Philipp Bickel
Philipp Bickel (born September 29, 1829 in Weinheim , † November 9, 1914 in Kassel ) was a typesetter , Baptist theologian and publicist .
Life
Bickel came from a non-Christian family. He learned the profession of typesetter and emigrated to the United States in 1848 . Here he found contact with a Baptist church and turned due to inner conversion to Christianity to. He gained his first experience in practical church work and decided to become a clergyman. Bickel therefore enrolled in 1852 at the seminary of the German-speaking Baptists in Rochester in the US state of New York. After successfully completing his degree in 1855, he first worked as a parish pastor, then as an editor of a German-language Christian magazine and from 1870 as head of the Baptist publishing house in Cleveland (Ohio) .
In 1878 Philipp Bickel returned to Germany . He had received the order to take over the management of the JGOncken publishing house . At the same time he took over the German agency of the Scottish Bible Society, which was connected to Oncken-Verlag . His new field of activity also included the editor-in-chief of the Baptist weekly magazine The Truth Witness . He managed the finances of the German Baptist Union on a voluntary basis and was also the chairman of the school commission of the German Baptist Seminary until 1899 .
Effects
With the publication of the children's song book Singvögelein, Philipp Bickel had a great influence on German Sunday school work for many generations . This songbook was first published in Cincinnati in 1867 for German-language Sunday school work in the USA . In 1874 he adapted it to the conditions in Germany. It appeared in over 500,000 copies and influenced the free church children's worship service for over 100 years in the sense of an awakening and happy piety . The songbird that was reissued also contains numerous song texts from Bickel's pen; u. a .: Jesus certainly loves me ; I would like to be like Jesus ; Shake hands, the hours slip by .
literature
- Philipp Bickel (Ed.): Singvögelein , Hamburg 1874, Kassel 1930
- Albert Hoefs: Philipp Bickel - a leader of the second Baptist generation in Germany , Kassel 1936
- J. Schütte: Philipp Bickel in: Die GEMEINDE magazine , No. 5–11 / 1960 Kassel 1960
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Bickel, Philipp. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 579.
Web links
- Literature by and about Philipp Bickel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bickel, Philipp |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German publicist, writer, Baptist theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weinheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1914 |
| Place of death | kassel |