Erhard Peschke

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Erhard Peschke (born July 21, 1907 in Berlin , † January 19, 1996 in Halle ) was a German Protestant theologian and professor of church history .

Life

After attending grammar school in Berlin , he began to study theology in his home town, and later also Slavic studies at the suggestion of his doctoral supervisor Erich Seeberg . Doctorate in 1933 in Berlin and habilitation in Breslau in 1935. The academic career as a lecturer and professor for church history was interrupted by the conscription to the Wehrmacht from 1939 to 1945. After a pastor's office in Apollensdorf near Wittenberg, he held the chair for church and dogma history at the University of Rostock from 1951 to 1959 and worked at the University of Halle from 1959 until his retirement in 1972.

The focus of research was on the Bohemian Brothers , conveyed through Seeberg, and the Halle Pietism with works on August Hermann Francke and source editions on Francke.

In 1959 he received an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of Martin Luther University for his research on the Bohemian Brothers. When the Historical Commission for the Study of Pietism was founded, Peschke was appointed chairman of the East Section. In 1994, Peschke received an August Hermann Francke Prize for his services to Francke research.

Works

  • The theology of the Bohemian Brethren in their early days: the Last Supper (dissertation 1935), Stuttgart Kohlhammer 1935, 2nd edition 1940.
  • The Bohemian Brothers in the Judgment of their Time . Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1964.
  • Church and World in the Theology of the Bohemian Brethren: from the Middle Ages to the Reformation . Evang. Publishing house, Berlin 1981.
  • Studies on theology of August Hermann Francke's Volumes I and II, Evang. Publishing House, Berlin, 1964 and 1966.
  • Conversion and Reform. Approach and roots of August Hermann Francke's theology . Bielefeld 1977 ( Work on the History of Pietism Volume 15 ).
  • (Ed.): Texts on the history of Pietism Department II: August Hermann Francke: Writings and Sermons (1981, 1987 and 1989), pamphlets, sermons I + II , posthumously: Schriften zur Biblischen Hermeneutik I , 2003.
  • Die Theologie August Hermann Franckes , Bad Wildbad Verlag Linea, 2007 ISBN 978-3-939075-14-1 .

literature

  • Short biography of Christian Stephan in The Dumb Faculty , Dössel 2005, pp. 181–183.
  • Honor for Professor Peschke. Awarded the August Hermann Francke Prize 1994 , Halle 1994 (writings of the Francke Foundations, 4).
  • Arno Sames: Erhard Peschke died at the age of 89. Academic celebration in commemoration . In the university newspaper Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, April 26, 1996, 10.
  • Arno Sames: Erhard Peschke (1907-1996) in memory . In: Pietismus und Neuzeit 22 (1996), pp. 9–11.

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personal data
SURNAME Peschke, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and professor of church history
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1996
Place of death Hall