Erich Seeberg

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Erich Seeberg (born October 8, 1888 in Dorpat , † February 26, 1945 in Ahrenshoop , Western Pomerania ) was a German theologian and church historian.

life and work

As the son of the university professor Reinhold Seeberg , Erich Seeberg attended elementary school in Erlangen , then the Bismarck-Gymnasium Berlin until his Abitur in 1907 . Like his father, he studied Protestant theology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . Since 1907 he was a member of the Corps Franconia Tübingen .

After receiving his Lic. Theol. In 1913 he became a private lecturer at the Royal University of Greifswald . His nominal assignment to the Greifswald faculty ended in 1919. After his time as a division and brigade pastor, he became a professor at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in 1919 . In 1920 he moved to the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1924 he was one of the founders of the Königsberg Scholar Society . He returned to Wroclaw in the same year. In the winter semester of 1926/1927 he succeeded Friedrich Loofs at the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and in 1927 succeeded Karl Holl in Berlin. In 1941 he took over the professorship for Hans Freiherr von Soden at the Philipps University of Marburg - not at his own request . He was one of the representatives of the so-called Luther Renaissance. Seeberg's pupils included Peter Meinhold , Fritz Fischer and Otto Wolff.

As a NSDAP member and board member of the German Christians (DC), Seeberg was close to the National Socialist cultural authorities. Against the will of Hans Lietzmann and Arthur Titius he appointed in 1934 as the successor of Friedrich Mahling - on request Hermann Goering - Leonhard Fendt . In May 1935, Seeberg was relieved of the head of the faculty because of dissatisfaction in the college. His further behavior led to colleagues such as Hanns Rückert u. a. resigned from the Society for Church History. After internal quarrels, he took over the chairmanship of this company from Hans Lietzmann in 1927. His estrangement from colleagues since 1930 and the appointment of Hans-Georg Opitz to Göttingen in 1936, which he prevented, is attributed to the infiltration of National Socialist ideas that permeated the academic climate.

Seeberg was head of the Eckhart Commission of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft and chairman of the state commission for the publication of Luther's works .

From 1943 he suffered from paralysis.

Fonts

Erich Seeberg had announced a three-volume work on Luther's theology, but only two volumes have appeared: Luther's Theology. Motives and ideas, I. The view of God, Göttingen 1929 and II. Christ. Reality and archetype. Stuttgart 1937. Also: Luther's theology in its basics ² Stuttgart 1950. Essays by Erich Seeberg in the volume: Menschwerdung und Geschichte , Stuttgart oJ (1940). For a long time his work on the theologian Gottfried Arnold was regarded as the standard work : Gottfried Arnold - the science and mysticism of his time. Studies on historiography and mysticism , 1923 (Reprint 1964).

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  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 128 , 706
personal data
SURNAME Seeberg, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1945
Place of death Ahrenshoop , Pomerania