Wilhelm Luetgert

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Wilhelm Lütgert (born April 9, 1867 in Heiligengrabe ; † February 21, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian, a student of Hermann Cremer and Adolf Schlatter and a member of the so-called Greifswald School .

Life

After graduating from high school , Lütgert began studying Protestant theology at the University of Greifswald a . a. with Hermann Cremer and joined the Wingolf Christian student union there (see Wingolfsbund ). In March 1888 he left Greifswald and enrolled at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , where he attended lectures by Franz Ludwig Steinmeyer and Adolf von Harnack . In Berlin he passed his first theological exam in 1890. His goal was to enter church service as a pastor . However, since Hermann Cremer encouraged him to pursue an academic career and unknown benefactors wanted to enable him to do his doctorate , he returned to the University of Greifswald. On October 26, 1892 he was there with the work The method of dogmatic evidence in its development under the influence of Schleiermacher to Lic. Theol. PhD. His habilitation was completed just two days later . His habilitation thesis The Kingdom of God according to the Synoptic Gospels - An investigation into New Testament theology was published in Gütersloh in 1895. In the same year he was appointed associate professor for the New Testament in Greifswald .

During his time in Greifswald, he married Martha Sellschopp on June 3, 1898 (* April 7, 1878 , † February 12, 1946 in Berlin) in Groß Stove near Rostock, making him brother-in-law of Erich Schaeder . From this marriage there were seven children. In 1901 he accepted the offer of the University of Halle to the local theological faculty , as associate professor for New Testament theology and exegesis in succession to Willibald Beyschlag . In the summer of 1913, after the death of Martin Kähler, he changed to the chair for systematic theology . In 1929 he finally accepted the call from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , where Dietrich Bonhoeffer was his assistant.

Lütgert was close to Schlatter's biblicism and German idealism . The dialectical theology by Karl Barth he refused. In his essay Mission and Nation from 1928 he advocated the thesis widespread among liberal and German national theologians at the time:

The gospel of the Reformation is not only the rediscovery of Paulinism
but it is German Christianity.

On the other hand, from 1933 onwards he demarcated himself from the German Christians and counted himself internally to the Confessing Church , which he did not join . In 1935 he was prematurely relieved of his teaching post and banned from lecturing.

Wilhelm Lütgert died in Berlin in 1938 at the age of 70 and was buried in the Dahlem forest cemetery. The grave has not been preserved.

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  1. ↑ quoted from JC Hoekendijk: Kirche und Volk in der deutschen Missionswissenschaft , Amsterdam 1948, reissued Munich 1967, p. 133
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 585.
personal data
SURNAME Lütgert, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Holy grave
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1938
Place of death Berlin