Erich Klostermann

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Erich Klostermann (born February 14, 1870 in Kiel , † September 18, 1963 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant New Testament scholar , but is also considered a capable patristic and philologist , who was particularly known for his New Testament comments.

Life

His father was the Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar August Klostermann (1837-1915), who was a professor in Kiel. Erich Klostermann in 1892 at the Philological Faculty of the University of Kiel with a thesis on the book of Ecclesiastes ( versione De libri Coheleth Alexandrina ) PhD . After completing his doctorate, he met Adolf Harnack , who won him over to the Church Fathers Commission of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . There he published a number of writings on Origen and Eusebius . He published several texts in the series of The Greek Christian Writers of the First Three Centuries . The Berlin theological faculty awarded him an honorary licentiate . Until 1901 habilitation he was and in 1907 associate professor of New Testament and early Christian literature. In 1911 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena , and in 1911 he was appointed full professor at the University of Strasbourg .

In 1905 he was recruited by Hans Lietzmann to collaborate on the New Testament manual . There he published comments on Markus 1907, Matthew 1909 and Luke 1919. The comments were revised again and again and were highly praised.

In addition to his professorship in Strasbourg, he served as a hospital chaplain during the First World War . After the end of the war, he and the rest of the professorships were expelled from Strasbourg. In 1919 he came to the University of Münster and in 1923 to the University of Königsberg . In 1927 he was appointed a corresponding member of the Berlin Academy and in 1928 appointed to the University of Halle . In Halle he resumed his work on the commentaries and dealt with Origen's commentary on Mathäus. Here he got support from his own patristic institute. After Harnack's death, from 1931 he was co-editor of the texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature . The retirement took place in 1936, but he undertook a new edition of the Homilies of Makarios - Symeon , which he was however no longer able to complete.

Klostermann was involved in nationalist-conservative parties. In 1911 he was a member of the Prussian Free Conservative Party and was a co-founder of a party to the right of liberalism in Alsace. After 1918 he joined the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten . Until 1928 was a member of the German National People's Party . After 1945 he became a member of the CDU .

Erich Klostermann was buried in the Laurentiusfriedhof in Halle.

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SURNAME Klostermann, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, New Testament scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1963
Place of death Halle (Saale)