Paul Grünberg

Paul Grünberg (born February 20, 1857 in Brieg , Lower Silesia , † August 8, 1919 in Jena ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

After attending grammar school in Saarbrücken , Grünberg studied Protestant theology at the Kaiser Wilhelm University of Strasbourg, which was newly founded in 1872, and in 1880 joined the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine . He received his first independent pastor's position in 1887 in Alteckendorf . In 1893 he was transferred to the prestigious parish at Alt. Called St. Peter in Strasbourg, from where he moved to the New Church in 1902 . He also volunteered as a member of the theological examination board and as chairman of the Association for Internal Mission in Alsace.

As a staunch Prussian-German patriot, Grünberg participated in the Germanization of the population in the long French empire of Alsace-Lorraine from the beginning of his term in office . In addition to his sermons, he also used his numerous publications, which were mainly devoted to the church history of Alsace in German times. His most important work is a three-volume monograph on Philipp Jakob Spener (1893–1906), which is still not completely out of date. For the first two volumes he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg in 1905 . From 1909 he also published direct articles on the political situation.

After Germany's defeat in World War I , Grünberg was expelled from Strasbourg at the end of December 1918. In June 1919 he was able to take up a new pastorate in Mosbach near Eisenach , but died shortly afterwards.

Fonts (selection)

• Biblical idioms: a study of the use and abuse of the Bible in German vernacular and colloquial language . Heilbronn: Henninger, 1888
• Philipp Jakob Spener . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht (reprint, edited by Erich Beyreuther. Olms, Hildesheim 1988)
  • Vol. 1. The time of Spener; The life of Spener; The theology of Spener . 1893
  • Vol. 2. Spener as a practical theologian and church reformer . 1905
  • Vol. 3. Spener in the judgment of posterity and its effects on the subsequent period; Spener Bibliography; Supplements and registers . 1906
• The Jesuits and the Counter Reformation in Alsace . Strasbourg 1894
• Handbook for the Inner Mission in Alsace-Lorraine. Published on behalf of the Evangelical Society in Strasbourg to promote the inner mission in connection with several employees . Strasbourg 1899
• To the statistics of the Protestant clergy in Alsace-Lorraine . Altenburg 1907
• The German thought in Alsace from 1815-1870 . Saarbrücken 1908
• On the Alsatian situation and question . Strasbourg: Heitz JH Ed, 1909
• Evangelical Church Studies for Alsace-Lorraine . Strasbourg 1910
• The Protestant Church: its organization and its work in the big city . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, 1910
• The Evangelical Church and the Inner Mission . [Giessen], [1912]
• Main problems of the Protestant community organization in the present . [Berlin], [1912]
• The Alsace-Lotharingian peculiarity and the state government . Strasbourg 1914
• The ten commandments in war. War devotions . Strasbourg 1915
• The Reformation and Alsace: Festschrift for the 400th anniversary of the Reformation . Strasbourg: KJ Trübner, 1917

literature

• In memory of Pastor D. theol. Paul Grünberg 1957 [!] - 1919. [sl]: [sn] Schlüchtern (: Steinfeld), 1919, As Ms. gedr.
• Marie-Joseph Bopp: The Protestant clergy and theologians in Alsace and Lorraine from the Reformation to the present . Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1959, p. 202.
• Erich Beyreuther : Introduction . In: Paul Grünberg: Philipp Jakob Spener (reprint, Olms, Hildesheim 1988), vol. 1, pp. 1–86 (including a bibliography with 414 titles)
• Bernard Vogler: GRÜNBERG Paul . In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne 14, 1989, p. 1307