Friedrich de Boor

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friedrich de Boor (born September 13, 1933 in Stolp ; † June 13, 2020 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German church historian .

life and career

Friedrich de Boor had to flee Pomerania in the course of the advance of the Red Army at the end of the Second World War . In 1952 he passed his Abitur at the Goethe High School in Schwerin and began studying Protestant theology at the University of Rostock , which he completed in 1957 as a graduate theologian. Then de Boor became a research assistant at the Church History Institute of the Rostock Theological Faculty. In 1959 he moved to the theological faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) in the same position . The doctorate took place with Erhard Peschke and Konrad Onasch in September 1964 with a thesis on The new definition of the simony with John Wyclif . A contribution to the investigation of the connection and the development of the theological and ecclesiastical basic ideas of Wyclif . In July 1969 the habilitation followed with the thesis The parenetic and methodological lectures August Hermann Franckes (1693-1727) . Reviewers were again Peschke and Hans Urner . In 1970 de Boor became a university lecturer for church history, in September 1978 full professor for church history at the MLU. From 1972 to 1991 he was Ephorus of the Tholuck Konviktes .

Fonts

  • Wyclif's concept of simony. The theological and ecclesiastical foundations of church criticism John Wyclifs , Niemeyer, Halle 1970 (work on church history and religious studies, vol. 3)
  • Self-realization as a theological and anthropological problem , scientific journalism of the Martin Luther University, Halle 1988 (Scientific articles of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 1988,7. A, [social science articles], 104) ISBN 3-86010-050- 5
  • Editor with Michael Lehmann: Study and community under the Gospel. Contributions to the history and perspectives of the Evangelical Konviktes in the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) , Francke Foundations, Halle 1999 ISBN 3-931479-14-5

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 148.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Cyranka: Obituary of the Theological Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Theological Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, June 18, 2020, accessed on June 16, 2020 (German).