Bernhard Klaus

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Bernhard Klaus (born February 12, 1913 in Falkenhain , Brandenburg province ; † September 25, 2008 in Erlangen ) was a German theologian and university professor in Erlangen.

Life

Bernhard Klaus began to study Protestant theology and musicology at the Bethel Church University and the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In 1932 he became active in the Corps Neoborussia Halle . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , which made him D. theol. PhD . The dissertation on the liturgy opened up the doctrine of worship as his special field of work.

After the Second World War , Klaus was a pastor in Weißenburg in Bavaria , then a religion teacher in Erlangen, where he wrote a habilitation thesis on the Nuremberg reformer Veit Dietrich . In 1959 he was initially appointed associate professor at the theological faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University . In 1964 he took over the chair for practical theology , which he held until 1980. Following a suggestion from the Bavarian regional synod of the Protestant Church in 1964, he founded the first and so far only university department for Christian journalism in Erlangen in 1966 . Your task should be to analyze the essential laws of technical media and to examine the possibilities they offered for preaching , teaching and pastoral care . The message of the church should also reach people in new forms who no longer attended church services, but who were available for church radio and television broadcasts. Klaus summarized his views on this in his book Mass Media in the Service of the Church , published in 1969 . Other focal points of his scientific work were liturgy and homiletics .

Klaus was an honorary doctor of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and honorary chairman of the non-profit association of lecturers and media representatives, which forms the basis for the Christian Publizistik Verlag , founded in 1999 .

He later became a member of the Corps Ratisbonia Munich (1953) and the Corps Transrhenania Munich (1970). In the late 1970s, he left all three corps.

Works (selection)

  • Veit Dietrich. Life and Work , Nuremberg 1958.
  • Mass media in the service of the Church , Berlin 1970.
  • with Klaus Winkler : Funeral homiletics. Mourning assistance, faith assistance and life assistance for the bereaved as a service of the church , Munich 1975.
  • Christmas time. History-Legends-Customs , Hof 1989.
  • Ancient heritage and Christian worship. A search for traces of cultural history , Stuttgart 1998.
  • From college of professors to the faculty club of the Friedrich-Alexander-University , Erlangen / Nuremberg 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 54/433.
  2. ^ Department of Christian Journalism in the Theology Department ( memento from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 11, 2016.
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 112/444; 115/619.
  4. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 106, 451 (Neoborussia), there no longer mentioned as a member of Transrhenania; Kösener Corpslisten 1981, 112, 444 (Ratisbonia).
personal data
SURNAME Klaus, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenhain , Brandenburg
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2008
Place of death gain