Hermann Alexander (1811–77); b. Walbeck, near Elsieben, Germany.; educated at Halle; Lutheran pastor at Süpplingen; opposed Prussian Union and Lichtfreunde ((Ger. “friends of light”). Popular name of Protestantische Freunde, organized 1841 at Gnadau, Germany, by liberal theologians; gained support of many schoolteachers; objective: to defend the Enlightenment); joined Breslau Syndicate; active in Wernigerode, Wollin, Breslau, and in Basedow, Mecklenburg.
Birth
27 AUG 1811
Walbeck bei Eisleben, Mansfelder Gebirgskreis, Merseburg, Sachsen[1]
26.01.1851 Sup. Pistorius wird in Wollin als Pastor dieser Parochie von Sup. Julius Nagel eingeführt
1858 Kirchenrat und Superintendent in Breslau; 1.ter besoldeter Kirchenrat (ohne Gemeinde)
1863 Pastor in Basedow bei Malchow/Mecklenburg Präpositus in Basedow[6]
Footnotes
Prussian Union
September 27, 1817, Frederick William III announced the union of the Lutherans and Reformed into 1 evangelical Christian congregation at the court and among the military in Potsdam in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the Reformation and appealed for voluntary union of Lutherans and Reformed in all of Prussia and elsewhere. Several smaller German states followed suit. But Lutherans, led by C. Harms, objected. In the resulting controversy the issues were muddied and compulsory measures adopted: in 1821 candidates were required at their examination to pledge loyalty to the union; the Kirchenagende für die Hofund Domkirche in Berlin (drawn up 1821, pub. 1822 on personal initiative of the king) gave rise to the Agenda Controversy (F. D. E. Schleiermacher was among those who challenged the right of the king to act with authority in the area of liturgics); in 1823 ministers were pledged to the confessional writings of the united evangelical church insofar as these confessions were in harmony; in 1830 it was decreed that “Evangelical” be substituted for the distinctive names “Lutheran” and “Reformed”; in 1832 the union was enforced in the army and the Bonn faculty; the new agenda was prescribed 1834.
Reaction against the union had found practical expression beginning 1830 in formation of the Evangelical Lutheran (Old Lutheran) Church, which led to an 1834 cabinet order recognizing both Lutheran and Reformed confessions and to Frederick William IV's “Generalkonzession” 1845; an 1852 cabinet order said the union was not doctrinal but administrative. But enactments 1853 and later re-enforced the Prussian Union so as to make it practically also doctrinal.[7]
Sources
↑ Germany, Lutheran Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1564-1938
↑ Saxony, Prussia, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1760-1890
↑ "Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP6K-6BR4 : 28 March 2023), Ernst Ferdinand Gottlob Pistorius in entry for Hermann Alexander Pistorius, 19 Apr 1843; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Marriage, Ampfurth, Wanzleben, Sachsen, Preußen, Deutschland, , German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.
↑ Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Hamburg; Lutherische Pastoren vor 1945; Informationen über Pastoren und andere aktive Personen der Evangelisch Lutherischen Kirche in Preußen sowie Vorgängerkirchen der SELK im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, ordiniert vor 1945.
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