Andreas Lindt

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Andreas Lindt (born July 2, 1920 in Meiringen ; † October 9, 1985 in Sigriswil ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

family

Andreas Lindt comes from the Lindt family , originally from Windecken . He was the eldest child of pastor Robert Karl Lindt (* 1893; † 1948) and his wife Gertrud (née Barth) (* 1896 in Basel ); he had three other siblings:

  • Katharina Lindt (* 1921);
  • Jakob Lindt (* 1925);
  • Johanna Lindt (* 1927 in Bern ; † December 20, 2018), married to Pastor Albert Walter Franz von Fellenberg (* September 13; † January 31, 2020).

His grandfather was Johann Friedrich Barth (born October 25, 1856 in Basel, † December 25, 1912 in Bern), professor of early and middle church history and the New Testament at the University of Bern ; his uncle was the theologian Karl Barth .

Andreas Lindt had been married to Ruth, daughter of pastor Alphons Koechlin (born January 6, 1885 in Basel; † May 8, 1965, ibid.) Since 1950 .

Career

During the Second World War he studied theology at the universities of Neuchâtel , Bern and Basel ; During this time, he was shaped by the intense experience of the German church struggle and the impression of the strong publicity of his uncle Karl Barth at the end of the 1930s against Adolf Hitler's propaganda speeches for National Socialism . From 1943 to 1966 he was the vicariate and pastor in Worb and Pratteln ; he passed his state examination in 1945 . He was on from 1966 to 1970 rector of the church and theological school in Basel in 1957 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Leonhard Ragaz for Dr. theol. and in 1963, after completing his habilitation with a thesis on the culture war in church history, became a private lecturer in church history at the University of Bern. In 1971 he was appointed full professor for modern church history at the University of Münster in Westphalia ; In 1974 he returned as a professor to the chair for modern church history, denominational studies and the history of theology at the University of Bern. On the occasion of his 65th birthday, he resigned his academic teaching post in 1985 and died in the same year while attending a symposium of the Swiss Humanities Society . At the end of September 1985, he was the inviting organizer, facilitator and speaker at the center of a scientific conference entitled The Post-1945 Time as a Topic of Contemporary Church History , which brought together the Protestant and Roman Catholic Commissions for Church History for the first time.

Public and literary work

As early as 1942, he criticized the closure of the Swiss borders against (Jewish) refugees for which Federal Councilor Eduard von Steiger was responsible as an eyesore and summed up his attitude: Rationed humanity is no longer humanity .

At the center of his academic work were the recent and recent church history as well as the history and theology of ecumenism . In addition to his main work, The Age of Totalitarianism from 1981, he wrote fundamental studies and editions on religious socialism , the history of the Kulturkampf and the history of Pietism . Research on the history and theology of religious socialism owes a thorough book on Leonhard Ragaz and a careful edition of Hermann Kutter's correspondence. He also dealt with questions of ecumenism and wrote a study on Pope John XXIII. and a contribution to the text collection Church and Theological History in Sources .

On the church struggle in Germany he has the correspondence between his father-in-law Alphons Koechlin and George Kennedy Allen Bell , the Bishop of Chichester , and finally his work The Age of Totalitarianism. Political doctrines of salvation and ecumenical awakening published.

His publications on the dispute and eventual encounter between Christian Friedrich Spittler and Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, as well as an essay on Spittler's oeuvre, prove the importance he attached to pietism and in particular to the revival movement.

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Leonhard Ragaz. A Study of the History and Theology of Religious Socialism . Zollikon 1957.
  • Protestants - Catholics, Kulturkampf: Studies on Church and Spiritual History of the Nineteenth Century . Zurich 1963.
  • On the contribution of the churches to political education . 1966.
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the path from Christian faith to political action. 1967.
  • Swiss Protestantism as seen by Swiss Catholics: Introductory thoughts on the “Reformatio” survey . Benteli, Bern 1967.
  • Jesuit and monastery ban in the federal constitution, then and now . Schaffhausen, 1969.
  • (as ed.) George Bell, Alphons Koechlin, Correspondence, 1933-1954 . EVZ-Verlag, Zurich 1969.
  • Zofinger ideals, Christian consciousness and Reformed theology 1819–1918 . Bern, 1969.
  • Luther and the "enthusiasts" . Bern 1970.
  • The Kulturkampf in the Bernese Jura . In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde , vol. 32, no. 1 (1970), pp. 1–12.
  • Friedrich Naumann and Max Weber: Theology and Sociology in Wilhelmine Germany . Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1973.
  • with Kurt Stalder : One hundred years of the Christian Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bern . Bern, 1974.
  • (as ed. with Klaus Deppermann :) Pietism and modern times: 1976 yearbook on the history of modern Protestantism . Bielefeld: Luther-Verlag, 1977.
  • Reformation and Ecumenism . Historical Association of the Canton of Bern, Bern 1980.
  • The age of totalitarianism . Stuttgart 1981.
  • with Lukas Vischer , Albert Gasser , Rolf Weibel-Spirig : Church historiography : denominational or ecumenical? Benziger, Zurich 1982.
  • with Jan Milič Lochman , Victor Conzemius : Comenius . Freiburg, Switzerland: Imba Verlag, 1982.
  • The "Evangelical Society" in Bernese society and history of the 19th century . Bern: Wyss, 1982.
  • (as ed. with Max Geiger ): Hermann Kutter in his letters 1883-1931 . Munich: C. Kaiser, cop. 1983.
  • Karl Bernhard Hundeshagen and Bern: a German theologian in the early days of Bern University . Bern 1984.
  • Status Confessionis: Questions become questions of confession; Expert opinion written on behalf of the Synodal Council . Bern: P. Haupt, 1985.
  • with Alex Carmel : The banker Johannes Frutiger and his contemporaries: The creation and fall of the Basel company CF Spittler in Jerusalem . Göttingen 1985.
  • Status confessionis des questions qui deviennent des questions de foi . Bern 1985.
  • Swiss Protestantism - Development Lines after 1945 . In: Victor Conzemius et al. (Ed.): The time after 1945 as a subject of contemporary church history . Göttingen 1988, pp. 61-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernese families - persons. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  2. ↑ obituary portal.ch. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ Obituaries of Albert von Fellenberg-Lindt | www.sich-erinnern.ch. Retrieved on March 11, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Koechlin, Alphons. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  5. ^ N Lindt estate of Andreas Lindt (1920-1985). Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Angela Berlis, Stephan Leimgruber, Martin Sallmann : Awakening and Contradiction: Swiss Theologians in the 20th and 21st Century . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2019, ISBN 978-3-290-18147-5 ( google.de [accessed on March 11, 2020]).
  7. ^ Andreas Lindt - Personal Lexicon BL. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Angela Berlis, Stephan Leimgruber, Martin Sallmann: Awakening and Contradiction: Swiss Theologians in the 20th and 21st Century . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2019, ISBN 978-3-290-18147-5 ( google.de [accessed on March 11, 2020]).
  9. ^ Victor Conzemius, Martin Greschat, Hermann Kocher: The time after 1945 as a topic of contemporary church history: Papers at the international conference in Hünigen / Bern (Switzerland) 1985: with a bibliography by Andreas Lindt . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988, ISBN 978-3-525-55409-8 ( google.de [accessed on March 11, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Lindt, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiringen
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1985
Place of death Sigriswil