Wilhelm Ross

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Wilhelm Ross. Royal Lithographic Institute, Berlin around 1850.

Wilhelm Johann Gottfried Roß (born July 7, 1772 in Isselburg ( Rhineland ); † October 27, 1854 in Alpen (Rhineland)) was a Protestant theologian and, as a general superintendent with the title of " Bishop ", the leading clergyman of the provinces of Rhineland and Westphalia of the Evangelical Church Prussia .

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Wilhelm Roß was born as the son of pastor Heinrich Gottfried Roß and Katharina Heymanns, attended grammar school in Wesel and Moers and studied theology at the University of Duisburg from Easter 1788 .

On April 10, 1793, Roß received his ordination to the ministerial office in the Reformed Church in Homberg (Rhineland) and worked there in the pastoral service until 1795. He then switched to the parish parish in Budberg and in 1817 also became superintendent of the Moers church district and president of the Jülich provincial synod -Kleve-Berg .

In 1827 Roß received an appointment to Berlin , where he initially took on a provisional position in the Ministry of Culture and then in 1828 became provost at the Nikolaikirche . In addition, he was a senior consistorial councilor.

In 1829 Wilhelm Roß was appointed general superintendent of Brandenburg Neumark and Niederlausitz and held this office until 1836.

In that year Roß moved back to his homeland as a general superintendent with the honorary title " Bishop " of the two provinces of Rhineland and Westphalia, but remained connected to Berlin through his membership in the Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Evangelical Church in Prussia from 1850 to 1854.

In 1846 he resigned as general superintendent, his successor in office in Westphalia was Franz Friedrich Graeber , in the Rhine province Johann Abraham Küpper . Wilhelm Roß was retired on March 31, 1854.

Wilhelm Roß was considered a key figure in the struggles for the Union and the agendas in the Prussian western provinces and carried out a mediating activity in the Berlin offices.

Roß had been married to Luise, daughter of a wine merchant in Werth , since September 21, 1795 († 1841).

Honors

On March 3, 1830, Wilhelm Roß was given the right to bear the title of "Count". On June 25, 1830, the Theological Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate, and on February 7, 1836 he was given the title of "Bishop".

Works

  • Inaugural sermon by Provost Ross, given on the 21st Sunday after Trinity 1828, in the St. Nikolai Church in Berlin . Heinrich Martius Wittwe, Berlin 1828.
  • The childlike, confident, active faith of Christians: a sermon delivered on the second Christmas day 1829 in the chapel of the Royal Palace in Berlin and on the orders of His Royal Majesty . Edited by W. Roß, Royal Real Ober-Consistorial-Rath, General-Superintendent and Provost of Berlin. Martius, Berlin / Unger, Berlin 1830.
  • Agende for the Protestant Church in the Royal Prussian Lands. With special provisions and additions for the Province of Westphalia and the Rhine Province . Printed in the Dietericische Buchdruckerei, Berlin 1834.
  • Sermon on the feast of the introduction of the Reformation in the Mark Brandenburg on the prescribed text Joh. 12, 35-36 delivered by Roß . Gropius, Berlin 1839.

literature

  • W. Hahn: The Bishop Roß (Nekrolog) . In: Schulblatt for the Province of Brandenburg . 20th year Wiegandt and Grieben, Berlin 1855. Digitized .
  • Albert Rosenkranz (Ed.): The Evangelical Rhineland. A Rhenish parish and pastor's book , 2 volumes (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History, No. 7), Düsseldorf 1958.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bauks : The Protestant pastors in Westphalia from the Reformation period to 1945 (= contributions to the Westphalian church history, vol. 4), Bielefeld 1980, no. 5166 ( full text ).
  • Hans-Wilhelm Rahe: Bishop Roß and the Rhenish-Westphalian Church - about the church constitution, union and agendas in pre-March Prussia. Düsseldorf 1984
  • Hermann-Peter Eberlein : Wilhelm Johann Gottfried Roß. In: Joachim Conrad , Stefan Flesch, Nicole Kuropka, Thomas Martin Schneider (Ed.): Evangelisch am Rhein. Nature and becoming of a regional church. Düsseldorf 2007, pp. 153–156.
  • Hermann-Peter Eberlein: Roß, Wilhelm Johann Gottfried. In: Michael Basse , Traugott Jähnichen , Harald Schroeter-Wittke (eds.): Protestant profiles in the Ruhr area. Five hundred life pictures from five centuries. Spenner, Kamen 2009, pp. 162-163.

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See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forewords by Rulemann Friedrich Eylert , Friedrich Ehrenberg , Daniel Amadeus Neander , Wilhelm Ross and Franz Theremin .
personal data
SURNAME Ross, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ross, Wilhelm Johann Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Isselburg , Rhineland
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1854
Place of death Alps , Rhineland