Karl Christian Ulmann

Karl Christian Ulmann ( Latvian: Karlis Ulmanis Kristināns; born February 3, 1793 in Riga, † October 8, 1871 in Walk, Livonia) was a Baltic German theologian.

Life

After several years as a country parson Ulmann worked from 1835 as Professor of Practical Theology at the Imperial University of Dorpat to and held there from 1839 to 1841 the Rector. 1842 banished from Dorpat, he headed from 1844 as a school board in Riga popular education. In 1856 he was appointed by Tsar Alexander II as vice president of the St. Petersburg General Consistory for the highest minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Russian Empire and was honored with the title of bishop. Ulmann went into retirement in 1868.

Honors

  • Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology of the University of Dorpat
  • Honorary citizen of Riga

Works

  • Collection of sacred songs for church comrades of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, 1843.
  • The gegewartige relationship between the Protestant community brother to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Livonia and Ehstland, 1862.
  • Latvian dictionary, 1872.
  • German - Latvian Dictionary, 1880.
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