Albert Kalthoff

Albert Kalthoff ( born March 5, 1850 in Barmen, † May 11 1906 in Bremen ) was a German Reform theologian, philosopher, and founder and the first chairman of the German Monist.

Life

Albert Kalthoff was the son of the master dyer Peter Ludwig Kalthoff and his wife Wilhelmine Kalthoff, born Vekselberg, to the world, and grew up in a conservative- the pietistic milieu attributable parents house. He studied from 1869 in Berlin theology. At the same time he worked as a deacon at the Church of St. George and looked after the children's service and care for the poor. During the Franco-German War of 1870/1871 he worked as a military chaplain. In 1874 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The question of the metaphysical foundation of morality, with special reference to Schleiermacher studied at the University of Halle, married the painter Anna Franz ( 1853-1878 ) and was appointed assistant pastor at the Berlin St. Mark's Church. On 24 January 1875 he was ordained in the church of St. Mark. After clashes with the church leadership of the Evangelical Church of the older provinces of Prussia and the Konsistorialpräsidenten Immanuel Hegel for criticizing the pietistic orthodoxy, he was transferred yet 1875 Nickern at Züllichau. There he met Eugenie Schulz (1855-1884), his second wife, and married them in 1878. According renewed clashes with the old Prussian Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council ( EOK ) Kalthoff was suspended on May 9, 1878.

After the suspension, he moved to Steglitz and worked as a freelance journalist and speaker for the " Protestant Reform Association ". In 1881 he ran unsuccessfully in the Rhineland for the left-liberal German Progress Party. In 1884 he was elected pastor of a Reformed church in Rheinfelden near Basel.

1888 he was appointed second preacher in the Bremen church of St. Martini, 1894, he moved there for the first preacher. At times, he was also Director of the Spiritual Ministry of Bremen. In 1889 he married his third wife Emma Linne ( 1864-1908 ). He founded in 1891 the " Workers' Educational Association Lessing " and had the deputies in the Bremen Parliament Friedrich Ebert excellent contacts to social democracy. In January 1903, he founded the Bremen branch of the German Peace Society and was its chairman. In 1904 he invited the first female Methodist preacher in the United States and women's rights activist Anna Howard Shaw to preach at St. Martin's Church.

1906 Bremer strained seven pastors a method of " impeachment of atheism " to. He took over in the same year the chair of the German Monist. In the same year he died.

Work and assessment

Cold Hoff's work was in line of search for the unity of theological discourse, ecclesiastical existence and social responsibility, as he sought to link theory and practice. He was an exponent of the Bremen radicalism between liberal and positive theology. He first showed a close to the philosophy of history of Marx and negated here as part of the life of Jesus research first the historicity of Jesus Christ in the adoption of a Christ idea of a social movement of the first communities to be world view developed into a theosophy with an enthusiasm for Friedrich Nietzsche.

The Weser-Kurier wrote in 1950 about Kalthoff of a " man of prophetic timeliness". The historian John Abresch marked him as " enfant terrible in long robes, " and in church circles he was the - called " Zarathustra Pastor of Bremen". "Protest theologians today as Eugen Drewermann " says Jürgen Kaube " take each his form from rather pale. "

Publications

  • The question of the metaphysical foundation of morality, studied with special reference to Schleiermacher. (Dissertation ), Halle, 1874.
  • Speech for the defense of the pastor Dr. K .... against the accusation of the Royal Consistory of the Province of Brandenburg. Schwiebus 1878.
  • The life of Jesus. Speeches in the Protestant Reform -Verein zu Berlin. Berlin 1880.
  • The latest measure to combat Judaism. In 1880.
  • The Office of NT.s. Inaugural sermon. Bremen, 1888.
  • Charles Kingsley. In 1892.
  • Schleiermacher legacy to our time. Religious speeches. Braunschweig 1896.
  • At the turn of the century sermons on the social struggles of our time. Berlin 1898.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche and the cultural problems of our time. Lectures, Berlin 1900.
  • The philosophy of the Greeks, represented on cultural-historical basis. Berlin 1901.
  • The religious problems in Goethe's Faust. Berlin 1901.
  • The Christ - problem. Baselines to a social theology. Leipzig 1902.
  • D. Thikötter and the problem of Christ. Bremen 1903.
  • Religious belief. Speeches. Leipzig 1903.
  • The rise of Christianity. New contributions to the problem of Christ. Leipzig 1904.
  • What do we know about Jesus? A settlement with W. Bousset. Berlin 1904.
  • Zarathustra sermons. Talking about the moral conception of life of Friedrich Nietzsche. Jena, 1904, * The religion of the moderns, Jena / Leipzig 1905.
  • School Culture and State. Leipzig 1905.
  • Modern Christianity. Berlin, nd ( 1906).

Posthumously

  • The age of the Reformation. Posthumous sermons. Edited by F. Steudel, Jena, 1907.
  • Future ideals. Posthumous sermons. With a life sketch edited with a biographical introduction by F. Steudel, Jena, 1907.
  • From the inner life. Posthumous sermons. Edited by F. Steudel, Jena, 1908.
  • From domestic life. Edited by F. Steudel, Jena, 1909.
  • People and art. Speeches and essays. Edited by Bremer Goethe Federation, Bremen 1910.
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