WOLTERS, v6lt'ers, ALBRECHT JULIUS KONSTANTIN:
German theologian; b. at Emmerichon-the-Rhine (60 m. w. of Münster) Aug. 22, 1822;
d. at Bonn Mar. 29, 1877. He began his education
in
the gymnasium of his native town, and the relics
of early Christian art of various kinds accessible there
gave him a taste for archeological studies. He attended the University of Bonn, where he came under
the influence of Friedrich Bleek and Karl Immanuel
Nitzsch (qq.v.); then went to Berlin and pursued
theological and philosophical studies under Marheineke, Vatke, Hengstenberg, and others, developing his talent for languages; he closed his studies by
returning to Bonn. His first work was done as
private tutor at Naples, during three years of which
activity he acquired a mastery of the Italian; re-
Wolsey Women turning to Germany he took a position as unordained
assistant at Krefeld, then held a teacherehip for a
brief time at a girls' school at Cologne, after which
he became pastor at Wesel
(1851); in 1857 he went to
Bonn to do the work of a pastor, and showed a com
prehensive activity in preaching, organization, lead
ership and the cure of souls, adding to his other
duties the religious instruction of the upper classes in
the gymnasium; after 1862 he was a standing repre
sentative at the provincial synod, and in 1869 he be
came superintendent of the district of Mulheim. In
1874 he assumed a new line of duty as professor of
practical theology at Halle, lecturing also on various
New-Testament epistles, on church order, and on
the history of Christian art; here he served also as
head of the governing body of the deaconess insti
tution, while other activities, such as the Gustav
Adolf-Verein,drew upon his strength. Besides three
volumes of sermons (Krefeld, 1851, Bonn, 1860-74),
he issued
Ernst Moritz Arndt, sin Zeuge für den evan
gelischen Glauben (Elberfeld, 1860);
Ueber die Prin. zipien der rheinisch-westphdlischen Kirchenordnung
(Bonn, 1862);
Der Heidelberger Katechismus . . .
nebst der Geschichte seines Textes
(1864);
Konrad von Heresbach und der clev. Hof zu seiner Zeit
(Elber feld, 1867);
Reformationsgeschichte der Stadt Wesel
(Bonn, 1868);
Bin. Blatt aus der Geschichte des trueh
sess'schen Krieges (1872);
Der Abgott zu Halls (1877);
and the posthumous
Nachgelassene Gedichte
(1879).
(K. H. Pahncke.)
Bibliography:
W. Beyschlag, Erinnerungen an Albrecht
Wolters, Halle, 1880; and the address at the interment, by
Pastor Krabb, in %irchl£cher
Anzeiger für die evangelischen
Gemeinden in Bonn and Umgegend, 1878, no. 15.
