You are bidding on one German postcard from 1896 out Cairo (Egypt).

The Swiss Evangelical-Reformed Theologian Adolf Keller (1872-1936) turns to the publishing house of Friedrich Wilhelm Grunow in Leipzig and orders the magazine "Christliche Welt", without the supplement "Chronicle of the Christian World."

The publishing house was managed by Johannes Grunow (1845-1906), son of the publisher's founder Friedrich Wilhelm Grunow (1816-1877).

"After his ordination in 1896, Adolf Keller worked as an assistant pastor in the German-Protestant community in Cairo." (Source: wikipedia.) "In addition to looking after the community, he has to teach German, arithmetic, Latin and singing in the Protestant school." (Source: Johannes Staehelin: Adolf Keller, in: Schaffhauser Beiträge zur history, vol. 46, 1969, pp. 119-129, spec. p. 120.)

DatedCairo the 16th October 1896.

Signed"Adolf Keller ODM(?) école allemande."

5 milliemes postal stationery (8.8x14cm).

Condition: Map browned and somewhat stained; with creases and corner tear. bitte also note the pictures!

Internal note: 2207 Ostb postcards to companies

About Adolf Keller, the magazine "The Christian World" and Johannes Grunow (source: wikipedia):

Adolph Keller (* 7. February 1872 in Rüdlingen; † 10 February 1963 in Los Angeles, entitled to reside in Rüdlingen) was a Swiss Protestant theologian.

Life: Adolf Keller came on 7. February 1872 in Rüdlingen as the son of the teacher Johann Georg Keller and Margaretha nee Buchter. Keller, who attended high school in Schaffhausen, began studying theology in Basel and Berlin, with Adolf von Harnack and Adolf Schlatter, among others. He also studied philosophy, art history and later psychology in Geneva.

After his ordination in 1896, Adolf Keller worked as an assistant pastor in the German Evangelical Church in Cairo. In 1899, after his return to Switzerland, he was elected pastor in Burg near Stein am Rhein. Subsequently, in 1904, Keller was appointed pastor of the German-Swiss congregation in Geneva. Karl Barth was one of his vicars there. Keller held his last ministry between 1909 and his resignation in 1923 in St. Peter's in Zurich. Here he joined Carl Gustav Jung, gave lectures in his Psychological Club and also took on analyses. In addition, his commitment during the First World War was aimed at peace and the cohesion of Switzerland.

Subsequently, Adolf Keller was a driving force in the ecumenical movement and, in his capacity as second general secretary of the Movement for Practical Christianity (Life and Work), head of the International Social Science Institute founded in 1926, associated with the nickname Weltalf. In addition, until 1941, as the first and German-speaking secretary of the Federation of Swiss Evangelical Churches founded in 1920, Keller held a key position between the Reformed Churches in Switzerland and the Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox Churches abroad. In addition, until 1945, Keller served as general secretary of the European Central Office for Church Aid Actions, founded in 1922, which was dedicated to the reconstruction of Europe and to Russian, Armenian, Assyrian and "non-Aryan" refugees.

In addition, Keller acted as the initiator of the first international Protestant loan cooperative, gave lectures abroad, especially in the USA, and taught from 1926 and 1929 as a lecturer on ecumenical questions at the Universities of Zurich and Geneva. The Ecumenical Seminary founded by Keller in 1934 was the forerunner of the Bossey Ecumenical Institute. Between 1938 and 1941 he also presided over the Swiss Church Aid Committee for Protestant Refugees.

From 1919 Keller was influenced by dialectic theology. In the face of the church struggle, he sided with the Confessing Church.

The versatile interested Adolf Keller left behind a rich literary work. In addition to publications on the ecumenical movement, it also includes an introduction to Henri Bergson's philosophy, articles on the relationship between psychoanalysis and Christianity, and several volumes in which "secular devotions" are collected. In various publications, he endeavored to bring German-speaking and Anglo-Saxon theology and the church world closer together.

He received numerous honors for his work, including honorary doctorates (University of Geneva 1922; Yale University 1927) and professorships in the USA and Europe.

Adolf Keller emigrated to the United States in 1954, to Evanston in California. He was married to Tina Keller, née Jenny. Adolf Keller died on 10. February 1963, three days after he had turned 91. year of life in Los Angeles. His grave is in Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).

Fonts (selection)

A Philosophy of Life (Henri Bergson). diederichs, Jena 1914.

dynamis. Forms and Forces of American Protestantism. Mohr, Tubingen 1921.

The Churches and Peace with Special Consideration of Their Position in the League of Nations. Furche, Berlin 1927.

On the threshold. Insights and views into the deeper reality. Wanderer Verlag, Zurich 1929.

The path of dialectical theology through the ecclesiastical world. A little ecclesiastical knowledge of the present. Kaiser, Munich 1931.

From the Unknown God. Need and hope of the present. Wanderer Verlag, Zurich; Klotz, Gotha 1933.

Of spirit and love. A picture book from life. Wanderer Verlag, Zurich; Klotz, Gotha 1937.

At the foot of the lighthouse. Wanderer Verlag, Zurich 1940.

American Christianity – Today. Evangelical publishing house, Zollikon/Zurich 1943.

The magazine The Christian World (First: The Christian World) was the most important church-religious journal of cultural Protestantism. It was edited by the Marburg theologian Martin Rade and appeared from 1887 to 1941.

History of the Christian World: On 21. On November 1, 1886, a sample number appeared under the title Evangelical Lutheran parish bulletin for the educated members of the Evangelical churches. The first volume (1887/1888), published in Leipzig by Friedrich Wilhelm Grunow, also traded under this name. The next volume (1888/1889) was then published under the title The Christian World. Protestant half-monthly publication by Leopold Klotz.

After Rade had given up editing work due to old age, the magazine was published by Hermann Mulert and Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze in 1932 and 1933, and then by Mulert alone.

With the 55th The Christian World ceased publication in October 1941.

Chronicle of the Christian World

The chronicle of the “Christliche Welt” (year 1/1890 to year 27/1917) was published from 1890 to 1917 to relieve the Christian world of daily news.

To the friends

Printed "confidential communications" were used for communication between the friends of the project. They appeared between 1903 and 1934 under the title To the Friends. Confidential di non-public communications (Association of Friends of the Christian World) (1/1903-111/1934).

In addition, from 1918 until the 1930s there was a club house in Friedrichroda in Thuringia ("House of the Christian World", Schreibersweg 6).

Christian World Booklets / Christian World Library

The issues on the Christliche Welt (edited by Martin Rade, Ferdinand Kattenbusch and Gustav Habermann), which were published in Tübingen by JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) (1/1892–50/ 1901; NF 1=51.1904-10=60.1907). The founding of this series was triggered by the disputes in the so-called Apostolicum dispute. The library of the Christian world has been published since 1924 and is a collection of theological monographs on mostly systematic theological topics (twenty-seven volumes up to 1929).

Booklets on the "Christian World" (Leipzig, published by Fr. Wilh. Grunow, 1892/93):

1. Martin Rade: The right evangelical faith. A word on the recent apostolic controversy.

2. Ferdinand Kattenbusch: To appreciate the Apostolicum. Historical sketches with an afterword.

3. Adolf Harnack: Response to D. Cremer's pamphlet: "On the fight for the Apostolicum".

4. Wilhelm Herrmann: What is the dispute about the Apostolicum about? Answered with particular reference to Cremer's polemic.

5. Hans Hinrich Wendt: The norm of genuine Christianity.

6. Julius Kaftan: The commitment to the confession in the evangelical church.

7. Hermann Schultz: The Old Testament and the Evangelical Church.

8. L. Clasen: How do you think of Christ? Whose son is he? A contribution to the controversy at the time.

9. Gustav Habermann: Christianity and State. Evangelical thoughts on the new conservative program.

10. Wilhelm Bornemann: The Second Article in the Lutheran Small Catechism. questions and suggestions.

Johannes Grunow (* 11. October 1845 in Leipzig; † 1. April 1906 ibid) was a German bookseller and publisher.

Johannes Grunow was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Grunow (1816-1877). In 1839 he took over the commission and publishing bookshop that had been founded by his uncle Friedrich Ludwig Herbig in Leipzig in 1819. The magazine "Die Grenzboten" was published here from 1842. In 1860 Friedrich Wilhelm Grunow separated the publishing house from the commission book trade and ran it under his own name.

Johannes Grunow inherited this publishing house in 1877. After Gustav Freytag, Julian Schmidt, Hans Blum and others had left the editorial board of the magazine Die Grenzboten, Johannes Grunow took over the editorship in 1878, until 1897 together with Gustav Wustmann.

Johannes Grunow also published writings by Paul Göhre, Charlotte Niese, Adolf Rosenberg and prose works by Max Allihn (pseudonym: Fritz Anders).

Writing

About buying books and book prices in Germany. In: Border Messengers. Jg. 62. 1903, H. 33.