Rudolf Winkler (clergyman)

Adam Rudolf Winkler also Adam Rudolf Winkler (born September 1 ^{. Jul} / 13. September 1855 ^greg. In Reval ; † June 24 ^jul. / 7. July 1917 ^greg. Ibid ) was a Baltic German clergyman .

Life

origin

Winkler was a member of a pastor's family that had been resident in Estonia since the 17th century and that was possibly elevated to the imperial nobility as early as 1650 , and in any case to the Russian nobility in 1838 . His parents were the doctor of medicine and practicing physician Alexander Winkler and Annette Luise, geb. Knüpffer, a sister of the architect Rudolf Otto von Knüpffer (1831–1900.)

Career

Winkler received home lessons before he attended the cathedral school in Reval from 1864 to 1875 . In 1876 he was a tutor in Kaltenbrunn and in the same year began his theology studies in Dorpat , where he was a member of Estonia . The course was followed by a year of probation with Pastor Hörschelmann in Karusen and Pastor Bruhns in Nissi . Also in 1882 was still Estonian parish vicar and pastor- adjunct in Wesenberg . Then from 1885 to 1901 he was pastor in St. Juergens in Harrien . Since 1901 Winkler was pastor of the cathedral in Reval and since 1904 also provost of the Ostharrischer Kreis. In 1910 he became assistant to the consistory and was a member of the board of the German Association in Estonia until 1911 . From 1913 to 1914 he worked as a religion teacher at the cathedral school.

In 1915 he was exiled to Irkutsk in Siberia and was only able to return to Reval in the year of his death.

In 1900/1901 Winkler was director of the historical section of the Estonian Literary Society and since 1907 a corresponding member of the Kurland Society for Literature and Art . He wrote and published several treatises on the Estonian church history of the Swedish era.

family

He married Marie Hörschelmann in 1885 . Several daughters and sons emerged from the marriage, including Theodor Ferdinand Alexander Winkler .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Maximilian Gritzner : The nobility of the Russ. Baltic provinces , (= J. Siebmachers's large Wappenbuch , Volume 3, Section 11), Part II of the non-enrolled Adel , Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1901, p. 254 ( digitized in the SUB Göttingen )
↑ ALBUM ESTONORUM No. 807.

personal data
SURNAME	Winkler, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Winkler, Adam Rudolf (full name); Winkler, Adam Rudolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Baltic German clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH	September 13, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Reval
DATE OF DEATH	July 7, 1917
Place of death	Reval

[1] Maximilian Gritzner : The nobility of the Russ. Baltic provinces , (= J. Siebmachers's large Wappenbuch , Volume 3, Section 11), Part II of the non-enrolled Adel , Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1901, p. 254 ( digitized in the SUB Göttingen )

[2] ALBUM ESTONORUM No. 807.