Michael Baumgarten

Eine Prophetenstimme aus der Gegenwart, in which, starting from texts in the Old Testament and assuming the tone of a prophet, he discussed topics of every kind.

[1] At a pastoral conference in 1856 he boldly defended evangelical freedom as regards the legal sanctity of Sunday.

This, with other attempts to liberalize religion, brought him into conflict with the ecclesiastical authorities of Mecklenburg, and in 1858 he was deprived of his professorship.

[1][2] He then travelled throughout Germany, demanding justice, telling the story of his life ("Christliche Selbstgesprache", 1861), and lecturing on the life of Jesus ("Die Geschichte Jesu: für das Verständniss der Gegenwart", 1859).

[1] Hans Hinrich Studt published his autobiography in 1891 (2 volumes); see also Karl Schwarz, Zur Geschichte der neuesten Theologie (1856, 4th edition 1869); Frédéric Auguste Lichtenberger, "History of German theology in the nineteenth century" (1889); Paul Zeller, Calwer Bibellexikon.