Bernhard Walde

Bernhard Walde (born November 2, 1886 in Munich , † December 11, 1938 in Breslau ) was a German Catholic theologian and Old Testament scholar .

Walde studied philosophy at the Lyzeum Passau and theology at the University of Munich as an alumne of the Ducal Georgianum . In 1911 he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD in Munich. On September 29, 1911 he was ordained a priest in Passau . From 1913 he studied at the University of Berlin and received his habilitation in Munich in 1916. There he taught as a private lecturer in Old Testament exegesis and Biblical- Oriental languages . In 1921 he became associate professor for Old Testament exegesis and biblical-oriental languages with a teaching position for theological encyclopedia and the history of religion . In 1924 he moved to the Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen , where he became full professor in 1931. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1937 he changed professor of Old Testament exegesis to the University of Breslau . From 1930 to 1938 he was co-editor of the Biblical Journal . He was a specialist in the Hebraists in the late Middle Ages .

Fonts

The Esras Books of the Septuagint. Your mutual relationship , Freiburg i. Br. 1913 (= diss.)
Christian Hebraists in Germany at the end of the Middle Ages (ATA 6), Münster 1916 (= Habil.) New 2010 ISBN 1149320931
(Ed.), Johannes Eck . Explanatio psalmi vigesimi (1538) (CCath 13), Münster 1928

Adalbert Vogel: Art. Bernhard Walde , in: LThK2 10 (1965) p. 932
Thomas Groll: The Philosophical-Theological University of Dillingen , in: Dominik Burkard / Wolfgang Weiß (ed.): Catholic Theology in National Socialism , Vol. 1/1 Institutions and Structures, Würzburg 2007, pp. 395-417

personal data
SURNAME	Walde, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Catholic theologian and Old Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	November 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1938
Place of death	Wroclaw