Bruno Violet

Edouard Albert Bruno Violet ( April 4, 1871 - May 10, 1945 in Linthe , Brandenburg) was a German Protestant theologian. In 1900 and 1901 he examined Greek manuscripts on behalf of Hermann von Soden in the treasury of the Umayyad mosque . From 1903 to 1909 some could be loaned to Berlin.

In 1917 he became a pastor at the Friedrichswerder Church in Berlin. From 1927 to 1936 he was chairman of the Berlin regional association of the Evangelical Federation . In September 1933 he was a co-founder of the Pastors' Emergency League and the Confessing Church and worked at their church college in Berlin. In 1941 he was sentenced to a heavy fine in the trial against the Berlin-Brandenburg administration of the BK. In 1943 he was dismissed from the parish. In 1945 he died of a gastric bleeding.

Karl May met him in Beirut in 1900 . Violet accompanied him and Klara May to Damascus .

Fonts

• About the Palestinian Martyrs of Eusebius of Caesarea , 1896
• A bilingual psalm fragment from Damascus , 1902
• The Ezra Apocalypse (IV.Ezra) .: The Tradition, 1910
• The Church Leaving Movement , 1914
• Around the turn of the century in Damascus: A research trip , 1936
• The Origin of the Old Testament , 1941

literature

• Cordula Bandt, Arndt Rattmann: Bruno Violet's trip to Damascus 1900/1901 to research the Qubbet el-Chazne , in: Codices manuscripti & impressi , 76/77, 2011, pp. 1-20
• Manfred Gailus (ed.): Church administrative assistance. The churches and the persecution of the Jews in the “Third Reich” . Göttingen 2008, p. 25
• Kurt Treu : Major fragments of the Septuagint from Damascus , in: News of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. Historical-philological class. 1966, 6, pp. 203-221

Web links

• Writings by Bruno Violet on worldcat.org
• Digital writings by Bruno Violet on deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
• Bruno Violet on karl-may-wiki

Remarks

1. ↑ Handbook of the Evangelical Churches 1918 to 1949 , 2010, p. 442