Rudolf Faltin

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Rudolf Faltin

Rudolf Faltin , actually Ernst Karl Rudolph Faltin (born May 21, jul. / 2. June  1830 greg. In Riga ; † 27. January 1918 in Riga) was a Protestant pastor and missionary .

Life

Rudolf Faltin was the son of the veterinarian Johann Friedrich Leopold Faltin and his wife, Baroness Juliane Dorothea von Vietinghoff called Scheel. His brother was Alexander Faltin .

From 1852 to 1855 he studied theology at the University of Dorpat . He then worked for two years from 1856 to 1858 as a parish assistant in Arkhangelsk in the evangelical parish before he received his ordination in Riga in 1859 . He went to Kishinew in the former Bessarabia , (today Chișinău in Moldova ), where he performed numerous spiritual tasks. So he was a military chaplain working for the Russian military stationed there. He was also a Protestant parish pastor of the parish of the Bessarabian Germans in Kishinew. He looked after widely dispersed diaspora communities in the parish in central, western and northern Bessarabia. In addition, he was a religion teacher at the grammar school in Kishinew. In 1890 he was appointed provost of the First South Russian Provost District of the Evangelical Church, which was part of the consistory in St. Petersburg. As a result, he was the pastor of all pastors who were active in the Bessarabian and Chersonian Lutheran congregations. He also worked - often successfully - as a missionary to the Jews in Russian Jewish communities.

In 1903 , Rudolph Faltin retired for reasons of age and moved back to Riga. His grave is in Mitau .

family

Rudolph Faltin was married three times:

  • First marriage: on July 1, 1856 with Luitgarde Erasmus (born November 5, 1828 in Riga, † July 2, 1862 in Kishinew); There were four children from this marriage: Rudolph († 1863), Betty, Luita (* 1860) and Johannes (* 1862; † 1863);
  • Second marriage: on September 16, 1863 in Kishinew with Adelaide Katharina Bernardazzi (born September 15, 1829 in Pyatigorsk , Stavropol region , † July 27, 1887 in Odessa ); from this marriage comes a son: Herrmann Immanuel (born October 3, 1864 in Kishinew; † October 22, 1932 in Munich );
  • Third marriage: on June 19, 1889 in Riga with Mathilde Siering (born January 31, 1862 in Riga, baptized in St. Petri ).

literature

  • Cornelia Schlarb: Tradition in Transition - The Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in Bessarabia 1814–1940 , Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-18206-9 , p. 36.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the Jesus Church in Riga
personal data
SURNAME Faltin, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor and missionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1918
Place of death Riga