Leopold Otto
Leopold Martin Otto, self-designation Leopold von Otto ( born November 2, 1819 in Warsaw, † September 22, 1882 in Warsaw ) was a Lutheran theologian, exponent of Lutheran orthodoxy in Poland as well as a church hymn writers.
He wrote a book about the German Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw.
Life and work
Leopold Otto was born as the son of the painter and officer in the Grand Army of Jacob Otto and Thekla Koeltz. He made his secondary education in 1839 at the practical- educational high school in Lissa and took 1840 at the University of Dorpat the study of economics on. From 1841 to 1844 Otto also studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the University of Berlin.
On March 17, 1844 was his ordination to the spiritual ministry in the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland. After Otto went into the Vicariate by Kalisch and took his first pastorate in 1844 Petrikau.
Already in 1849 Otto moved to Warsaw, where he remained until 1866. This was followed up in 1875 the perception of a pastorate in Cieszyn, before he returned to Warsaw, where he remained until his death.
Leopold Otto was married three times. In his first marriage he married in 1850 Emilie Isabella Marie Linde († 1857), daughter of Samuel Gottlieb Linde, the creator of the Polish dictionary.
Leopold Otto was a deeply devout Christian, an educated theologian and a very popular preacher. As an orthodox Lutherans he fought against rationalism in his church and especially its exponent, the General Superintendent Adolf Theodor Julius Ludwig. He and his supporters succeeded in banishing the Catechism Bromberger and directed by Louis rationalist hymnal of 1842 from the Church's life succeeded.
1881 presented Pastor v. Otto in his dedication for his 1882 book printed in Warsaw on the town of Augsburg Confession in Warsaw a continuation book in question ( he died in 1882).
Otto was also regarded as the "father of Polish Evangelizismus ", which took the view that still need to transform German Augsburg Church in a Polish language in her robe to then drive mission in the Polish Catholic people can. He represented his ideas from 1863 to 1882 in the monthly journal he edited Polish Zwiastun Ewangeliczny ( " Protestant messenger "). His supporters - among them the later General Superintendent Juliusz guy - tried in his mind, the Augsburg church remodel into a uniquely Polish, but did not achieve the desired success.
Otto Leopold was an avid " Polish patriot " ( against the Russian Tsardom ) and almost fanatical activist. So he took as a champion of the Polish January Uprising 1863-1864 on its preparations active part. However, its often carried out in the underground rooms of the Warsaw St. Trinity Church almost conspiratorial meetings were the Russian authorities not hidden: in October 1861 he was arrested and imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel. In intercession of Count Aleksander Wielkopolski, head of the civil administration, he was released, but he walked away from Warsaw. It was proposed by the Prussian side for service in the East Prussian Masuria and stood from 1866 to 1875 in Cieszyn Silesia in the service of the people part. In 1875 he went as the second pastor to Warsaw, where he died in 1882.
Works
- Treatises: The Jesuits in Poland
- The Lord's Prayer. Nine sermons, 1855
- The law of God in ten sermons, 1863
- Resumes by Martin Luther, Andrzej Frycz - Modrzewski Jan Ostoróg and Valerian Krasinski
- Outline of logic and metaphysics of Johann Eduard Erdmann, 1844
- Augsburg Confession, 1852
- Contribution to the history of the Evangelical-Augsburg church in Warsaw, Leopold von Otto, Pastor, 1882
Of his numerous hymns found six inclusion in the hymnal of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church of 1956
Honors
- Leopold Otto was in 1865 awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig
- His home town of Warsaw put him in the Protestant cemetery on September 28, 1887 Memorial