Citations:Consistorialrath
English citations of Consistorialrath
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- 1857 October 24, “Böttger, the Inventor of Dresden China”, in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, number 199:
- As a matter of course, such a secret was not well kept, and before long he was induced to repeat the operation before a more numerous circle. These were his master, the lady of the shrill tongue, his master’s wife, their intimate friend an ecclesiastical councillor (consistorialrath), and their son-in-law, the pastor Prost.
- 1871, Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher, translated by M. G. Easton, Krummacher: An Autobiography[1], 2nd revised edition, T. & T. Clark, →OCLC, page 200:
- My colleague was a superintendent, who was at the same time assistant preacher, afternoon preacher, and a consistorialrath, our superior and inferior, all in one.
- 1877, Nathaniel Smith Richardson, Edward Brenton Boggs, Henry Mason Baum, American Church Review[2], volume 29, Bassett and Bradley, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 594:
- He placed himself at the disposal of the Consistorialrath Roth, who immediately offered him a vacant parish at Rückersdorf, a small village in the neighborhood of Erlangen.
- 1887, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Arthur Duke Coleridge, Goethe's Letters to Zelter: With Extracts from Those of Zelter to Goethe (Bohn's standard library)[3], G. Bell and sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 195:
- men of position,—amongst them a Consistorialrath, a clergyman, a Councillor's daughter, Court-Councillors and high officials
- 1888, “Wilhelm Abraham Teller”, in Encyclopædia Britannica[4], 9th edition, volume 23, page 157:
- The edict of Wöllner (1788), and Teller’s manly action as consistorialrath in defiance of it, led the Prussian Government to pass upon him the sentence of suspension for three months, with forfeiture of his stipend.
- 1889, James I. Good, “XVIII. Central Germany”, in Rambles Round Reformed Lands, Reading, Pa.: Daniel Miller, page 231:
- Returning from Arminius, I hunt for the Calvinists, and call on Rev. Mr. Theleman, the consistorialrath of the Reformed Church.
- 1894, Good, History of the Reformed Church of Germany: 1620-1890[5], page 517:
- But the old faith found a firm defender in Samuel L. E. de Marees, who became Consistorialrath in 1760 of Dessau and court preacher.
- 1898, Otto Zöckler, “Lecture II: The Doctrine of Creation and Natural Science”, in David Heagle, transl., The Bremen Lectures on Great Religious Questions of To-day, New and improved edition, Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, page 67:
- In 1857 he became privat-docent at Giessen, and professor extraordinary at the same place in 1863. In 1866 he was made ordinary professor at Greifswald, and in January, 1885, he became consistorialrath.
- 1900 December 26th, Viator (pseudonym?), “The Polish Danger” (Letter to the Editor) in The Times, № 36,342 (Thursday 3rd January 1901), page 5/6:
- A member of the Prussian Consistory explained that policy to me in 1864 or 1865, when, owning some property in what was then still Wendish Silesia — it has become wholly Germanized since — I was patron of a living to which a man knowing Wendish must be appointed. Some business relating to that living brought the Consistorialrath to my house. “We are not going to crush out Wendism,” so distinctly said the Consistorialrath; “we are not going to forbid the use of the Wendish language; we mean to give the Wends a thoroughly good German education in their own language and then await results.” The Wendish clergy present gratefully replied that they asked for nothing better.