Carl Andresen

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Carl Heinrich Andresen (born July 28, 1909 in Agerskov ( North Schleswig ), † June 21, 1985 in Göttingen ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Life

Carl Andresen studied Protestant theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . From 1932 to 1940 he worked as a pastor in Sörup , from 1940 to 1947 in military service and as a Soviet prisoner of war. From 1948 to 1956 he worked as a hospital chaplain in Kiel . In 1951 he was at the University of Kiel for Doctor of theology doctorate. He completed his habilitation in Kiel in 1953 and became a private lecturer . In 1956 he became full professor for New Testament and Old Church History including Christian Archeology at the Philipps University of Marburg . In 1961 he went to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen as a professor of church history , where he also founded a Christian-Archaeological Department . In 1977 he retired .

Andresen became a member of the Mommsen Society (1955), the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas (1958) and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (1962). He was also one of the founders of the Patristic Commission in 1960 . He was co-editor of the Lexicon of the Old World . In the field of church history he was considered one of the most prominent scholars in Germany. In addition, he dealt with Christian archeology. His academic students include Gernot Wießner and his long-time assistant Adolf Martin Ritter . One daughter is Henriette Piper .

Fonts

  • Logos and Nomos. The polemics of Kelsos against Christianity (= work on church history, volume 30). de Gruyter, Berlin 1955.
  • On the Augustine Conversation of the Present. With bibliography . Scientific Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1962 [also: Wienand, Cologne 1962].
    • Bibliography also published separately: Bibliographia Augustiniana . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1962.
  • History of Christianity I. From the beginnings to high scholasticism (= Theological Science Vol. 6). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1975.
    • [New edition, ed. by Adolf Martin Ritter]: History of Christianity I. Antiquity . 1993; 2. II. Early Middle Ages - High Middle Ages . 1995.
  • Introduction to Christian Archeology . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971, ISBN 3-525-52302-5 (The Church in its History, Delivery B, Part 1, Volume 1).
  • with Georg Denzler : Dictionary of Church History . Kösel, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-466-20227-2 .
    • Italian edition: Dizionario storico del cristianesimo . Ed. Paoline, Milan 1992, ISBN 88-215-2450-7 .
    • Polish edition: Leksykon historii Kościoła . Świat Ksia̜żki, Warsaw 2005, ISBN 83-7391-546-X .
    • Reprinted as a dtv dictionary of church history . dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-03245-6 .
    • updated licensed edition as dictionary of church history . marix, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-23-1 .
  • Theology and Church on the horizon of antiquity. Collected essays on the history of the old church (= work on church history, vol. 112). Edited by Peter Gemeinhardt . de Gruyter, Berlin [a. a.] 2009. ISBN 978-3-11-021642-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Justin and Middle Platonism .
  2. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Logos and Nomos. The polemic of Kelsos against Christianity .
personal data
SURNAME Andresen, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Andresen, Carl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Agerskov
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1985
Place of death Goettingen