Waldemar Sunday

Waldemar Sonntag (born August 25, 1844 in Rehsen , † January 1, 1912 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Sonntag studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Halle and Berlin . After the Franco-Prussian War , he was appointed as a deacon in Naumburg (Saale) in 1871 . He held this office until 1882.

This year Sunday was brought to the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen as a preacher . Also involved in church politics, he was elected president of the local Protestant association there in 1886 and led this association until 1898. In this function, he was co-editor of the newspaper Deutsches Protestantenblatt between 1887 and 1889 ; between 1889 and 1895 then under sole responsibility.

Works (selection)

• Lay sermons. Loose sheets of wisdom. 3 volumes, 1884/89.
• The funeral. Cult of the dead of old and new times and the question of burial. A study of cultural history. 1878.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Graf :  Sunday, Waldemar. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 796-807.
• Sunday, Waldemar . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 9 : Schlumberger – Thiersch . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-096502-5 , p. 515 .