Albert Greiner

Albert Greiner (born April 6, 1918 in Strasbourg ; † March 15, 2013 ) was a French theologian , pastor and Luther researcher.

Life

After attending school in Strasbourg, Greiner studied German at the Sorbonne and theology at the Protestant theological faculty in Paris. In 1943/44 he was a German teacher in Lyon . In 1947, he became the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of France ordained . From 1947 to 1983 he was pastor at various churches in France. The Evangelical Lutheran Theological University in Budapest and the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Munich awarded him an honorary doctorate . He wrote numerous articles for the magazine Positions luthériennes .

He was married and had three children.

Fonts (selection)

• Luther. Essai biographique. Geneva 1956.
• Le Saint-esprit, ce méconnu. Strasbourg 1965.
• Martin Luther ou l'hymne à la grâce. Paris 1966.
  • Translation: Martin Luther - Experience of Grace. Translated by Peter Göpfert and Josef Erwin Korn. Munich 1967.
• Luther vu par les Français du XIXe et du XXe siècles. in: Francia . Vol. 5 (1977), pp. 708 ff.
• Martin Luther in France. In: Luther . Vol. 56: 70-78 (1985).
• Martin Luther, telling his life for children. Lahr 1986.

literature

• Marc Lienhard : Greiner, Albert. In: Dictionnaire du monde religieux dans la France contemporaine. Vol. 5: Les Protestants. Paris 1993, p. 233 f.
• Greiner (Albert). In: Patrimoine littéraire européen. Vol. 13, Brussels 2000, p. 401.
• Écriture, protestantisme et oecuménisme. Homage to Albert Greiner pour ses 90 years. Paris 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Disparition du pasteur Albert Greiner , website of the Fédération protestante de France , March 18, 2013, accessed on November 25, 2013.