume II, first part) 1957

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Lautenschläger, Der Kirchenkampf in Weimar 1933 to 1945, in: Justus H. Ulbricht (ed.), Klassikerstadt und Nationalozialismus, Weimar 2002, 179–190, 186f.

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personal data
SURNAME Michaelis, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1949
Place of death gain