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[English Version] Rohden, Gustav v. (22.4.1855 Bremen – 9.5.1942 Ballenstedt, Harz), ev. Theologe. U.a. Gefängnispfarrer in Dortmund (1895) und Konsistorialrat der Altpreußischen Union in Berlin (1908–1912), danach Pfarrer in der Nähe von Bitterfeld, seit 1922 im Ruhestand. Enge familiäre Beziehungen zu dem Pädagogen F.W. Dörpfeld. V.R. vf. einflußreiche Schriften zur Gefängnisseelsorge und Sexualethik, in denen er rassehygienischen und eugenischen Überlegungen zeitweise sehr nahestand. Matthias Roser Bibliography Vf. u.a.: Darstellung und Beurteilung der P…

[English Version] Nathusius, Martin Friedrich Engelhard v. (24.9.1843 Althaldensleben – 9.3.1906 Greifswald). N. verbrachte seine Kindheit und Jugend sowie sein Studium in einer kirchl. und theol. Atmosphäre, die wesentlich von den Vorbildern J.H. Wichern, F.A.G. Tholuck und J.T. Beck geprägt war. Nach Pfarrstellen 1873 in Quedlinburg und 1885 in Barmen folgte 1888 die Berufung auf den Lehrstuhl für Praktische Theol. in Greifswald. N. vf. einflußreiche und viel gelesene Publikationen zur sozialen Frag…

[German Version] (Apr 22, 1855, Bremen – May 9, 1942, Ballenstedt, Harz), Protestant theologian. Rohden worked inter alia as prison chaplain in Dortmund (1895) and counselor in the consistory of the Old Prussian Union in Berlin (1908–1912), then minister near Bitterfeld; he retired in 1922. He had strong family connections with the educational theorist F.W. Dörpfeld. Rohden wrote influential books on pastoral care in prisons and on sexual ethics; in these books he sometimes came very close to ways of thinking associated with racial hygiene and eugenics. Matthias Roser Bibliography Wo…

[German Version] (Mar 22, 1851, Bremen – Oct 17, 1927, Bremen). After curacies in Rome and at the Berlin cathedral, as well as pastorates in Mettmann, Hamm, and Bremen, in 1899 Lahusen succeeded Ernst Hermann v. Dryander at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Berlin. After being named to the High Consistory in 1910, he was appointed general superintendent in 1912. In 1918 Lahusen became Wirklicher Geheimer Oberkonsistorialrat (high privy councilor) and clerical vice-president of the Evangelical High Cons…

[German Version] (Sep 24, 1843, Althaldensleben – Mar 9, 1906, Greifswald). Nathusius spent his childhood, youth, and years of study in an ecclesiastical and theological atmosphere, strongly influenced by J.H. Wichern, F.A.G. Tholuck, and J.T. Beck. He was a pastor from 1873 in Quedlinburg and from 1885 in Barmen, and was then appointed in 1888 to a chair of practical theology in Greifswald. Nathusius wrote influential and widely read publications on the social question, in which he strongly criti…