Rudolph Dulon

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Portrait of Rudolph Dulon by Friedrich Jentzen

Rudolph Dulon (born April 30, 1807 in Stendal , † April 13, 1870 in Rochester (New York) ) was a German theologian , educator and democratic revolutionary.

biography

Dulon, from a French-Swiss aristocratic family, was the son of a postal director from the family of the flautist Friedrich Ludwig Dulon . He studied theology at the University of Halle . In 1831 he was rector in Werben , in 1836 preacher in Flessau near Osterburg and from 1843 preacher of a German reformed church in Magdeburg . Here he worked in the inner-church opposition group Lichtfreunde , an association of Protestants. He represented religious positions of supranaturalism and those of the democratic radicals, partly in the spirit of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon .

On June 15, 1848 he was elected second pastor at the Bremen Church of Our Dear Women . At first he held back politically, but then became the leading representative in Bremen among the radical democrats during the German Revolution of 1848/49 . He was editor of the daily chronicle and the alarm clock . In 1849 he brought out his two-volume main work On the Struggle for Freedom of Nations . In November 1849 he granted Arnold Ruge (1802-1880) from the radical left in Frankfurt am Main and for a short time head of the Berlin reform a right to stay with the church before the imminent arrest and placed him with the marching poet Hermann Allmers . From his exile in Brighton , Ruge continued to write for Dulon in his daily chronicle until it was banned on May 20, 1851. Dulon was also supported by the women's rights activist Marie Mindermann , who wrote various anonymous writings for him in 1851/52.

Some of his parishioners sued the militant clergyman in 1851 for his teachings, but the majority of the congregation supported him. After the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen was able to put down the democratic movement around 1851/52, it was deposed by the Senate on April 19, 1852 on the basis of an opinion from the Theology Faculty of Heidelberg University .

Dulon first emigrated to Heligoland , then England , and then in 1853 to the USA . He became a pastor of an independent ward in New York City . He published a number of writings for the promotion of a free religion. In 1855 he bought the Feldner School in New York, which became the first German-American school in the USA. From 1866 until his death, Dulon ran a secondary school in Rochester, New York .

His daughter Elise Dulon married the later Civil War General Franz Sigel (1824–1902) from Baden , who taught at the school in Dulon for a time. She is buried in the Bronx , New York.

Honors

  • The Dulonweg in Bremen- Obervieland was named after him.

Works

  • From the struggle for freedom of the peoples. A reading book for the German people . Geisler, Bremen 1849–50.
  • The day has dawned . AD Geisler, Bremen 1852.
  • From America through school, German school, American school and German-American school . Winter, Leipzig and Heidelberg 1866.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Grobe : About freedom of the press and newspapers ; see here: [1]
personal data
SURNAME Dulon, Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dulon, Rudolf; Dulon, Christoph Joseph Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and revolutionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1870
Place of death Rochester (New York)