Friedrich Brunstäd

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Hermann Friedrich Theodor Brunstäd , also Friedrich Brunstädt (* July 22, 1883 in Hanover , † November 2, 1944 in Willershagen ) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher .

Life

Memorial stone in the Gelbensande cemetery

Friedrich Brunstäd was born the son of a furniture manufacturer. He studied in Heidelberg from 1901 to 1902 . He then studied philosophy , history , modern languages , political science and evangelical theology in Berlin until 1909 . In the same year Friedrich Brunstäd received his doctorate, became a private lecturer in 1911 and seven years later he became professor of philosophy in Erlangen . In 1925 he was appointed professor of systematic theology in Rostock . In 1930 Friedrich Brunstäd was the 882nd rector of the University of Rostock .

In addition to his office in Rostock, he was the founder and from 1922 to 1934 head of the Evangelical Social School , an institution for adult education in the Evangelical Johannesstift in Berlin-Spandau . Until it was banned in 1934, he was President of the Church and Social Association, which went back to the work of Adolf Stoecker .

Brunstäd was an independent representative of the Luther Renaissance ; his most important contributions to this were the development of a philosophy of religion that linked Luther with Hegel and Kant , as well as a cultural theology that assumed the community of free consciences in God as the basis and goal of culture . Brunstäd was politically committed to the DNVP until 1929 . In the church struggle he supported the Confessing Church and took part in the Confessing Synod in Mecklenburg in 1935 . After his house in Rostock was destroyed by an Allied bombing raid , he retired to Gelbensande , where he died after a long illness at the age of 61.

Brunstäd's successor at the University of Rostock was Martin Doerne .

Known students

Works

  • The state ideas of the political parties , 1920
  • The idea of ​​religion. Principles of the Philosophy of Religion , 1922
  • Independent law of economic life , 1925
  • The Church and its Law , 1935
  • Adolf Stoecker. Will and Fate , 1935
  • Theology of the Lutheran Confessions , 1951

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Assel:  Brunstäd, Friedrich . In: Religion Past and Present (RGG). 4th edition. Volume 1, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1998, Sp. 1806.
  2. ↑ According to Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3525557612 , p. 47.
  3. ↑ Julius Trugenberger: Philosophy of religion as work on theonomy and on a religiously based concept of education. A memory of Friedrich Brunstäd, Paul Tillich's forgotten adversary, in: Paul Tillich and Religious Educational Processes . Ed .: Thomas Scheiwiller / Thomas Weiß. Waxmann, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-8309-3613-8 , pp. 106 .
  4. ^ Wingolfsblätter 2015, 251
  5. ↑ Christian R. Homrichhausen: Social Commitment of Protestant workers in Berlin and Brandenburg from 1848 to 1973 . Frank & Timme, Berlin 2016, p. 128 .
  6. ↑ In Wichern-Verlag / Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Brunstäd, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunstäd, Hermann Friedrich Theodor (full name); Brunstädt, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1944
Place of death Willershagen