Bruno Wehnert

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Heinrich Gustav Bruno Wehnert (born February 2, 1875 in Berlin ; † November 1, 1959 in Hamburg-Billstedt ) was a German educator and scholar of religion and linguistics.

Life

Bruno Wehnert was born as the son of the Berlin community school principal Gustav Wehnert. After graduating from high school in 1894 at the Gray Monastery , he studied religion, Hebrew and German for higher education at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . In 1984 he became a member of the Corps Baltia Berlin . In 1899 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD. At the beginning of 1901 he passed the examination for the teaching post in secondary schools and received the teaching qualification for the first level in the subjects religion, Hebrew and German. After completing the seminar year at the Royal Seminar for City School Teachers in Berlin, he was employed as a full seminar teacher in Osterburg in 1902. In 1905 he became a senior teacher at the Oberrealgymnasium in Dortmund . In 1907 he was appointed to the Johanneum Realgymnasium in Hamburg , where he was promoted to the teaching position and appointed professor. At the end of 1934 he took early retirement.

Wehnert was the author of numerous religious-philosophical writings as well as fundamental literary secondary literature. In the 1950s he corresponded with Rudolf Bultmann in connection with his demythologizing program of the New Testament. His book Christianity - German: A Contemporary Philosophy of Christianity , published in 1936, was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in 1948 by the German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone . He was married and had a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • Goethe's rhyme , 1899
  • Rules for the preparation of German essays: an auxiliary book for high school students , 1906
  • Jesus as a symbolist , 1909
  • Science, Philosophy, Art and Religion , 1910
  • Orthodox and liberal method in religious education . In: Monthly sheets for Protestant religious instruction. Journal for the expansion and deepening of religious instruction and religious education in schools, churches and homes , 3rd year, 1910, pp. 1–10.
  • Morality and Religion , 1911
  • Apologetic lessons . In: Monthly sheets for Protestant religious instruction. Journal for the expansion and deepening of religious instruction and religious education in schools, churches and homes, 4th year, 1911, pp. 329–336.
  • Explanations of Schiller's Wallenstein's camp. The Piccolomini , 1911, 2nd improved edition 1918, 3rd improved edition 1921, 4th improved edition 1927, 5th edition 1932
  • Jesus' religion of this world , 1911
  • Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: Explained psychologically and philosophically for teachers and students , 1914
  • Six war religion lessons also for those who no longer go to school , 1915
  • Fichte's speeches to the German nation also held for the present , 1915
  • What religion did the wars teach us? , 1916
  • Reformation and teaching status , 1917
  • War and heteronomy . In: Monthly sheets for Protestant religious instruction. Journal for the expansion and deepening of religious instruction and religious education in schools, churches and homes , 10th year, 1917, pp. 39–43.
  • Luther and Kant , 1918
  • Education: Modern Religious Education , 1920
  • Explanations on Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea , 1912, 3rd improved edition 1921, 4th improved edition 1926, 5th edition 1931
  • Explanations of Schiller's "Wallenstein's Death" , 2nd edition 1919, 3rd edition 1927, 4th edition 1930
  • To discuss theory and reality . In: 19. Schopenhauer Jahrbuch 1932, pp. 65–81
  • Christianity - German: A Contemporary Philosophy of Christianity , 1936

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg-Billstedt death register, 1959, entry no.223
  2. ↑ Erwin Willmann (Ed.): Directory of the old Rudolstädter Corps students. (AH. List of the RSC.) , 1928 edition, No. 5237
  3. ↑ Bruno Wehnert personnel card
  4. ^ Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976): list of estates
  5. ↑ No. 8510 at www.polunbi.de
personal data
SURNAME Wehnert, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wehnert, Heinrich Gustav Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and scholar of religion and linguistics
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1959
Place of death Hamburg-Billstedt