Carl Clemen

Carl Clemen (born March 30, 1865 in Sommerfeld near Leipzig , † July 8, 1940 in Bonn ) was a German Protestant theologian and religious historian.

Clemen was the son of the senior church councilor Christian August Julius Clemen (1838-1920) and his wife. His brothers were the art historian Paul Clemen (1866–1947) and the historian Otto Clemen (1871–1946).

After attending school from 1878 and graduating from high school in 1884 at the Princely School in Grimma , Carl Clemen studied Protestant theology in Leipzig, Tübingen, Halle and Berlin . He completed his habilitation in 1892 at the University of Halle . From 1910 he was associate professor and from 1920 full professor for the New Testament and the history of religion at the University of Bonn .

Fonts (selection)

The Christian doctrine of sin . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1897
Paul, his life and work . 2 vols. Gießen: Ricker, 1904
The making of the New Testament . Leipzig: Göschen 1906 (2nd edition 1926)
To reform practical theology . Giessen: Töpelmann, 1907
Explanation of the history of religion in the New Testament: the dependence of the oldest Christianity on non-Jewish religions and philosophical systems . Giessen: A. Töpelmann 1909 (reprint of the new edition 1924: Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 1973)
Source book for practical theology . 3 vols. Giessen: Töpelmann 1910
Lively communities: Festschrift Emil Sulze for his 80th birthday on February 26, 1912 . Giessen: Töpelmann, 1912
The Influence of the Mystery Religions on the Eldest Christian . Giessen: Töpelmann 1913
Life after death in the faith of humanity . Leipzig; Berlin: Teubner 1920
Religious history of Europe . 2 vols. Heidelberg: Carl Winter 1926–31
The religions of the earth: their essence u. their story . Munich: F. Bruckmann 1927 (new edition 1966)
Prehistoric religion: The religion of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages . Bonn: Röhrscheid 1932–33
Outline of the philosophy of religion . Bonn: Röhrscheid, 1934

literature

Ulrich Vollmer: Carl Clemen (1865–1940) as emeritus , in: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 9 (2001), pp. 185–203; doi : 10.1515 / 0033.185 .
Heinz Horst Schrey: Clemen, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 280 ( digitized version ).
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Clemen, Carl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1046-1047. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Clemen - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Carl Clemen in the catalog of the German National Library
www.zfr-online.de/doc/012-vollmer.html

Individual evidence

↑ Jonas Flöter and Marita Pesenecker: Education for the Elite. The Princely and State Schools of Grimma, Meißen and Schulpforte around 1900 . Publication for the exhibition in the district museum Grimma. Leipzig 2003, p. 99, ISBN 3-937209-33-6

personal data
SURNAME	Clemen, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and historian of religion
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sommerfeld near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	July 8, 1940
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Jonas Flöter and Marita Pesenecker: Education for the Elite. The Princely and State Schools of Grimma, Meißen and Schulpforte around 1900 . Publication for the exhibition in the district museum Grimma. Leipzig 2003, p. 99, ISBN 3-937209-33-6