Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt

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Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt (born December 2, 1928 in Eberswalde ; † May 25, 2002 in Berlin ) was a Protestant pastor, student pastor and professor of systematic theology at the Free University of Berlin .

Life

Marquardt's grave in the St. Annen-Kirchhof in Berlin-Dahlem

After his military service in Poland and Northern Germany , Marquardt began studying Protestant theology, first in Marburg , then in Berlin (1947–1951). After the first theological exam, further studies took place with Karl Barth in Basel ; then a vicariate in Lindau on Lake Constance . He did not complete a doctoral degree with Helmut Gollwitzer in Bonn , instead he took on pastoral positions in Euskirchen and Langenfeld-Immigrath and was then student pastor in Berlin from May 1957 . Since 1961 he worked in the Christian Peace Conference (CFK) . In 1963 he became an assistant at Gollwitzer in Berlin. At this time he took up another doctoral degree, now with the topic: Israel with Karl Barth. He received his doctorate in 1967 with the dissertation The Discovery of Judaism for Christian Theology: Israel in the Thinking of Karl Barth , for which he received the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal of the Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in 1968 .

Marquardt's habilitation , originally at the Church University of Berlin , turned into a political and scientific scandal: his habilitation thesis on Karl Barth as a socialist was rejected by a narrow majority, whereupon Gollwitzer resigned from his teaching position at the Church University in protest. Marquardt then completed his habilitation at the Free University of Berlin , where he became professor of systematic theology at the Institute for Protestant Theology , where he was Gollwitzer's successor. His habilitation thesis was published in 1972 under the title Theology and Socialism: The Example of Karl Barth .

In 1959, Marquardt made his first trip to Israel with students. Since the 1970s, Marquardt has become increasingly known as a pointed voice in the Judeo-Christian dialogue. His short and provocative study The Jews in Romans , published in 1974, became a milestone in the discussion. In 1990 he demonstrated at a lecture at the Catholic Paulus Academy in Zurich that the Gospel of John was intended in Hebrew, which must have theological and ecclesiastical consequences. Marquardt was a pioneer in Judeo-Christian dialogue and showed Hebrew thinking in the New Testament.

Publications

Dogmatics:

  • On the misery and visitation of theology. Prolegomena to dogmatics. Kaiser, Munich 1988; 2nd edition 1992, 477 pages, ISBN 3-459-01740-6 .
  • The Christian profession of Jesus the Jew. A Christology. Kaiser, Gütersloh publishing house Mohn, Gütersloh.
  • What can we hope when we can hope? An eschatology. Kaiser, Gütersloh publishing house Mohn, Gütersloh.
  • Eia, if we were there - a theological utopia. Kaiser, Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 1997, 605 pages, ISBN 3-579-01947-3 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ F.-W. Marquardt: What is truth? : Permanent enlightenment through theology as science , in: FU: N (FU-Nachrichten), 12/1995, page 12ff., Text
  2. ^ Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt: Johannes - thought from Hebrew , website fwmarquardt.eu/Johannes
  3. ↑ Brief portrait of Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt on the website fwmarquardt.eu
personal data
SURNAME Marquardt, Friedrich-Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedel (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor and professor for systematic theology in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberswalde
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 2002
Place of death Berlin