Karol Gustaw Manitius

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Karol Gustaw Manitius (born September 28, 1823 in Płock, May 14, 1904 in Warsaw) - Polish evangelical clergyman, superintendent general (national bishop) of the Evangelical Church of Augsburg. Curriculum vitae

The son of the merchant Charles Ferdinand and Wilhelmina from the Lessers. He graduated from the Gymnasium in Plock, then took up theology studies at the University of Dorpat (from 1844). During his studies he became acquainted with Tytus Chalubinski and Jakub Natanson because of his joint affiliation to the academic corporation Polonia Convent. From 1846 he worked as a vicar in Kalisz; he was an administrator in Kleszczów (1847-1848) and Przasnysz (1849-1853), and in 1853 he became a parish priest. The Trinity in Lodz. He introduced services in Polish and represented an open Polish national attitude (he celebrated the service for the five fallen demonstrators in Warsaw, took part in the manifest funeral of Archbishop Antoni Melchior Fijalovsky, and denied the views of the Russian authorities that the Evangelists are exclusively Germans). All this caused the parish priest to be deprived of office in Lodz and transferred to Lomza (1865). Two years later he was appointed to the position of II parish priest in Warsaw. Here he was promoted to the first parish priest (1875), superintendent of the Warsaw diocese (1878), and finally the superintendent general in the Kingdom of Poland (1895).

Karl Gustaw Manitius participated in the translation of the New Testament, set up a committee to compile a new songbook, twice translated the German church agenda, and founded the evangelical mission of Polonia in Africa.

From his first marriage with Joanna of Spiess he had two sons: Fr. Zygmunt Otto (1852-1911), parish priest in Lodz and engineer. Karol Ludwika's chemistry (born 1855), manager of the enamel works in Warsaw. The son of Zygmunt Otto, pastor Gustaw Manitius was murdered by the Nazis in 1940. From his second marriage with Maria Jonscher Karol Gustaw had a daughter, Jadwiga Agata. She married a pastor, Fr. Edward Wende, grandfather of a well-known lawyer and politician of the same name.

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