Rudolf Dulon

Rudolph DULON ( born April 30, 1807 in Stendal, † April 13, 1870 in Rochester (New York)) was a German theologian, educator and democratic revolutionary.

Biography

DULON, from a French / Swiss noble family, was the son of a postal director of the family of the flutist Friedrich Ludwig DULON. He studied theology at the University of Halle. In 1831 he was rector in courtship, in 1836 preacher in the fins of Osterburg and a preacher from 1843 German Reformed Church in Magdeburg. Here he worked in the internal church opposition group Friends of Light, an association of Protestants. He represented religious positions of the Supra Naturalismuses and the democratic radicals, partly also in the sense of Pierre -Joseph Proudhon.

On 15 June 1848 he was elected second pastor at Bremen Church of Our Lady. First, he considered himself politically nor back, but was then the leading representative in Bremen at the radical democrats in the time of the German Revolution of 1848 / 49th He was editor of the Daily Chronicle and the alarm clock. In 1849 he released his two-volume magnum opus from the struggle for peoples freedom. In November 1849, he granted to Arnold Ruge ( 1802-1880 ) of the radical left in Frankfurt am Main and a short time chief of the Berlin reform right to stay in the church before the threat of arrest and brought him under the march poet Hermann Allmers. From his exile in Brighton Ruge wrote on for DULON in its day - Chronicle until it was banned on 20 May 1851. DULON was also supported by the suffragette Mary minder man, the 1851/52 various anonymous writings wrote for him.

Some of his church members sued the militant clergy in 1851 because of his teachings, but the majority of the community supported him. After the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen to 1851/52 would strike down the democratic movement, he was dismissed on the basis of advice from the theology faculty of the University of Heidelberg on April 19, 1852 by the Senate.

DULON first emigrated to the then British Heligoland, then in 1853 to emigrate to the United States. He became pastor of an independent congregation in New York City. He published a number of works for the dissemination of a free religion. In 1855 he bought the Feldner School in New York. From 1866 until his death, it was a junior high school in Rochester (New York).

His daughter married the Elise DULON from Baden -derived, later Civil War General Franz Sigel (1824-1902), who taught at the school from time to time DULON. She is buried in the Bronx, New York.

Honors

• The Dulonweg in Bremen- Obervieland was named after him.

Works

• From the struggle for peoples freedom. A reading book for German 's people. Geisler, Bremen 1849-50.
• The day has dawned. A.D. Geisler, Bremen 1852.
• From America School, German School, American School and German - American School. Winter, Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1866.