Albrecht Oepke

Albrecht Ubbo Paulus Anton Oepke (born September 10, 1881 in Arle , East Frisia , † December 10, 1955 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of a pastor studied Oepke 1900 at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen and at the Georg-August University Göttingen , theology . During his studies he became a member of the Erlanger and then the Göttingen Wingolfs . After his theological exams in Hanover, he got his first job at Borkum in 1907 . In 1908 he came to Völlen ( Leer district ), where he took over the pastoral office in 1909. From 1914 he worked at the mission seminar in Leipzig and from 1920 to 1922 published the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Journal. In 1919 he received his doctorate at the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig , where he worked as an associate professor from 1922 and in 1954 received a chair for the New Testament .

Services

During the National Socialist dictatorship, Oepke was a member of the District Council of the Confessing Church . In September 1933 he signed the declaration “New Testament and Racial Issues” against the adoption of the Aryan paragraph in church service law. After 1945 he was involved in the rebuilding of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony , including as chairman of the church leadership and member of the regional synod .

His most important work concerned research on the apostle Paul .

Fonts (selection)

The mission sermon of the apostle Paul. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1920.
Karl Barth and mysticism. Dörffling & Franke, Leipzig 1928.
Historical and supra-historical scriptural interpretation. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1931; ² 1947.
The letters to the Thessalonians. In: The smaller letters of the Apostle Paul (= Das Neue Testament Deutsch, 8). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1933.
The myth. Rosenberg observations . Deichert, Leipzig 1935; ² 1937.
Paul's letter to the Galatians (= theological hand commentary on the New Testament 9). Deichert, Leipzig 1937 (and further editions at the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, until ² 1984).
Jesus and the Old Testament. Leipzig 1938.
The new people of God in literature, drama, visual arts and shaping the world. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1950.

A complete bibliography in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 76, 1951, pp. 693-698, 81, 1956, pp. 185-186.

literature

Heinrich Herzog: The reorganization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony after the collapse of the “Third Reich”. In: Herbergen der Christenheit 9, 1973/74, pp. 199–212.
Dietfried violence: Albrecht Oepke. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1151-1153. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Georg-Siegfried Schmutzler : Against the current: Experiences from Leipzig under Hitler and the Stasi: "... it was actually possible ..." . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-525-55420-6 , p. 64.
Friedemann Stengel: Ubbo Paulus Albrecht Anton OEPKE. In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland, Vol. 3. Aurich 2001, pp. 328–329 ( PDF file ).

Individual evidence

↑ Complete directory of Wingolf, 1991
↑ Printed with 23 signatures in: Theologische Blätter 12, 1933, pp. 294–296.

Web links

Literature by and about Albrecht Oepke in the catalog of the German National Library
On the history of New Testament science in Leipzig
Albrecht Oepke in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

personal data
SURNAME	Oepke, Albrecht
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oepke, Albrecht Ubbo Paulus Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	September 10, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Arle , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH	December 10, 1955
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Complete directory of Wingolf, 1991

[2] Printed with 23 signatures in: Theologische Blätter 12, 1933, pp. 294–296.