Ernst Barnikol

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Ernst Barnikol (born March 21, 1892 in Barmen ; † May 4, 1968 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian in the field of church history .

Life

Ernst Barnikol was the son of a car manufacturer and was initially trained at a school in his hometown. He then attended a school in Koblenz , where he passed his Abitur in 1910 . He then studied history , German , philosophy and theology at the Universities of Tübingen , Marburg and Berlin , and from 1914 to 1916 at the University of Utrecht . He then went back to Marburg, where he 1916 Doctor of Philology doctorate was. In 1916 and 1917 he served as a soldier in guard duty. That year he passed his theological state examination .

In 1917 Barnikol became an assistant pastor in Wesseling . In Marburg he received his theology license in 1920 and his habilitation in 1921 at the theological faculty of the University of Bonn in the field of early Christianity . That year he was hired as a private lecturer for the New Testament , and the next year he also taught church history. In 1923 he received a teaching assignment for contemporary New Testament history from the university , but in the following year he again acted as a private lecturer and gave up the position in Wesseling.

In 1928 Barnikol was appointed full professor for the church and history of early Christianity at the University of Kiel . During this time he wrote some writings and also edited sources by socialists such as Wilhelm Weitling . Because of this, he was appointed full professor at the theological faculty of the University of Halle in 1929 .

In the Weimar Republic , Barnikow was politically active in the left-wing liberal DDP , of which he was a member of the Reich Party Committee from 1928 to 1930.

In 1933, at the church elections, Barnikol had to pay a fine for causing a political dispute in his community. He was not generally hostile to the church politics of National Socialism . During the Nazi era he belonged to the Nazi Lecturer Association and the National Socialist People's Welfare .

In August 1945 he was a representative of the SPD; he had joined the SPD on July 7, 1945, the anti-fascist university committee that aimed to denazify the university. He had contributed to the fact that writings by Karl Marx , which appeared in the Weimar Republic, were still available in the library of the theological faculty of the University of Halle after its reopening in 1945/46 and could be used by the students. By the forced merger of the SPD with the KPD he became in 1946 member of the SED, but resigned 29 September 1948 from the party. Later, Barnikol was also briefly chairman of the university's main works council. His work at the university was not without controversy. It was claimed that he was a member of the Reichsführer SS security service , which later turned out to be untrue. Disputes with the Socialist Unity Party of Germany followed in the 1950s. However, these could not revoke his professorship. 1960 he finally stepped into the retirement and died in 1968 at the age of 76 years in Halle. Barnikol's grave is in the Laurentius Cemetery .

Works

  • Studies on the history of the brothers from common life. The 1st period of the German Brethren Movement: The time of Heinrich von Ahaus. A contribution to the development and organization of religious life on German soil in the late Middle Ages (1917)
  • Christianity discovered in the pre-March period. Bruno Bauer's fight against religion and Christianity and first edition of his combat pamphlet (1927)
  • Weitling, the prisoner and his "justice". A critical study of the work and nature of the early socialist messiah (1929)
  • Paul's three journeys to Jerusalem. The real concordance of the Pauline letters of the we-sources of the Acts of the Apostles (1929)
  • The pre-Christian and early Christian times of Paul. According to his historical and geographical self-testimony in Galatians (1929)
  • The non-Pauline origin of the parallelism of the apostles Paul and Peter (Gal. 2, 7-8) (1931)
  • Person problems of the Acts of the Apostles, Johannes Markus, Silas and Titus. Investigation into the structure of the Acts of the Apostles and the authorship of the we-sources (1931)
  • Romans 15. Paul's last destinations. Jerusalem, Rome and Antioch. Preliminary investigations into the origin of the so-called Romans (1931)
  • Prolegomena to the history of dogmas in the New Testament. 1. Man and Messiah. The Non-Pauline Origin of Pre-Existence Christology; 2. Phil. 2. The Marcionian origin of the myth sentence Phil. 2, 6-7 (1932)
  • The Origin of the Church in the 2nd Century and the Time of Marcion (1933)
  • Back to the old belief. Jesus the christ. Evangelical call to German theologians and laypeople (1933)
  • Apostolic and New Testament dogma history as a pre-dogma history (1933, expanded edition 1938)
  • Trip to Spain and Letter to the Romans (1934)
  • German Christian Bible. The Gospel in Luther German as a history of salvation. Handout for the community and for seekers (1934)
  • Paul's Incarnation in Galilee and the Calling to the Apostles before Damascus and in the Temple (1935)
  • Responsibility, Legacy and Mission of the German Evangelical Church (1938)
  • The deacon office as the oldest body and pastoral care uniting office in the community (1941)
  • Luther from an evangelical perspective. Lectures (1954)
  • The life of Jesus in salvation history (1958)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biographical note in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis , accessed on December 19, 2016.
  2. ↑ Manfred Heinemann (Ed.) University officers and the reconstruction of the university system in Germany 1945-1949. The Soviet zone of occupation , Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2000, contemporary witness: Elchlepp, a law student at the time, p. 243; ISBN 3-05-002851-3
personal data
SURNAME Barnikol, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian in the field of church history
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH 4th May 1968
Place of death Halle (Saale)