Ernst von Dobschütz

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Ernst von Dobschütz's bookplate from 1891

Ernst Adolf Alfred Oskar Adalbert von Dobschütz (born October 9, 1870 in Halle (Saale) ; † May 20, 1934 there ) was a German Protestant theologian specializing in the theology of early Christianity and the history of the old church ( patristic ). He also made important contributions to New Testament textual criticism .

family

Ernst von Dobschütz came from the old Silesian noble family von Dobschütz and was the son of the Prussian Colonel Adalbert von Dobschütz and his second wife Anna Freiin von Seckendorff . His older half-brother was the Prussian major general Carl von Dobschütz .

Dobschütz married on December 29, 1919 in Halle (Saale) Karin von Kronhelm (born March 24, 1893 in Breslau ; † May 7, 1986 in Halle), the daughter of the Prussian Major General Curt von Kronhelm and Clara Schwarz. The marriage remained childless.

In keeping with his family tradition, he was a legal knight of the Order of St. John .

Life

von Dobschütz in the regalia of a rector of the University of Halle including a rector's chain and the Order of St. John around his neck (1922)

After his youth in Wiesbaden and successfully passing his Abitur at the Royal High School there (February 13, 1888), Dobschütz began studying theology at the University of Leipzig from autumn 1888 ; his teachers were Franz Delitzsch and Christoph Ernst Luthardt . From the summer of 1890 it was registered at the University of Halle with Martin Kähler , from the fall of 1890 at the University of Berlin with Adolf von Harnack ; a seminar paper at Harnack became his licentiate dissertation (1892). In 1893 Dobschütz completed his habilitation at the University of Jena . Then from 1893 he was a private lecturer at this university until he was also a associate there in 1898. Professor was appointed. In 1904 he accepted an appointment at the University of Strasbourg in Alsace , succeeding Henry Holtzman , 1910 he became a professor at the University of Breslau in 1913 he received the call to the University Hall, at the Theological Faculty he taught until his death in 1934th Shortly after his appointment, however, he was an exchange professor at Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts) (USA) from 1913 to 1914 and made a lecture tour through the USA from there (e.g. mentioned on November 21, 1913 at the Lowell Institute , Boston ).

During the First World War , Dobschütz was the part-time secretary of the cooperative of voluntary nurses in Halle, which was founded in 1909 by the doctor Bruno Glatschke .

In the years 1922 to 1925 he was interim rector of the University of Halle three times, each for a short time , the first time from July 12, 1922 to 1923, again from April 28 to July 12, 1924 and a third time from April 1 1925 to July 12, 1925.

Ernst von Dobschütz is the author of internationally acclaimed theological textbooks and textbooks that are still used today by students and scientists of all denominations . H. Andreae wrote in a newspaper in 1944: “The Protestant theologian Ernst Adolf Alfred Oskar Adalbert von Dobschütz has gone down in the history of science as a profound researcher of religion who, moreover, understood the essence of Christianity not as a thought about God or as a culture, but as a life of love and the kingdom of God offered to all people. "

Ernst von Dobschütz as well as his mother Anna, geb. Freiin von Seckendorff, had regular correspondence with Pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh and his son of the same name , the heads of the v. Bodelschwingh institutions in Bethel .

Dobschütz died on May 20, 1934, at the age of 63, in Halle. He was buried in the Laurentiusfriedhof (field IV).

Memberships

Honors

  • Honorary member of the Society of Biblical Literature in Chico, California (USA, 1913)
  • Red Cross Medal 3rd Class (First World War)
  • Red Cross Medal 2nd Class (First World War)
  • Cross of Merit for War Aid (First World War)
  • Honorary doctorate from Uppsala University (Sweden, November 5, 1932)
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin
  • Ernst-von-Dobschütz-Weg: On May 6, 2015, the city council of Halle (Saale) unanimously decided to designate a new access road in the area of ​​the development plan no. 70.3 "Büschdorf Nord-Ost II, Am Diemitzer Graben" in Ernst-von -Dobschütz-Weg .

  • Announcement of the trial lecture in Jena on November 11, 1893

  • Invitation of the Emperor to the Palace of Strasbourg ( Palais du Rhin ) on August 30, 1908

  • Reprint title Das Urchristentum in the light of our time from 1917

  • Handover of the rector's office at the University of Halle on July 12, 1922

Fonts

  • A contribution to the Euthalius question . In: Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen , Vol. 10 (1893), pp. 49–70 ( online ).
  • Studies on the textual criticism of the Vulgate ; Leipzig: JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1894
  • Christ images. Research on the Christian legend. Texts and Studies on the history of early Christian literature ; Leipzig 1899. ( digitized version )
  • The novel in early Christian literature ; in: The Deutsche Rundschau 111 (1902)
  • The early Christian communities; Moral history images ; Leipzig: JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1902
  • The process of Jesus according to the Acta Pilati ; in: Journal of New Testament Science and Knowledge of the Older Church, 1902
  • Problems of the Apostolic Age. Five lectures in Hanover in October 1903 ; Leipzig: JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1904
  • Christian Life in the Primitive Church ; New York: Putnam's Publishing House, 1904
  • Sacrament and symbol ; in: Studies and Critics, 1905
  • The apostolic age ; Tübingen: Mohr, 1906
  • Christianity in Science and Education ; Co-authors: C. Cornill, W. Herrmann, W. Staerk; Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1908
  • Greece and Christianity ; in: Paul Herre (ed.): Christianity ; Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1908
  • The Apostolic Age ; London: Philip Green, 1909; Boston: Boston American Unitarian Association, 1910
  • The Thessalonians Letters ; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1909 (reprint 1974)
  • When did Victor of Capua read his New Testament? ; in: Journal of New Testament Science 10 (1909)
  • The Decretum Gelasianum de Libris recipiendis et non recipiendis ; Leipzig: JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1912
  • The Influence of the Bible on Civilization ; Edinburgh 1914; New York: Scribners, 1914 (Reprints: New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1959; Bertrams Print on Demand, Great Britain 2005; Lightning Source Inc. 2005)
  • Early Christianity in the light of our time ; in: Theological Studies and Criticisms, special edition for the members of the Saxon Church Conference 1917; Gotha: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1917
  • From the fourfold sense of writing. The story of a theory ; in: Harnack Honor: Contributions to the history of the church to her teacher Adolf von Harnack on his seventieth birthday (May 7, 1921) presented by a number of his students ; Leipzig 1921
  • Eberhard Nestle's Introduction to the Greek New Testament ; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1923
  • To the list of the New Testament manuscripts ; in: Journal for New Testament Science and the News of the Older Church 23 (1924), pp. 248–264; 25 (1926), pp. 299-306; 27 (1928), pp. 216-222; 32, pp. 185-206 (1933)
  • The apostle Paul; Part 1: Its significance in world history ; Halle: Orphanage bookshop, 1926
  • The New Testament ; Halle: Orphanage bookshop, 1927
  • From interpreting the New Testament. Three speeches ; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1927
  • The apostle Paul; Part 2: His position in art ; Halle: Orphanage bookshop, 1928
  • Matthew as rabbi and catechist ; in: Journal for New Testament Science and the News of the Older Church, 1928 (special print: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1980)
  • The five senses in the New Testament ; in: Journal of Biblical Literature, 1929
  • Bludau. The heretics' falsifications. Milne, The Gospels of Augustine. Glunz, The Latin template of the West Saxon. Gospel version ; in: Gnomon , Heft 5 (1929), pp. 330f .; Berlin: Verlag der Weidmannschen Buchhandlung, 1929
  • The conversion of Paul ; in: Repertory for Art History 50 (1929)
  • The Apostolicum in biblical and theological lighting ; Giessen: Toepelmann, 1932
  • Predestination ; in: Theological Studies and Criticisms 106 (1934), pp. 9f; Gotha: Leopold Klotz, 1934
  • The Bible in the life of peoples ; Witten: Luther-Verlag, 1934 (Second edition: Witten 1936).
    • The Bible in the life of peoples . Edited in a new version by Alfred Adam, Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 1954.
  • On the vocabulary and style of Romans ; in: Journal for New Testament Science and the News of the Older Church 33 (1934), p. 51f; Giessen: Alfred Töpelmann, 1934

In addition, he was the editor of several theological works.

estate

Dobschütz's estate is in the archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and has been edited by Christoph Markschies since 1996 . Dobschütz planned a scholarly Urtext edition of the New Testament Apocrypha for the Berlin church fathers corpus The Greek Christian Writers of the First Centuries . His estate contains careful manuscript inventories and edition fragments that are still usable today. Markschies is now continuing the edition of such apocrypha, based not only on the Dobschütz estate, but above all on the text editions by Edgar Hennecke (1865–1951; Handbook for the New Testament Apocrypha , Tübingen 1904) and Wilhelm Schneemelcher (1914–2003; New Testament Apocrypha in German translation , Tübingen 1959–1997).

literature

Web links

Commons : Ernst von Dobschütz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Ernst von Dobschütz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minutes of the city council meeting with biography
personal data
SURNAME Dobschütz, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dobschütz, Ernst Adolf Alfred Oskar Adalbert von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, church historian and secret consistorial councilor
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1934
Place of death Halle (Saale)