Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank

FHR Frank, around 1860, photo by G. Gattineau

FHR Frank, around 1890

Franz Hermann Reinhold von Frank (born May 2, 1827 in Altenburg ; † February 7, 1894 in Erlangen ) was a Lutheran theologian (dogmatist) from Germany .

In 1848 Frank was a co-founder of the Evangelical Lutheran Student Association Philadelphia-Leipzig, which belongs to the Leuchtenburg Association founded in 1909. From 1857 he was a professor at the University of Erlangen . He came from the awakening movement of the 19th century and was an opponent of Albrecht Ritschl . In Erlangen he shaped the empirical theological approach of both Adolf von Harless and Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann and was therefore considered the dogmatic head of the Erlangen school .

literature

• Eduard Rupprecht : Privy Councilor Prof. Dr. v. Frank. A word of thankful memory for his students and admirers, 1894 (obituary).
• Wolfgang Conradi: The function of the concept of the church in Franz Hermann Reinhold V. Frank. Dissertation of the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Hamburg 1973.
• Michael Hüttenhoff : Epistemology and Dogmatics. The epistemological problem of theology in IA Dorner, Br. HR Frank and RA Lipsius (Unio and Confessio vol. 16). Bielefeld 1991.
• Notger Slenczka : Belief and its reason. Franz Hermann Reinhold von Frank, his examination of A. Ritschl and the continuation of his program by L. Ihmels . 1998
• Reinhold Seeberg :  Frank, Franz Hermann Reinhold von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 683-700.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  FRANK, Franz Hermann Reinhold. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 91-92.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank in the catalog of the German National Library