Christel Matthias Schröder

Christel Matthias Schröder (born January 16, 1915 in Elsfleth ; † March 14, 1996 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant pastor and religious scholar.

biography

Schröder was the son of a senior government councilor. He studied Protestant theology at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Marburg . He received his doctorate as Dr. phil. in Marburg. Then he worked as a pastor in Jever . In 1951 he was appointed to the second parish of the St. Ansgarii parish in Bremen- Schwachhausen . He also gave his sermons in the Low German language . He was not only a respected pastor, but also highly valued as a mediator of literature and art. Since 1961 he published the later twelve-volume work The Religions of Mankind . In 1972, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Reformation, he gave a lecture on the reformer Heinrich von Zütphen , who had given the first Reformation sermon in Bremen in 1522 in the St. Ansgarii Church.

After his retirement, Christel Matthias Schröder worked for German press research at the University of Bremen .

Publications

• Christianity and ethnic religiosity. Elsfleth, Bargmann 1933.
• Race and religion. A race and religious studies investigation. Reinhardt, Munich 1937.
• Matthias Claudius and the history of religion . Reinhardt, Munich 1941.
• The " Bremen Contributions ". Prehistory and history of a German magazine of the 18th century . Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 1956.
• as editor: Classics of Protestantism . Schünemann. Bremen 1962.
• as editor: The religions of mankind . 5 volumes, Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart since 1969.
• As editor: Siegfried Fliedner, Werner Kloos, Hans Saebens (photos): Bremen churches . Heye publishing house, Bremen 1961.
• Ebert, Johann Arnold . In: New German Biography . Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959.
• as editor: In Deo Omnia Unum. A collection of essays presented to Friedrich Heiler on his 50th birthday . Reinhardt, Munich 1942.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 , p.?.
• Horst Junginger: Christel Matthias Schröder (1915–1996) and its significance for German religious studies . In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 9, 2001, pp. 235–268 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Christel Matthias Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library