Wilhelm Pratscher

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Wilhelm Pratscher (born August 15, 1947 in Redlschlag ) is an Austrian Protestant theologian and university professor .

Life

Pratscher studied Protestant theology in Vienna , Erlangen and Heidelberg . Doctorate (1973) and habilitation (1985) took place at the University of Vienna. During his studies in Vienna he became a member of the Christian student union Wingolf in Vienna . He has completed the vicariate and is an ordained pastor . In 1996 he became a full professor at the University of Bonn . From 1998 he was full professor for New Testament science at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna. At the same time he was head of the Institute for New Testament Science. He has been retired since 2012, but continues to work in research and teaching.

In addition to the history of early Christianity , one focus of Pratscher's work is on the field of the Apostolic Fathers , and another on the field of apologists . He is co-editor of the Wiener Jahrbuch für Theologie .

Wilhelm Pratscher is married to Susanne Pratscher, teacher at HTL Spengergasse , with whom he has two grown children.

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

As an author or translator / commentator:

  • The Lord Brother James and the James Tradition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987.
  • The second letter of Clement. Translated and explained by Wilhelm Pratscher. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007.

As editor:

  • with Georg Sauer : The Church as a historical and eschatological entity. Festschrift for Kurt Niederwimmer on his 65th birthday. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • with Markus Öhler : Kurt Niederwimmer: Quaestiones theologicae. Collected Essays. De Gruyter, Berlin 1998.
  • with Markus Öhler: Theology in the late period of the New Testament. Lectures at the symposium on the 75th birthday of Kurt Niederwimmer. Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna, Vienna 2005.
  • with Markus Öhler and Markus Lang: Egyptian Christianity in the 2nd Century. Lit, Vienna 2008.
  • The Apostolic Fathers. An introduction. [Kurt Niederwimmer on his 80th birthday]. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of Susanne Pratscher , schule.at Österreichisches Schulportal, accessed on April 19, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Pratscher, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Redlschlag