Wilfried Spinner
Wilfried Spinner (born October 12, 1854 in Bonstetten near Zurich ; died August 31, 1918 in Weimar ) was a Swiss theologian and missionary.
life and work
Wilfried Spinner spent his youth in his father's parishes, Bonstetten and Fällanden. After studying theology at the University of Zurich and being ordained in 1877, he took over the pastoral position in the village of Dinhard in the Winterthur district . In 1884 he was a co-founder of the “General Evangelical Protestant Missions Association” (AEPM), which emerged from the liberal theology of the 19th century.
In 1885 he traveled his first missionary to Japan and founded the German Evangelical Church in Tokyo, and in 1886 in Yokohama. But he was also interested in the religiosity of the Japanese population. He obtained pictures of popular religious figures, places of pilgrimage and paths of faith and used them for religious-historical studies.
In 1891 Wilfried Spinner returned to Europe. In 1892 he married the Swiss Bertha Stoll and worked from 1892 to 1896 as a pastor in Ilmenau (Thuringia). Protected by Grand Duke Carl Alexander , he was promoted to general superintendent and court preacher of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach in 1896 . He held this office until his death in 1918.
In 1891 the University of Zurich Spinner earned his doctorate. theol. hc
literature
- Mareile Flitsch (eds.), Tomoe Irene Maria Steineck, Martina Wernsdörfer, Raji C. Steineck: WegZeichen: Japanese cult and pilgrimage images; the Wilfried Spinner (1854–1918) collection . Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich, Stuttgart 2014. ISBN 978-3-8979-0426-2 .
- Manuel Schwarz: "Send the most capable and most scientific to Japan" The missionary Wilfried Spinner under the grand ducal protectorate of Carl Alexander. In: Franziska Bomski and Helmut Th. Seemann, u. a. (Ed.): Mens et manus: Art and Science at the Courts of the Ernestines, Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1819-9 .
Web links
- Werner Raupp : WilfriedSpinner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 8, 2013 , accessed August 25, 2020 .
- https://www.thueringer-wald.com/urlaub-wandern-winter/nachricht-163436-alexander-ilmenau-163436.htm
- Short biography, Zurich
Remarks
- ↑ The collection is now in the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crazy, Wilfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss missionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonstetten |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1918 |
| Place of death | Weimar |