Theophil Gaehtgens

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Theophil Gaehtgens (born November 23, 1847 in Zarnau, Livonia , † April 14, 1919 in Riga ) was a Baltic German clergyman and the last Livonian general superintendent .

Life

His father Karl died early; his mother Emilie geb. Bidder, ran a girls' school in Wenden . Theophil attended the Birkenruh college ; then he studied from 1865 to 1869 theology at the University of Dorpat . Here he was a member of the Fraternitas Rigensis . After graduating, he worked as a private tutor, studied in Leipzig from 1871 to 1872 and completed a probationary year in Smilten , where he also became a pastor's adjunct. In 1874 he took over the pastorate in Lasdohn , from where he also looked after the Latvian diaspora communities in the Vitebsk governorate . From 1882 he worked in Riga: until 1885 as senior pastor at the St. John's Church and part-time as secretary of the Latvian Literary Society , then until 1906 as senior pastor at the cathedral . From 1885 to 1890 he was also Superintendent of Riga, from 1893 to 1906 first provost . From 1906 he was general superintendent and vice-president of the Livonian consistory. From 1916 to 1917 he was deported to Saratov , from 1917/18 he lived in Dorpat . He was removed from office by the Bolsheviks in February 1919.

Gaehtgens was married to Elisabeth Guleke from 1874; his children include the writer Else Frobenius and the physician Walter Gaehtgens (1880–1958).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Album Academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat. No. 7937
  2. ↑ album fratrum Rigensium 1823-1979. Hechthausen 1891, no.593
  3. ↑ Jürgen von Hehn : The Latvian literary society and the Latvian community. Königsberg / Berlin 1938, p. 155
  4. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Gaehtgens, Walter. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
personal data
SURNAME Gaehtgens, Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German clergyman and last Livonian general superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Zarnau, Livonia
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1919
Place of death Riga