Georg Stuhlfauth

Georg Stuhlfauth (born March 6, 1870 in Mußbach , now Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , † February 2, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German Christian archaeologist and church historian .

Life

After studying Protestant theology and archeology and receiving his doctorate in Strasbourg in 1896 , he received the travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute in 1896/97 and undertook study trips to Italy, Sicily, Malta and North Africa. In the service of the Palatinate Church , he worked as a religion teacher from 1897 and as a pastor in Wörth am Rhein from 1908 . After the death of Nikolaus Müller in 1912 he was appointed professor of Christian archeology and church art at the theological faculty of the University of Berlin . Until his retirement in 1934, he was also responsible for the Christian-Archaeological Collection there. He also advocated the creation of a church-historical image archive. He was particularly interested in early Christian iconography , Reformation art, but also aspects of contemporary art.

He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

• The angels in early Christian art , Freiburg, Leipzig, Tübingen 1897 (= dissertation)
• Honor God '. Protestant sermons , Heidelberg 1904.
• The Heilandskind selected from woodcuts and copper engravings by Albrecht Dürer and with accompanying text , Potsdam 1918.
• The oldest portraits of Christ and the Apostles , Berlin 1918.
• The Christian church building in the West. An overview , Berlin 1924.
• The apocryphal stories of Peter in early Christian art , Berlin, Leipzig 1925.
• Religious art in the works of Lovis Corinth , Lahr 1926.
• The portraits of D. Martin Luther in death , Weimar 1927.
• The Baptistery of S.Giovanni in Fonte zu Naples and its mosaics , Leipzig 1929.
• The triangle. The story of a religious symbol , Stuttgart 1937.
• The portraits of Hans Sachs from the 16th to the end of the 19th century. , Berlin 1939.
• The unicorn altar from Dambeck Abbey . - In: Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft. Volume XIII , ed. by Richard Hamann and Frieda Dettweiler, Marburg 1944, pp. 171–186.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Georg Stuhlfauth. In: Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (Hrsg.): Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon . (BBKL). Volume 11: Stoss, Veit to Tieffenthaler, Joseph. Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 121-133.
• Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German biographical encyclopedia. Volume 9: Schlumberger - Thiersch. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25039-2 , p. 811.

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Stuhlfauth  - Sources and full texts