Reinhold Baumstark (politician)

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Reinhold Baumstark (born August 24, 1831 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † January 29, 1900 in Mannheim ) was a German politician and literary historian.

Life

Reinhold Baumstark was the son of the Catholic philologist Anton Baumstark sen. and his evangelical wife Friederike Luise Mez. The later lecturer at the Lutheran seminary in St. Louis , Missouri , Hermann Michael Baumstark , who like Reinhold converted to Catholicism, was his brother; the economist Dr. Eduard Baumstark his uncle.

After finishing school, Baumstark studied at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . Then (1857) Baumstark got a job as a magistrate in the Baden state service. As such, he married Clementine Beck and had a son with her; the later orientalist Carl Anton Baumstark . Baumstark lived and worked in Konstanz , where he was appointed district judge in 1864.

In 1869 Baumstark converted from Protestantism to Catholicism in Beuron . As a follower of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel he remained connected to him throughout his life. Politically, as a member of the Baden state parliament of the center party , Baumstark has to be counted among the first German parliamentarians who consciously stood up for the church and defended its rights. From 1869 to 1870 and from 1879 to 1882 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly .

After the re-establishment of the German Empire in 1870, which he welcomed with enthusiasm, Baumstark turned into a partisan of Otto von Bismarck . As such, Baumstark became a vehement opponent of the "center". He resigned from his party in 1882 and tried to mediate between state and church in the Kulturkampf .

Therefore, hostile by the ultramontanes , he resigned his political offices in 1882. He withdrew from politics and devoted himself increasingly to his writing ambitions. Baumstark wrote most of his literary work under the pseudonyms "Lukianos Dendrosthenes", "Klementine Beck" and "Stabilis". During this time he also emerged as a translator of various works by Miguel de Cervantes and Pedro Calderón de la Barca .

In 1879 he published what is probably the first biography of Bartolomé de Las Casas in German. Until 1968 it was probably the only biography of Las Casas in German.

In 1880 Baumstark was transferred to Achern as chief magistrate and from 1897 he was brought to Mannheim as president of the regional court . Various groups repeatedly pushed Baumstark to a political office, but in the new elections in 1882 he was not given a new mandate. Since he had resolutely declared himself against the activities of the Catholic People's Party in Baden, this is not surprising.

He was buried on February 1, 1900 in the cemetery in Kenzingen , the birthplace of his wife.

Reinhold Baumstark is the father of the orientalist and liturgist Anton Baumstark jun.

Works

Church-political writings

  • Thoughts of a Protestant on the papal invitation to reunite with the Roman Catholic Church. (Regensburg 1868, 13th edition 1869) Digitized version of the 10th edition, 1869
  • The Catholic People's Party in Baden and its relationship to the war against France , Freiburg 1870 digitized
  • The first German Reichstag and the interests of the Catholic Church (Freiburg 1871) digitized
  • Purgatory Talks (5th edition, Freiburg 1872); Pseudonym: Lukianos Dendrosthenes digitized
  • The Restoration of Catholic Pastoral Care in the Grand Duchy of Baden (Freiburg 1880)
  • Plus ultra! Fate of a German Catholic 1869-82 (Strasbourg 1883)
  • Our ways to the Catholic Church (2nd edition, Freiburg 1871, together with his brother Hermann Michael Baumstark) Digitized

Literary and historical writings

  • My trip to Spain. 2nd edition, Regensburg 1869 digitized
  • Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas. Freiburg 1871 digitized
  • O'Connell. Freiburg 1873
  • Columbus. Freiburg 1873
  • Leopold I. 1873 digitized
  • Cervantes. 1875
  • Philip II of Spain. 1875
  • Spanish national literature in the age of the Habsburg kings. Cologne 1877 digitized
  • Thomas More. Freiburg 1879
  • Bartholomew de las Casas. Bishop of Chiapa. Freiburg 1879

Translations

  • Miguel de Cervantes: Model novellas (Regensburg 1868, 2 vols.)
  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca: Lady Kobold (Vienna 1869)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography in the Baden state parliament protocols
  2. ^ David August Rosenthal : Convert pictures from the 19th century , p. 634.
personal data
SURNAME Strong as a tree, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dendriosthenes, Lukianos (pseudonym); Beck, Klementine (pseudonym); Stabilis (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, publicist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1900
Place of death Mannheim