Anneliese Sprengler-Ruppenthal

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Anneliese Sprengler-Ruppenthal (born Ruppenthal ; born September 13, 1923 in Altona ; † March 21, 2016 in Hamburg ) was a German church historian .

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Her father Karl Ruppenthal worked as an architect in Hamburg. The mother Helene, née Jebens, was a deaconry and community nurse in Hamburg before she got married. Sprengler-Ruppenthal attended the Klosterschule Realgymnasium in Hamburg, where he initially studied medicine in 1943 . After her parents were destroyed by British aerial bombs in July 1943, she continued her studies in Göttingen . Towards the end of the war she was called up for emergency service and worked in the Ilsenburg / Harz military hospital . After the war she was not given the place to study again because the male soldiers had the right of way. After a catechist course at the Hanover regional church , she switched to theology . During her studies, she increasingly focused on church history . In 1950 she did her doctorate under Hermann Dörries on prayers for the ruler in the early medieval West and related views in the literature at the same time . This work brought her into closer contact with the historian Percy Ernst Schramm and with history in general, so that she also covered a few semesters of history.

In the meantime, at the request of the publisher Günther Ruprecht , she had first worked on a textbook for the upper level at grammar schools together with Martin Rang: The Christ Faith , a source book on church history, which saw eight unchanged editions. Then she followed a request from Rudolf Smend to place her services in the Institute for Evangelical Canon Law of the EKD, which he directed . She was briefly employed as a secretary. For a while she worked as a consultant in the EKD's marriage law commission. Then she was given the task of editing the Lower Saxony church ordinances of the 16th century in the series that Emil Sehling had begun in 1902. Annelies Ritter had already worked on Volume VI of the entire series and Sprengler was instructed to finish it as quickly as possible. It was about the church ordinances of the Guelph lands. The volumes appeared in 1955 (VI, 1) and 1957 (VI, 2). Their actual task was to edit the church ordinances of the non-Guelph states of Lower Saxony. After working at the institute for 13 years, she completed her habilitation in 1965 at the suggestion of Ernst Wolf with a thesis on the Dutch immigrant community in London. In spring 1966 she was appointed university lecturer at the University of Göttingen , in 1970 as adjunct professor and in 1978 as university professor for church history and church legal history. After her retirement, she moved back to her hometown Hamburg at the end of 1986. At the request of Bernhard Lohse , she taught for a few more years at the theological faculty of the University of Hamburg as a visiting professor. Her work on church ordinances continued in her retirement. The focus of her research was on the importance of canon law for the formation of canon law in the Reformation. In this u. a. Collaboration on "Canon Law in Protestant Lands" initiated and edited by Richard Helmholz, Law School, University of Chicago, until 1992.

Anneliese Sprengler-Ruppenthal was with Pastor Dr. phil. Gerhard Sprengler (1899–1966) married, the pastor of today's Martin Luther Congregation of the SELK in Göttingen.

Fonts (selection)

  • Edition of the Lower Saxony church ordinances of the 16th century in: The Protestant church ordinances of the XVI. Century. Bes. Vol. VII, 1 (1963) and VII, 2 (1980).
  • Mystery and rites according to the London church order of the Dutch (1550–1565) . Vienna / Graz 1967.
  • The Bremen church ordinance of 1534, edition and investigations. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Vol. 113, Kan. Abt. LXXXII, 1996, pp. 107-126; Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Vol. 114, Kan. Dept. LXXXIII, 1997: as CD Bremen 2013 ( introduction ).
  • Collected essays on the church ordinances of the 16th century (= Ius ecclesiasticum. Vol. 74). Tuebingen 2004
  • Autobiography in three volumes. Norderstedt 2005-2007.
  • Small essays and supplements to the church ordinances of the 16th century . Hamburg 2011.
  • Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Parks. Famous people for and in Hamburg. Poems. Hamburg 2014.

literature

  • Martin Heckel : Foreword to Ius ecclesiasticum 74
  • Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen in: Journal for Protestant Church Law, Volume 55, 4, p. 465 ff. (2010)
  • Christian Traulsen in: Journal for Protestant Church Law, Volume 57.4, p. 452 f. (2012)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Anneliese Sprengler-Ruppenthal passed away ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church , accessed April 12, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.selk.de
  2. ↑ Super User: Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church | SELK - Dr. Anneliese Sprengler-Ruppenthal passed away. Accessed June 20, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Sprengler-Ruppenthal, Anneliese
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruppenthal, Anneliese (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2016
Place of death Hamburg