Eduard Buess

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Eduard Buess (born January 11, 1913 in Bettingen ; † October 29, 2003 in Dornach ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

Eduard Buess was the son of the theologian and economist Heinrich Buess and his wife Elise Hedwig (née Batschelet). His brother was the physician Heinrich Buess .

He grew up in his parents' house on the Chrischonahöhe ; a group of houses around the former pilgrimage church on the St. Chrischona mountain near Bettingen and in whose sacristy the St. Chrischona pilgrimage was founded in 1840 .

After completing his school education, he received his Matura in 1932 and then began training as a primary school teacher .

Because he had been shaped by the regional church of St. Chrischona , he decided in 1936 to study theology at the University of Basel , where he mainly heard lectures from Karl Barth . After completing his studies, he was pastor in Strengelbach from 1942 to 1954 and in Biel-Benken from 1954 to 1973 . During this period he published in 1948 his dissertation Jeremias Gotthelf : his understanding of God and man and his habilitation in 1952 in Basel with the story of the mythical knowledge that in 1953 appeared in print.

There was no professorship at the University of Wuppertal , for which Karl Barth advocated Wilhelm Niesel in 1958, but from 1959, as the successor to Eduard Thurneysen, he became an associate professor for practical theology, especially homiletics , at the theological faculty of the University of Basel; In 1973 he resigned from his pastor's office and concentrated exclusively on teaching.

Eduard Buess was married to Elisabeth (née Frei) since 1942. The names of her children are known:

He died a day before his friend, the historian Markus Mattmüller .

Political activity

In the later years of his life he turned to political questions and fought against the construction and operation of nuclear power plants , dealt with Marxism and defended creation against the technical striving for omnipotence. On his 60th birthday, he still joined the anti-nuclear movement and the socialist church members in Basel.

Fonts (selection)

  • The history of mythical knowledge: against its misunderstanding in the “demythologization” . Munich: C. Kaiser, 1953.
  • The Church directions . Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag, 1953.
  • On Karl Barth's doctrine of predestination . Zollikon (ZH): Evangelischer Verlag, 1955.
  • The dispute over nuclear energy . 1978.
  • God's kingdom for this earth. World responsibility out of faith and the challenge of Marxism . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1981. ISBN 978-3-7887-0626-5 .
  • On the theology of the Holy Spirit . Munich Kaiser 1981.
  • Who's Afraid of Karl Marx? : Of the bourgeois' uneasiness in ourselves; World fame from the misery of an existence; The analysis of the great industrial epoch of alienation; The system change action strategy . Association "Friends of the New Ways" 1984.
  • Eduard Buess: Dear, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 472 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Maranatha - "Our Lord is coming!": The meaning and topicality of the early Christian expectation . Neukirchen-Vluyn: Aussaat-Verlag, 1992.
  • Eduard Buess; Rudolf Bohren : The time is near: Christian hope at the end of the 20th century . Neukirchen-Vluyn: Aussaat-Verlag, 1996.
  • Eduard Buess, Markus Mattmüller: Prophetic Socialism. Blumhardt - Ragaz - Barth. Edition Exodus, Lucerne 1986, ISBN 3-905575-22-1 .
  • The picture of the woman with Jeremias Gotthelf . Basel: F. Reinhardt, 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Freudenberg, Hans-Georg Ulrichs: Karl Barth and Wilhelm Niesel: Correspondence 1924–1968 . S. 260. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 978-3-647-56019-9 ( google.de [accessed on November 5, 2019]).
  2. ^ Buess, Eduard - Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Biel-Benkemer Dorf-Zytig v. June 28, 2019, pp. 3 and 35. 2019, accessed November 5, 2019 .
  4. ^ Willy Spieler : Obituary: Markus Mattmüller (1928-2003). In: New Paths: Contributions to Religion and Socialism, Issue 12. 2003, accessed on November 5, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 7.049.06. Eduard Buess - Topic: Atomic Energy / 7.049. Eduard Buess / Section 7: Publications / Documentation / Home - Atomfrei. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Buess, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buess, Edi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Bettingen
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 2003
Place of death Dornach