Wilhelm Baur (theologian)

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Wilhelm Baur

Friedrich Wilhelm Baur (born March 16, 1826 in Lindenfels (Odenwald), † April 18, 1897 in Koblenz ) was a Protestant theologian and folk writer .

Life

Wilhelm Baur was the son of the forester Ludwig Baur (1790–1857). His brothers included the politician Ludwig Baur and the theologians Gustav Baur and Karl Baur (1818–1888). He attended grammar school in Darmstadt and held a lot of friendship "as the best means of ennobling the mind"; at the same time he wrote poetry. In Giessen he studied theology, where he was under the influence of his brother Gustav and the philosopher Moritz Carrière . During his studies in 1844 he became a member of the Allemannia Gießen fraternity . After a few years in the Friedberg seminary and as a private tutor he became vicar in Arheilgen in 1852 and in Bischofsheim (Mainspitze) in 1853 . He had his first pastor's position in Ettinghausen in Central Hesse from 1855, and in 1862 he moved to the neighboring town of Ruppertsburg . 1865 it appointed Johann Hinrich Wichern as pastor of the St. Anschar Chapel in Hamburg and director of the local City Mission . In 1872 he became the fourth court and cathedral preacher in Berlin . In 1881 he was promoted to the second cathedral preacher position and in 1879 he became senior consistorial advisor and in 1881 provost of the Heiligengrabe monastery . In 1883 he was appointed general superintendent of the old Prussian provincial church of the Rhine province , based in Koblenz. He died shortly after submitting his resignation letter.

As early as 1874, Baur had bought the former parsonage (today's Haus Baureneck ) in his birthplace Lindenfels , which he used as a retreat during his time in Koblenz. In the city, which honored him with honorary citizenship in 1877, he donated a kindergarten, a poor house and a hospital. Wilhelm-Baur-Straße still reminds of him today.

Baur was a very prolific writer and published several popular biographies in addition to sermon and devotional volumes. With Emil Frommel and Rudolf Kögel he founded the yearbook Neue Christoterpe (Christian joy ) in 1879 .

From 1855 Baur was married to the court lady Meta de Bétaz (1828–1909), who originally came from a family from Vaud . The couple had two sons, including Gustav Baur (* 1857), Royal Prussian Lieutenant Colonel and Castle Captain at Schoenberg Castle . He was the father of Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Baur de Betaz .

Baur was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1877 . He was a member of the Central Committee for Internal Mission .

Fonts (selection)

  • The hymn in its history and meaning. To illuminate the hymn book distress in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. A wake-up call for the educated in the community. Brönner, Frankfurt a. M. 1852 ( digitized version ).
  • Life of the Freiherr vom Stein . Besser, Gotha 1860 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst Moritz Arndt's life, deeds and opinions, along with some of his spiritual and fatherland songs. A book for the German people. Association for the distribution of good and cheap folk writings, Zwickau 1861 (5th edition, Hamburg 1882).
  • Images of history and life from the renewal of religious life in the German Wars of Liberation. Agency of the Rauhen Haus, Hamburg 1864 (2 vols., 4th ed. 1884).
    • Religious life in Germany, during the wars of independence. London 1870.
  • The Princess Wilhelm of Prussia . A Christian image of life from the German Wars of Liberation. Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1864 (new edition 1886).
  • The German Protestant rectory. Müller, Bremen 1878 (3rd edition 1884)
  • Friedrich Perthes (2nd edition, Karlsruhe 1880)
  • Pictures of life from the history of the Church and the fatherland. Müller, Bremen 1887
  • Collected Writings. Müller, Bremen 1898 ff.
    • Volume 1: Christian Men and Women of Ancient and Modern Times. 1989.
    • Volume 2: From God's World and God's Kingdom. 1900.
    • Volume 3: From the source of truth and the sea of ​​love. 1901.
    • Volume 4: The German Protestant rectory. Its foundation, its development and its existence. 1902.
  • Life memories. With an introduction and explanations by Karl Esselborn . Self-published, Darmstadt 1911.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, L. Allemannia. No. 3.
personal data
SURNAME Baur, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baur, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and popular writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenfels
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1897
Place of death Koblenz