Erwin Preuschen
Erwin Friedrich Ferdinand Wilhelm Preuschen (born January 8, 1867 in Lißberg , † May 25, 1920 in Hausen near Gießen) was a German Protestant theologian, mainly in the fields of New Testament and church history .
Life
Erwin Preuschen was born the son of a pastor, passed his Abitur in Gießen and studied theology there from 1886 to 1889 and then attended the seminary in Friedberg . After the church examination, he became a research assistant to Adolf von Harnack . He received his doctorate in 1894 at the philosophical faculty and between 1894 and 1897 held various pastoral positions in Hesse, most recently as pastor at the Darmstadt court church. From 1897 to 1908 he was a religion teacher at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt. In 1904 he received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty in Giessen. From 1908 to 1918 he was pastor in Hirschhorn am Neckar, from 1914 he was also a substitute professor at Heidelberg University. In 1918 he was appointed associate professor for territorial church history in Giessen. A planned appointment as full professor for the New Testament in Giessen was no longer possible because Erwin Preuschen suddenly died on May 25, 1920 of a stomach ailment.
The agricultural scientist Gerhardt Preuschen was his son.
Significance for theology
The Greek-German pocket dictionary on the New Testament published by Erwin Preuschen is still used today as a standard work. Erwin Preuschen founded the magazine for New Testament science , which is also published to this day, and was its first editor. In his books and above all in numerous articles, Prussia dealt with the text and the canon of the New Testament, with the Apocrypha to the New Testament and Gnosis, with the history of the Old Church (including Euseb, Tertullian and Origen) and with the history of the Hessian territorial church.
Fonts (selection)
- Analecta Shorter texts on the history of the old church and the canon, Mohr, Freiburg i. Br. And Leipzig 1893.
- Monasticism and the cult of Sarapis : A treatise on the history of religion, 2nd edition. Ricker'sche Giessen 1903.
- Complete Greek-German concise dictionary on the writings of the New Testament and other early Christian literature, Töpelmann, Giessen 1910.
- Tatian's Diatessaron translated from Arabic with an introductory treatise and critical notes ed. by August Pott. Winters, Heidelberg 1926.
literature
- Klaus-Gunther Wesseling : Preuschen, Erwin Friedrich Ferdinand Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 938-941.
Web links
- Literature by and about Erwin Preuschen in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prussia, Erwin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prussia, Erwin Friedrich Ferdinand Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lißberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1920 |
| Place of death | Hausen (Pohlheim) |