Fritz Lieb

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Fritz Lieb (born June 10, 1892 in Rothenfluh ; † November 6, 1970 in Basel ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian and Slavist who was considered an expert on Russian intellectual history.

Life

From 1912 onwards, Lieb studied Oriental languages and Protestant theology in Basel, Berlin and Zurich . Influenced by the religious socialists Leonhard Ragaz and Hermann Kutter , he learned the Russian language during his studies and, as a member of the Swiss Social Democratic Party, advocated joining the Communist International . In May / June 1921, as vicar in Safenwil , he enabled Karl Barth to complete his interpretation of the Roman letters. On the doctorate to Dr. theol. In 1923, the next year he immediately completed his habilitation at the University of Basel . As a private lecturer , he traveled all over Europe with his Russia lectures and began systematically to collect books on Russian church and intellectual history. In 1929 he was at the request Barths to the University of Bonn umhabilitiert and 1931 appointed as Associate Professor, had Germany after the seizure of the Nazis but 1933 leave and emigrated to Paris .

During his three years in Paris, Lieb founded the anti-fascist Free German Academy and kept in close contact with others. a. with Walter Benjamin and Heinrich Mann as well as with the Russian philosopher Nikolai Berdjajew , an employee of his magazine Orient und Occident, which was founded in 1929 .

In 1937 this was followed by an appointment as associate professor for dogmatics and the history of theology with special emphasis on the Eastern churches at Basel University. In 1946 Lieb received the appointment to a professorship for "Eastern European Church Studies" at the Humboldt University in Berlin , which he only held until 1949 (alongside the Basel associate professor). In 1958 he was promoted to a full professorship in Basel.

At the end of 1951 he donated his Russian Slavic library to the Basel University Library. The Lieb library comprises around 13,000 monographs, periodicals and manuscripts from the 17th century to the 1980s.

Fonts (selection)

  • Franz Baader's Youth History: The Early Development of a Romantic . Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1926 (Habil.)
  • Faith and Revelation with Johann Georg Hamann . Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1926
  • Western European intellectual life in the judgments of Russian religious philosophy JCB Mohr Verlag, Tübingen 1929
  • The spiritual face of Bolshevism . Ed. On behalf of d. Research Department d. Ecumenical. Rates, Gotthelf-Verlag, Bern 1935
  • Christ and Antichrist in the Third Reich: The Struggle of the German Confessional Church . Éditions du Carrefour, Paris 1936
  • Russia on the move: The Russian man between Christianity and communism . Bern 1945
  • The self-understanding of the Russian man in the works of Dostoyevsky and Soloviev . Chronos Verlag, Berlin 1947
  • Christianity and Marxism . Berlin 1949.
  • Valentin Weigel's commentary on the creation story and the literature of his student Benedikt Biedermann. A literary-critical examination of the mystical theology of the 16th century . EVZ, Zurich 1962
  • Sophia and History: Essays on Eastern and Western intellectual and theological history . Edited by Martin Rohkrämer. EVZ, Zurich 1962

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Busch : Karl Barth's curriculum vitae : Göttingen 1979, p. 112 f.
  2. ↑ Fritz Lieb Papers. Internationaal Instituut voor sociale Geschiedenis
  3. ↑ a b The magazine "Orient und Occident". Klaus Bambauer, accessed on February 11, 2012
  4. ↑ Heinz Ohme : The relations between the Orthodox Spiritual Science Sankt-Tichon-Universität / Moscow and the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the context of Russian life in Berlin today . ( Memento from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ; PDF)
  5. ^ The Lieb library , University of Basel
personal data
SURNAME Dear, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Reformed theologian and Slavist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rothenfluh
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1970
Place of death Basel