Rudolf Schulz (theologian, 1807)

Rudolf Schulz ( Latvian Rūdolfs Šulcs ; born August 5, 1807 in Linden-Birsgallen , Kurland Governorate ; † February 24, 1866 in Mitau ) was a Baltic German theologian .

Life

Rudolf's parents were Conrad Schulz and Constanze, geb. Mylich. He initially received home lessons and then from 1823 to 1826 attended the illustrious grammar school in Mitau. From 1827 to 1830 he studied in Dorpat . In 1830 he found a job at the church in Mitau, but worked from 1831 to 1832 as a tutor in the Goldingen office . From 1833 to 1840 he was in Linden-Birsgallen. He worked as a pastor in Lippaicken in Courland from 1841 to 1849 , and then from 1849 to 1866 as the Latvian city preacher of St. Anne's Church and as a German preacher of the hospital or poor church in Mitau. In this role, Schulz also worked at the prison and the city charity.

He had married Eveline Schulz in 1833.

From 1849 to 1866 Schulz was editor of the " Latweeschu Awises ", also from 1850 to 1856 of the Courland Agricultural Information and from 1864 to 1865 of the " People's Gazette for Town and Country of the Baltic Provinces ". Between 1854 and 1864 he was President of the Latvian Literary Society . He also published maps in Latvian.

Schulz was honored with the Golden Preacher Pectoral Cross in 1865 . He rendered outstanding services to the education of the Latvian people in their mother tongues, but was an opponent of the Latvian national movement.

literature

• Ernst August von Raison : In memory of the late Pastor Schulz zu Mitau, presented at the meeting of the Latvian Literary Society in 1866. , 1868 in the magazine, Volume 14, 1 piece, pp. 1-8.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Rudolf Schulz. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. Dorpat 1889, p. 512, no.7024.
2. ↑ Selection in the Latvian National Library