Tradition and History: Biographical Sketch of the Author

Posted on April 18, 2007 

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Biographical Sketch Of The Author

(1 of 10 chapters. See Table of Contents at Bottom. First published by Firm Foundation, 210876, Bedford TX, 76095-7876)

Hans Godwin Grimm, Kanalgasse 28, Biel (Switzerland), was born at Sablon-lez-Metz, Lorraine, son of the late Gustaf Grim, last bishop of the church of Christ in Alsatia. He was married July 9, 1948, to Ilse Hildegard Kohler of Leipzig, Germany.

His publications include Djinnistan (Lorch, 1918); Islamische Mystik (Dusseldorf, 1919); Sturmvolk (Leoben, 1920); Ludendorff (Hamburg, 1921); Die junge Republik (Konigsberg, 1924); Der ostpreussische Bauernkrieg (Konigsberg, 1925); Das Raesel des Chassidismus (Bin., 1931); Anglo-Israel und die verlorenen Staemme (Bin., 1932); and Der Weg der Gemeinden Christi (Mannheim, 1958).

He was baptized as a scion of one of the oldest Christian families in Central Europe at the age of 17 in the Hanau pond in Alsatia. He attended college in Strassburg, and started preaching while inscribed in the universities of Koningsberg, Hamburg and Riga. Lic. Comparative Religion Science and doing research work for a history of the churches of Christ in Central Europe.

In 1933 he was placed in a Nazi concentration camp in Germany for illegal preaching in Anhalt, Germany. His first library and manuscript were confiscated in 1934, and his second library and manuscript were bombed out in 1944 in Leipzig. In 1946-48 he served as professor in the Teachers’ College in Leipzig. In October 1948, he was arrested by the Communists for illegal preaching, serving a four-year term in the Red prisons of Leipzig, Waldheim and Graefentonna. He escaped to Berlin in December 1952, and from 1953 to 1955 was a lecturer of the Evangelical Academy in Kassel.

At his first contact with the brethern from the United States (Roy Palmer and Otis Gatewood), Herr Grimm was recognized as a member of the churches of Christ. He served congregations at Kaiserslautern and Mannheim, Germany, and since May 1963, at Biel, Switzerland, under the supervision of the elders of Trinity Heights Church of Christ in Dallas.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Biographical Sketch of the Author
  2. The Church of Christ
  3. The Sects
  4. Course of the Church Through the Centuries: 350-800 AD
  5. Course of the Church Through the Centuries: 800-1071 AD
  6. Course of the Church Through the Centuries: 1071-1143 AD
  7. Course of the Church Through the Centuries: 1143-1400 AD
  8. Course of the Church Through the Centuries: 1400-1800 AD
  9. Course of the Church Through the Centuries: 1800-1955 AD
  10. Bibliography

 

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