August Klostermann

August Klostermann (born May 16, 1837 in Steinhude , † February 11, 1915 in Kiel ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor .

Life

August Klostermann studied 1855–58 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1855 he joined the Erlanger and later also the Kiel and Berlin Wingolf .

From the spring of 1859 he was a teacher in Bückeburg and five years later he became a repetitionist . As such, he accepted a position as a private lecturer in theology at the Georg August University of Göttingen . In 1868 he switched to the same subject as full professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1885/86 and 1898/99 he was its rector . His rectorate speech on March 5, 1885 dealt with the fear of God as the main part of wisdom . The New Testament scholar, patristician and philologist Erich Klostermann was his son.

The Gospel of Mark according to its source value for evangelical history . Goettingen 1867.
Studies on Old Testament Theology . Gotha 1868.
Corrections to the previous explanation in Romans . Gotha 1881.
Problems in the apostolic text, discussed again . Gotha 1883.
Hermann Leberecht Strack , Otto Zöckler (ed.): The books of Samuelis and the kings laid out . Nördlingen 1887 (Brief Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments and on the Apocrypha ).

Dirck Ackermann: August Klostermann and the Pentateuch. A contribution to the history of research on the Pentateuch problem (Neukirchen theological dissertations and habilitations; vol. 14). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1997, ISBN 3-7887-1639-8 (zugl. Kiel, Univ., Modified diss., 1995/96).
Georg Sauer: Klostermann, August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 88-89. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )