Ferdinand H. Barth

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Ferdinand H. Barth (born June 14, 1932 in Darmstadt ; † September 23, 2005 there ) was co-founder and rector of the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, today's Evangelical University of Darmstadt .

Life

Ferdinand Barth came from an established butcher family with a shop at Pankratiusstrasse 22 in Darmstadt's Martinsviertel . As the first academic in the family, he studied theology in Tübingen and Heidelberg . He took up his pastoral work in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau in Ober-Ramstadt and Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . From 1963 to 1968 he worked as a scientific consultant at the denominational institute in Bensheim . Meanwhile, he spent ten months reporting for the Materials Service at the Second Vatican Council in Rome.

Barth began teaching in 1968 at the Higher Technical School for Religious Education at Darmstadt's Elisabethenstift , which he took over as the director of Sister Ria Ratz in 1969. The seminar was merged into the newly founded Evangelical University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (EFHD) in 1970 . Barth was responsible for the conceptual design and became the founding dean of the department of ecclesiastical community practice , which he again headed from 1995 to 1997. In 1980 the state of Hesse confirmed his teaching activities with the appointment of professor for systematic theology and religious education, which he carried out after his retirement in 1997. From 1986 to 1990 he was rector of the EFHD.

In 1990 Ferdinand Barth founded Bogen-Verlag Darmstadt as the central publishing location of EFHD. Barth was president of the conference of the theological and religious education departments at Protestant universities of applied sciences. From 1989 to 1996 he was chairman of the Evangelical Federation of Hesse and Nassau , of which he was a board member from 1978 to 2005, and was a member of the Presidium of the Evangelical Federation . Other engagements included the parament workshop at Darmstadt's Elisabethenstift, whose support association he headed until his death, and the church music association at the Darmstadt city church, to which, like the Darmstadt choir, he belonged for decades. He led over twenty study trips to Rome.

Publications (selection)

  • Ed: Unfinished Reformation: Paths to Community Education , Darmstadt 1995 (sheet), ISBN 3-920606-10-8
  • Church and parish pedagogy or: The parish pedagogical question about the structural heresy of the pastoral church . Darmstadt 1998 (sheet), ISBN 3-920606-21-3
  • Ed. With Claus Narowski: Politics for the university in the European house . Festschrift for Winfried Seelisch, Darmstadt 2003 (sheet), ISBN 3-920606-34-5
  • The divine comedy . Explained by Ferdinand Barth based on the translation by Walter Naumann, Darmstadt 2004 (WBG), ISBN 3-534-16342-7

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  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Barth, Ferdinand H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian; Co-founder and Rector of the Evangelical University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt (EFHD)
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 2005
Place of death Darmstadt