Theodor Wotschke

Theodor Wotschke actually: Theodor Otto Gustav Wotschke (born March 23, 1871 in Meseritz ; † September 11, 1939 in Pratau ) was a German historian, philosopher, Protestant theologian and teacher.

Life

Theodor was born as the son of the factory owner and businessman Berthold Wotschke († 1878) and the landowner's daughter Charlotte Triebel. After attending grammar school in Meseritz, he began studying theology and philosophy at the Universities of Halle-Wittenberg in 1890, and continued this in 1892 at the University of Berlin and later in Breslau . After he had passed his first theological exam in Posen in 1893, Michaelis attended the Protestant seminary in Wittenberg in 1895 and passed his second theological exam in 1895.

At the University of Leipzig , he received his doctorate in 1896 for Dr. phil. , was ordained as assistant pastor in Gogolin on October 31, 1897 in Posen and worked as assistant pastor and religion teacher in Ostrowo from 1900 . After he had taken over a pastorate in Santomischel in 1903 , he acquired the degree of licentiate in theology in Breslau in 1906 . In 1912 he moved to Eutzsch as a pastor and became a pastor in Pratau on May 16, 1915, where he worked until his retirement on April 1, 1937.

Wotschke, who perfectly mastered the Polish language, dealt with the history of Protestantism in Prussia, Lithuania, Silesia and Poland. Many of his essays dealt with aspects of the history of Pietism and the foundations of the Lutheran Reformation history. For this he published, among other things, in the Archive for Reformation History . For his numerous regional and national significant contributions, he received an honorary theological doctorate from the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1917 . He spent most of the last years of his life with his son's family in Piesteritz .

family

Wotschke married on August 25, 1898 in Pratau with Elisabeth Berndt (1876–1964), the daughter of the manor owner Bruno Berndt and his wife NN Hubrig. The marriage has two sons and two daughters. From the children we know:

• Johannes Wotschke (born June 20, 1899 Gogolin; † November 11, 1988 in Hanover) married. November 7, 1925 with Ilsa Schütte (1902–1993)
• Charlotte Wotschke (born September 12, 1900)
• Margarethe Wotschke (born February 2, 1902)
• Rudolf Wotschke (born April 17, 1904)

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Spruce and Erigena. Presentation and criticism of two related types of idealistic pantheism. Dissertation, Leipzig 1896.
• The correspondence between the Swiss and the Poles. Leipzig 1908.
• History of the Reformation in Poland. Association for the History of the Reformation, Leipzig 1911.
• The Reformation in the Land of Poznan , 3 volumes. Oskar Eulitz, Lissa in Prussia 1913.
• Polish students in Heidelberg. Priebatsch's publishing house, Breslau 1926.
• The great Elbe flood in 1655. Verlag Adolf Tietze, Wittenberg 1926.
• Calls for help to Switzerland. Concordia Sp. Akc, Poznan 1929.
• Pietism in Moscow. Publishing house of the Poznan Historical Society, Poznan 1930.

Essays

• On the history of the Unitarians in the market . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg Church History , Jg. 7/8 (1911–1912), pp. 161–223.
• Calov's Historia syncretistica . In: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte , vol. 36 (1916), pp. 424–458.
• The Polish Unitarians in Kreuzburg . In: Correspondence sheet of the Association for the History of the Evangelical Church of Silesia , vol. 12 (1921), pp. 1–28.
• Schleswig-Holstein and the Polish brothers . In: Writings of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History , 2nd series (contributions and communications), Vol. 8, 1926, pp. 62–87.
• Friedrich Breckling's Lower Rhine Circle of Friends . In: Monthly Issues for Catholic Church Music (MRKG), vol. 17 (1927), pp. 3–21.
• Letters from the Lower Rhine to Spener and Francke . In: Monthly books for Catholic church music , vol. 17 (1927), pp. 129–154 and 186–189.
• August Hermann Francke's Rhenish friends in their letters (1701-1724) . In: Monthly Issues for Rhenish Church History , Vol. 22 (1928), pp. 81–92, 103–123, 151–158, 175–186, 206–219, 236–251, 264–278, 308–320, 343– 350 and 366-373.
• Breckling's circle of friends in the Brandenburg region . In: Yearbook for Brandenburg Church History (JBrKG), vol. 23 (1928), pp. 134–203 and vol. 24 (1929), pp. 168–177.
• August Hermann Frankes Debora . In: Neue Kirchliche Zeitschrift , vol. 20 (1929), pp. 264–283 and 292–303.
• Spener and Francke's Rhenish friends in their letters . In: Monthly books for Catholic church music , vol. 19 (1929), pp. 321–357 and vol. 21 (1931), pp. 331–348.
• Pietism in Thuringia . In: Thüringisch-Sächsische Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kunst , vol. 18 (1929), pp. 1–55.
• Prophet Schanenfeld in Cologne . In: Monthly Issues for Rhenish Church History , vol. 27 (1933), pp. 26–28.
• Polish and Lithuanian students in Koenigsberg . In: Yearbooks for Culture and History of the Slavs New Series, Vol. 6 (1930), pp. 428–447.
• From Wittenberg church registers . In: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte (ARG), vol. 29 (1932), pp. 169–223.
• From the death of the mother of Zion Anna Eller in 1743 in Ronsdorf . In: Monthly Issues for Rhenish Church History , vol. 27 (1933), pp. 28–31.
• Rave Letters . In: Monthly Issues for Catholic Church Music , vol. 29 (1935), pp. 12–27.
• Documents on the history of Pietism in the Nordmark . In: Writings of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History , 2nd series (contributions and communications), Vol. 9, 1935, pp. 453–499.
• Pietism in the Province of Saxony . In: Journal of the Association for Church History of the Province of Saxony and the Free State of Anhalt , Jg. 37/38 (1940), pp. 38–84.

literature

• Directory of the writings of Pastor D. Dr. Theodor Otto Gustav Wotschke. In: German Scientific Journal for Poland, issue 12 (1928), pp. 163–169 ( biography and bibliography until 1928 ).
• Jaroslaw Biernaczyk: Theodor Wotschke. In: Alma Mater Ostroviensis - Book of Remembrance - Non Omnis moriar , Volume X, Ostrow Wielkopolski 2003.
• Klaus-Gunther Wesseling:  Wotschke, Theodor Otto Gustav. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 73-80.
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, Leipzig, 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02141-3 , Vol. 9, p. 457.

Web links

• Literature by and about Theodor Wotschke in the catalog of the German National Library