Michael Baumgarten

Michael Baumgarten ( born March 25, 1812 in Haselsdorf, Holstein, † July 21, 1889 in Rostock ) was a Protestant theologian.

Life

Michael Baumgarten came from an old Haseldorfer peasant family. His parents were the owners of the farm and reeve Hinrich Baumgarten (1774-1853) and his wife Anna Catharina (1790-1832), daughter of Johann Hauschild. Baumgarten attended school in Altona and studied since 1832 Protestant theology at the universities of Kiel and Berlin, and habilitated in 1839 as a lecturer in Kiel. At first strongly influenced by pietism, he approached the conservative theology of Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann. He became in 1846 pastor of Schleswig, where he 1848, the national movement against the German population supported the integration in the Danish part of the country. He had to flee from Schleswig in 1850 and soon became a full professor of theology at Rostock.

Strictly bible believer, but hostile to all hierarchical nature, Baumgarten was soon with the OKR in conflict. When he was zealous on a parish meeting in Parchim against the introduction ceremonial legislative principles in the Sunday celebration and guileless a test question was whether a revolution from the Holy Scriptures be justified, he was discharged from the theological examination committee on 5 November 1856. On January 6, 1858, he was dismissed under disregard of the prescribed procedure for such cases on the basis of written by Otto Carsten Krabbe Konsistorialerachtens, which accused him of, among other combat set in the Concord church doctrine and broken oath angelobter obligations of his professorship.

Due to the subsequently published by him fonts A religious crisis in Mecklenburg (Braunschweig 1858), The ecclesial crisis in Mecklenburg (Leipzig 1861), To the friends from prison (Berlin 1862), etc. it was because of press offenses twice to imprisonment and fine convicted.

Living in Rostock had Baumgarten tirelessly through writings and public lectures for a redesign of the German Protestant Church and was until 1877 the Protestant Union chief representative of the Bible-believing direction.

From 1874 to 1881 he was a member of the Reichstag and joined as a member of the Progressive Party for the civil status laws. Baumgarten occurred in the course of his first term from the Group of the Progressive Party from, was temporarily attached Member, 1877 and 1878, the Group joined only as a guest student. Towards the end of his deputies time he stepped over to the National Liberal Party.

Works

  • Theological Commentary on the Old Testament. Kiel 1843-1844, Volume 1
  • Acts, or course of development of the Church from Jerusalem to Rome. 2nd edition, Braunschweig 1859, 2 volumes
  • The night visions of Zechariah: A prophet 's voice to the present. new edition, Braunschweig 1858
  • The story of Jesus. Braunschweig 1859
  • Schleiermacher as a theologian. Berlin 1862
  • Twelve lectures on church history to illuminate the Church's presence. Bremen 1869
  • The Protestant Association, an ensign in the German Reich. Berlin 1871
  • Contemporary Church questions in lectures. Rostock 1873
  • A crisis within the German Protestant Association. Rostock 1876
  • Lutherus redivivus, or the church's response. Frankfurt 1878
  • Doctor Martin Luther. Chapbook. Rostock 1883
  • Professor Dr. theol. Michael Baumgarten: a scooped out 45jähriger experience biographical contribution to the church question. From handwritten estate edited by Hans Hinrich Studt. 2 vols. Homann, Kiel 1891
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