Gabriel Widmer

Gabriel Philippe Widmer (born January 6, 1923 in Lausanne , † January 23, 2013 in Cologny ; resident in Cudrefin and Heimiswil ) was a Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian and university professor .

Life

Family and education

The Reformed baptized, Lausanne-born Gabriel Widmer, son of the druggist Alfred Widmer and his wife Suzanne née Blondel, turned to the study of theology at the University of Lausanne after completing his federal Matura , in 1946 he received a licentiate in theology and in 1950 his doctorate of theology. Gabriel Widmer married Denyse Piaget in 1950. He died in January 2013 in Cologny, just after he had turned 90.

Career history

Gabriel Widmer took over the pastor's position in Saint-Cergue after graduating , which he filled until 1960. Widmer, who was a member of the Lucerna Foundation in Basel and Bern between 1950 and 1953 , took up a position as an editor for the Revue de théologie et de philosophie in Lausanne, which he filled out until 1975. In 1987 he was elected President of the General Committee of this magazine, and in 1996 he resigned. In addition, Gabriel Widmer was a member of the Geneva Consistory from 1976 to 1988, from 1982 to 1984 in the function of Vice-President.

University career

In 1960, Gabriel Widmer accepted an extraordinary professorship for dogmatics and the history of dogma at the University of Geneva , and in 1962 he was appointed full professor . Widmer, who was also the Dean of the theological faculty from 1970 to 1975 , left the university in 1988. In addition, he held a professorship for systematic theology at the theological faculty of the Free Evangelical Church in Lausanne from 1963 to 1966 , and then until 1972 a full professorship for dogmatics at the University of Lausanne. Gabriel Widmer, who was considered the central figure of Reformed theology in French-speaking Switzerland between 1960 and 2000 , is one of the pioneers of the dialogue between science and theology.

Publications

• Les valeurs et leur signification théologique, in: Bibliothèque théologique, Delachaux & Niestlé, Neuchâtel [Switzerland]; Paris, 1950
• together with Aimé Forest, Jean Trouillard: Hommage à Maurice Blondel , Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1961
• Gloire au Père, au Fils, au Saint-Esprit: essai sur le dogme trinitaire, in: Cahiers théologiques, 50., Éditions Delachaux et Niestlé, Neuchâtel, 1963
• L'Évangile et l'athée, Labor et fides, Genève, Librairie protestante, Paris, 1965
• L'homme moderne et la théologie: conférence publique donnée à Strasbourg le 5 février 1965, in: Positions protestantes, Editions Oberlin, Strasbourg, 1965
• The aurore de dieu au créspuscule du XX. siècle, in: Publications de la Faculté de Théologie de l'Université de Genève, Labor et Fides, Genève [u. a.], 1979
• together with Jean-Claude Piguet: Le renversement sémantique: dialogue d'un théorien et d'un philosophe, in: Cahiers de la Revue de théologie et de philosophie, 16., Revue de théologie et de philosophie, Lausanne, 1991

literature

• Who's who in Switzerland including the Principality of Liechtenstein 1978-1979: a biographical dictionary containing about 3500 biographies of prominent people in and of Switzerland (including the Principality of Liechtenstein), Nagel, Geneva, 1978, p. 676.
• Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 2, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-110-07434-6 , p. 4263.
• Olivier Robert, historien., Francesco Panese: Dictionnaire des professeurs de l'Université de Lausanne dès 1890, in: Études et documents pour servir à l'histoire de l'Université de Lausanne, 36, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, p. 1328 .

Web links

• Toni Cetta / CN: Widmer, Gabriel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .