Philipp Friedrich Mader
Philipp Friedrich Mader (* 1832 in Mägerkingen in the Oberamt Reutlingen ; † June 2, 1917 in Lucca , Italy ) was a Protestant preacher and German-speaking pastor in Nice .
Live and act
Mader was born in 1832 as the sixth of thirteen children of a Swabian Pietist family in the Kingdom of Württemberg . The parents were the mayor Philipp Mader in Mägerkingen and his wife Helene, née Hipp. Mader originally intended to go overseas as a missionary . So he began training with the Basel Mission , but his mission plans failed due to his unstable health. Instead, Mader went to Nice - then still Italian - where he founded the first German-speaking parish in France . In 1856 he held the first German-language church service there in France. In 1858/59 Mader's congregation first received national attention when King Wilhelm I of Württemberg regularly took part in the services held by Mader during a stay in Nice that lasted several weeks. In 1866, thanks to generous donations from German and Swiss aristocrats, including Wilhelm I, Mader was able to found the first “German Church” in France.
After the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 , Mader, who as a German was now openly hostile, moved across the border to Italy to look after his community from there. In 1914, with the beginning of World War I , Mader's church and rectory were confiscated by the French state as hostile property. He himself spent the last years of his life in poor conditions in Italy, where he died and is buried in Lucca.
family
In 1859 Mader married Mathilde Luise Moser, the daughter of Stuttgart's senior teacher Immanuel Gottlieb Moser (* 1790; † 1864) and his wife Marie Josefine (* 1806; † 1884), a sister of Professor Karl Georg von Wächter from Tübingen . The marriage between Philipp Friedrich Mader and Mathilde resulted in 13 children, including the writer Friedrich Wilhelm Mader , who became known as the "Swabian Karl May" .
In 2006, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Mader's missionary work in southern France, a first biography about the theologian by Hans Binder with a foreword by the Württemberg regional bishop Frank Otfried July was published .
literature
- Hans Binder: Philipp Friedrich Mader (1832-1917). Preacher and pastor for servants and majesties in Nice on the French Riviera . Lit, Berlin 2006. (= Forgotten Theologians; 5) ISBN 978-3-8258-9833-5 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Philipp Friedrich Mader in the catalog of the German National Library
- “The soul of the Protestants in Nice” - Evangelical Church in Germany
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mader, Philipp Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mägerkingen , Reutlingen District Office |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 2, 1917 |
| Place of death | Lucca , Italy |