Friedrich Büchsel

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Friedrich Büchsel (born July 2, 1883 in pieces , † May 5, 1945 in Rostock ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Friedrich Büchsel was born as the son of the pastor and later general superintendent Johannes Büchsel in Stücken (today a district of Michendorf ) near Potsdam. He attended the grammar school in Cottbus and the grammar school Paulinum in Münster. From 1901 he studied theology at the University of Tübingen . After two semesters, Büchsel moved to the University of Halle , where he took his first theological exam in 1904. The second theological examination followed in 1907 in Stettin . Büchsel then completed his doctorate with the dissertation The Christology of Revelation Johannes to Dr. theol.

Friedrich Büchsel began his professional career as an inspector at the Predigerseminar Soest . From 1909 he worked in the same position in the Tholuck Konvikt in Halle (Saale) . In June 1911 he completed his habilitation at the University of Halle with the work The Concept of Truth in the Gospel and the Letters of John for the subject New Testament. A first draft was rejected by Wilhelm Lütgert in 1910 . The rejection was justified with the accusation of a tendency towards "speculative theology". Afterwards Büchsel worked as a private lecturer in Halle.

In the First World War Friedrich Büchsel was used as a field pastor. He was the bearer of the Iron Cross, 2nd class. In 1916 he received an associate's position at the University of Greifswald and in 1918 a full professorship at the University of Rostock . Friedrich Büchsel was a member of the German National People's Party and the National Socialist Teachers' Association . He was shot by looters in the confusion of the end of the war and died of the injuries.

Fonts (selection)

  • JG spruce. Ideas about God and Immortality. Two lectures on the philosophy of religion from the time before the atheism dispute . Leipzig: Felix Meiner 1914
  • Church and Social Democracy . Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann 1921
  • The Christology of the Letter to the Hebrews . Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann 1922
  • The Spirit of God in the New Testament . Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann 1926
  • John and Hellenistic Syncretism . Gütersloh: C. Bertelsmann 1928
  • The Epistles of John (Theological Commentary on the New Testament 17). Leipzig: Deichert 1933
  • The Gospel according to Johannes (Das New Testament German). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1934 (5th edition 1949)
  • New Testament Theology: History of God's Word in the New Testament . Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1935 (2nd edition 1937)
  • The revelation of God . Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1938
  • The main questions of synoptic criticism. Discussion with R. Bultmann , M. Dibelius and their predecessors . Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1939
  • The making of our New Testament . Gütersloh: Der Rufer 2 1946
  • Jesus. Annunciation and History . Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1946

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Tillich : Correspondence and pamphlets. Evangelisches Verlagswerk, Frankfurt / Main 1983.

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personal data
SURNAME Büchsel, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Pieces
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1945
Place of death Rostock