Friedrich Steudel

Friedrich Steudel (born September 27, 1866 in Tuttlingen , † November 9, 1939 in Bremen ) was a German theologian .

biography

Steudel was the son of a pastor from Tuttlingen. He attended grammar school and studied theology at the University of Halle , the University of Zurich and the University of Berlin. After graduating, he was a pastor in Weinsberg in 1892 . He was dismissed because of his liberal theological opinion.

In 1897 the Remberti congregation in Bremen appointed him pastor. Here he criticized the traditionally transmitted religious conception and advocated a scientific and philosophical interpretation of the Bible. He turned down authorities. He was closely connected to the representatives of reform theology, the church radicalism in Bremen , such as cathedral preacher Oscar Mauritz and the St. Martini preachers Albert Kalthoff and Emil Felden . Like him, these theologians were members of the Deutscher Monistenbund , founded in 1906 and initiated by Ernst Haeckel , an association that advocated a worldview based on the principle of the unity of nature and spirit. When Kalthoff became chairman of this union in 1906, the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen stepped in and forced the Bremen pastors Steudel and Mauritz (Kalthoff had since died) to resign from the union in 1907.

He wrote the Bremer Wanderbuch , which was published in 1904, 1905 and 1934. At the beginning of the National Socialist era , he retired in October 1933.

Fonts (selection)

• History of the Christian religion in outline. For the hand of the student. Winter, Bremen 1901.
• Bremer Wanderbuch. A guide for pedestrians and cyclists; Description of all worthwhile excursions in Bremen's near and far surroundings. Winter, Bremen 1904 (preview of the 2nd edition 1905).
• The Christ problem and the future of Protestantism. Schrötel, Zurich / Leipzig 1909.
• In the fight for the myth of Christ. A discussion in particular with J. Weiß, PW Schmiedel, A. Harnack, Chwolson. Diederichs, Jena 1910.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .