Arnold Ehrhardt

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Arnold Anton Traugott Ehrhardt (born May 14, 1903 in Königsberg , † February 18, 1965 in Manchester ) was a German lawyer and British theologian.

Life

Ehrhardt was the son of the Protestant surgery professor Oscar Ehrhardt and his wife, the teacher Martha, née Rosenhain, who was of Jewish origin. He attended the Königliche Friedrichs-Kollegium in Königsberg and studied law in Erlangen , Bonn , Berlin and Königsberg. After the end of the First World War in 1919/1920 he served at the Border Guard East , where he took part in the fight against Spartakists, and was later a member of the Black Reichswehr . He received his doctorate in Königsberg at the end of 1926, initially worked as a free academic assistant to Fritz Pringsheim in Göttingen from 1927 and completed his habilitation in Freiburg in 1929 for civil and Roman law . He took over a professorship in Frankfurt , where he was re-qualified in May 1933. As a " half-Jew " he was threatened with dismissal. In the winter semester of 1934/35 he taught at the University of Lausanne . When his lectures in Frankfurt were boycotted in the summer semester of 1935, he confessed to his Jewish origins, which had been kept secret until then.

He moved to Lörrach to study theology with Karl Barth in neighboring Basel . When he learned of his impending arrest in early 1939, he stayed in Switzerland and emigrated to England . With financial help from the Church of England , he continued his theology studies - after a short break due to internment as an "enemy alien" in May 1940 - at the University of Cambridge and completed it in 1944 with a Ph.D. He served as an assistant curate in a parish in Manchester . In addition, he worked scientifically in the field of church and legal history and published mainly in German. From 1956 at the latest he was active as an Anglican pastor ( Reverend ) in Heywood . In 1958 he was appointed Bishop Fraser Senior Lecturer in Church History at the University of Manchester ; the Ehrhardt seminar at the Center for Biblical Studies there bears his name. He turned down offers of recall to chairs at the law faculties of the Philipps University of Marburg in 1951 and the Goethe University of Frankfurt in 1957.

Fonts (selection)

  • Traditi ex iusta causa Königsberg 1928
  • Justa Causa traditionis , An investigation into the acquisition of property under Roman law , Berlin 1930
  • Romance studies , Freiburg 1935
  • Litis Aestimatio in the Roman Form Process: An Investigation of the Substantive Consequences of the Conviction of Money , Munich 1934
  • Adoption of Christianity in the Roman Empire .
  • Constantine, Rome and the Rabbis , Manchester
  • The apostolic succession in the first two centuries of the church , London 1953
  • The Eucharistic Words of Jesus (with Joachim Jeremias) Oxford 1955
  • The framework of the New Testament stories Cambridge 1964
  • The beginning: a study in the Greek philosophical approach to the concept of creation from Anaximander to St John , Manchester 1968
  • Political Metaphysics from Solon to Augustin , Vol. 1 (1969) Civitas Dei ; Vol. 2 (1959) The Christian Revolution ; Vol. 3 (1959) The city of God of the Greeks and Romans
  • Christianity before the Apostles' Creed , Manchester 1962

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Ludwig and Eberhard Röhm . Baptized Evangelical - persecuted as "Jews" . Calver Verlag Stuttgart 2014 p. 88
  2. ^ Leonie Breunung, Manfred Walther: The emigration of German-speaking jurists from 1933 , Berlin / Boston 2012, p. 415
  3. ^ Heywood Thomas: Arnold Ehrhardt, A Menoir (preface to: Arnold Ehrhardt: The Beginning, A Study in the Greek philosophical approach tot the concept of Creation from Anaximander to St. John , Manchester 1968
  4. ^ Leonie Breunung, Manfred Walther: The emigration of German-speaking jurists from 1933 , Berlin / Boston 2012, p. 576
  5. ^ Website of the University of Manchester
  6. ^ Leonie Breunung, Manfred Walther: The emigration of German-speaking jurists from 1933 , Berlin / Boston 2012, p. 576
personal data
SURNAME Ehrhardt, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrhardt, Arnold Anton Traugott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian, English theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1965
Place of death Manchester