Ernst Wilhelm Kohls
Ernst Wilhelm Kohls (born October 24, 1931 in Stettin ; † July 2001 ) was a German theologian and church historian.
From 1954 to 1958 Ernst Wilhelm Kohls studied Protestant theology in Erlangen and Göttingen. From 1962 to 1966 he was a research assistant to Wilhelm Maurer in Erlangen. In 1962 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg its graduation to the Dr. theol. In 1966 he received the Venia legendi for the subject historical theology. In 1967 he was ordained in the Evangelical Church in Hanover and appointed university lecturer in Erlangen in the same year. In 1969 he became Scientific Councilor and Professor of Historical Theology at the Philipps University of Marburg . He retired in 1994.
His main research interests were a. Studies on Martin Luther and Martin Bucer , the relationship between the Reformation and humanism, as well as the history of the Southwest German Reformation.
Since the 1968 student movement, Ernst Wilhelm Kohls had been mentally burdened in a way that no longer allowed him to research and teach in the traditional sense.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Wilhelm Kohls in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary ( memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) of the Protestant Theology department of the Philipps University of Marburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kohls, Ernst Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and church historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 2001 |