Wilhelm Neander

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Gottlieb Wilhelm Neander (* December 23, 1891 July / January 4,  1892 greg. In Belowesch, Chernigov Gouvernement ; † February 23, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German-Baltic theologian and church historian .

Life

Neander was a son of Theodor Neander (1850-1907), the Evangelical Lutheran pastor of Belowesch. 1902–1909 he attended the St. Petersburg school . After studying Protestant theology in Dorpat , he was ordained in Goldingen on January 19, 1919 and appointed vicar of the Goldingen diocese. In the same year he became vicar of the two German parishes at St. Trinitatis in Mitau , and in 1921 pastor of the German city parish at St. Trinitatis in Mitau. After the Baltic Germans were resettled in the Warthegau in 1939 , he became pastor in Stettin - Hökendorf in 1940 , then second interim pastor in Gnesen and also in 1940 second pastor there. Fled to the West after the end of the war, in 1945 he was entrusted with the provision of the pastor's office in Altenbruch . In 1948 he became pastor of the second pastorate there. On January 1, 1959, he retired.

As a church historian, Neander dealt particularly with the German-Baltic church history.

Works

  • One hundred years of "Altona" (Jelgavā 1937)
  • The German ev.-luth. Latvian municipalities in the year of resettlement in 1939 (Hamburg 1966)
  • Lexicon of Baltic German theologians since 1920 (Hannover-Döhren 1967)

literature

  • Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover 8/1968, p. 70.

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personal data
SURNAME Neander, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neander, Gottlieb Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Belowesch, Chernigov Governorate
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1968
Place of death Hamburg