Erich Becker (theologian)

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Erich JW Ferdinand Becker (born December 5, 1883 in Düsseldorf , † October 22, 1959 ) was a German Protestant pastor, theologian and Christian archaeologist.

Life

Erich Becker was the son of the divisional pastor and Christian archaeologist Ferdinand Becker and his wife Martha nee Stahn. His maternal grandfather was a consistorial councilor. After attending the Prinz-Heinrichs-Gymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg , he went to study at the University of Tübingen in 1902, and later to Erlangen and Berlin, where he took both theological exams. He then attended the seminary in Naumburg am Queis . In 1909 he received his doctorate at the University of Erlangen Dr. theol. and in 1915 in Naumburg am Queis for Lic. theol.

From 1911 to 1914 he worked as a study inspector at the Predigerseminar in Naumburg am Queis. In December 1915 he was appointed Protestant pastor in Baldenburg in the Prussian province of West Prussia , from 1922 to 1938 Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia , where he was in office until 1941 and then moved to Berlin, where he also lived after the Second World War .

Since 1925 Becker was a corresponding member of the Archaeological Institute of the German Empire .

Honors

In 1926, Erich Becker was at the University of Greifswald Dr. theol. appointed hc.

Fonts (selection)

  • The miracle of the spring of Moses in early Christian art (= on the history of art abroad, volume 72), Strasbourg: JH Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1909.
  • Malta sotterranea. Studies on early Christian and Jewish sepulchral art (= on the history of art abroad, issue 101), Strasbourg: JH Ed. Heitz (Heitz & Mündel), 1913.
  • Resurrection of Christ or crucifixion on Christian sarcophagi? , Berlin, 1920.
  • The early Christian shepherd statuette in Catania , Berlin, 1921.
  • Gnostic influences in the ΠΑΡΘΕΝΟΙ representation of El Bagawât? , in: Journal for New Testament Science and the News of the Older Church , Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 140–144.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He probably died in (West) Berlin.
  2. ↑ Literary Weekly , Volume 1, 1925, page 605.
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Erich JW Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, theologian and Christian archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1959