Johannes Burckhardt (20 October 1853 – 27 January 1914) was a German Protestant minister, who founded an organisation for female young Protestants, and for a mission at stations, '.
Life and work
Born in
Altena,
Westphalia
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, Burckhardt was the son of the Protestant minister Eduard Burckhardt (died 1886) and a great-grandson of the writer . He studied theology in
Bonn
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and
Tübingen
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. In 1880, he became '' Vereinsgeistlicher'' of the
Inner mission in
Bielefeld
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, where he collaborated closely with
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh Sr. From 1889, he was a parish minister in Berlin.
Burckhardt founded in 1893 a national organisation for young female Protestants, the ''Vorständeverband der evangelischen Jungfrauenvereine Deutschlands'', later called the ''Evangelischer Verband für die weibliche Jugend Deutschlands'' in
Barmen
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. In 1894, he founded the first Protestant ''Bahnhofsmission'' in Germany, in
Berlin
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.
In 1913/14, he built the ''Burckhardthaus'' in
Dahlem. It housed the publishing house of the same name which published the magazine ''Deutsche Mädchen-Zeitung''. Burkhard died in Dahlem.
Publications
* ''Als die lebendigen Steine. Gedanken zur Gemeindearbeit in einer Großstadtgemeinde'', M. Warneck, Berlin 1904.
* ''Die Gewinnung und Ausbildung von Berufsarbeiterinnen der Inneren Mission'', Berlin 1903.
* ''Die Gewinnung weiblicher Kräfte für die Innere Mission'', Hamburg 1905.
* "Gehe du auch hin in den Weinberg", in: Hennig, Martin (ed.): ''Wie der Meister uns in den Weinberg rief. Zeugnisse von Jesu Taten an seinen Jüngern gezeichnet von einer Reihe bekannter Vertreter der Inneren und Äußeren Mission'', Hamburg 1906, pp 21–38.
* "Der Jungfrauenvereine Bedeutung und Aufgabe für das Reich Gottes", in: ''Der Kirche, für Volk und Vaterland'', Berlin 1907.
* ''Fürsorge für die weibliche Jugend'' (magazine), 1892–1913.
Literature
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* H. B. (Henny Burckhardt): ''Johannes Burckhardt. Ein Blick in sein Leben.''. Wichern, Berlin-Dahlem
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* Thomas Leiberg: ''Der St. Annen-Kirchhof in Berlin-Dahlem''. Stapp, Berlin 1995, , S. 91 f.
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References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Burckhardt, Johannes
19th-century German Protestant theologians
20th-century German Protestant theologians
1853 births
1914 deaths