Gerhard Krause (theologian)

Gerhard Krause (born June 2, 1912 in Ueckermünde ; † August 25, 1982 in Rehburg-Loccum ) was a German Protestant theologian who worked as a professor at the University of Bonn from 1962 to 1977 .

Life

Krause, a son of the pastor and later superintendent Bruno Krause, studied from 1930 at the Church University of Bethel and the Universities of Tübingen , Marburg and Greifswald , where he was mainly influenced by Rudolf Hermann . As a member of the Confessing Church he received his practical training at the seminary in Finkenwalde led by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and was ordained in 1938 . As a soldier in World War II, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he did not return until 1955. He became a pastor in Bünde and was able to complete his doctoral project on Luther's interpretation of the Bible, which he had started in 1937 and now supervised by Gerhard Ebeling , at the University of Zurich in 1960 .

In 1962 Krause was appointed associate professor for practical theology at the University of Bonn, where he was promoted to full professor in 1965 . In the same year he founded the Institute for Hermeneutics there. In 1977 he retired .

Krause died suddenly in 1982 during a meeting of the commission for the revision of the Luther Bible in Loccum monastery .

Work and meaning

Krause's main research areas were the history of the Reformation and homiletics . In addition to work on the Luther Bible, which followed on from his dissertation, he mainly devoted himself to the Reformed theologian Andreas Hyperius . In practical theology, in addition to contributions to the understanding of the subject, his monograph on the Christmas sermon should be mentioned. Krause received lasting importance as the editor of the Theological Real Encyclopedia . He was able to accompany the first ten of the 36 volumes that have appeared since 1977.

Krause was also active on a voluntary basis in the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , for example as a presbyter in his community and as the founder of the Bonn telephone pastoral care .

Honor

At his home in Bonn Ippendorf is Gerhard Frills road named after him.

Fonts (selection)

• Studies on Luther's interpretation of the Little Prophets (= contributions to historical theology. Vol. 33). Mohr, Tübingen 1962.
• Christmas sermons and homiletic considerations for the Christmas sermon today . Mohr, Tübingen 1973. ISBN 3-16-135481-8 .
• Andreas Gerhard Hyperius. Life, pictures, writings (= contributions to historical theology. Vol. 56). Mohr, Tübingen 1977. ISBN 3-16-140122-0 .
• Theological questions of the 1975 revision of the Luther Bible . In: The New Testament Today. On the question of the revisability of Luther's translation (= supplements to ZThK 5). Mohr, Tübingen 1981, pp. 75-173.

As editor

• Practical theology. Texts on the development and self-understanding of the practical discipline of Protestant theology . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1972. ISBN 3-534-04913-6 .
• Andreas Gerhard Hyperius: Briefe: 1530–1563 (= contributions to historical theology. Vol. 64). Mohr, Tübingen 1981.

literature

• Henning Schröer , Gerhard Müller (ed.): From the office of the laity in church and theology. Festschrift for Gerhard Krause on his 70th birthday . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1982. ISBN 3-11-008590-9 .
• Henning Schröer: In memoriam Gerhard Krause. Speech given on June 1, 1983 at the commemoration of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Bouvier, Bonn 1984.
• Henning Schröer:  Krause, Gerhard (1912–1982) . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE). Volume 19, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, ISBN 3-11-012355-X , pp. 709-711.
• Henning Theurich: Co-founder of the Bonn telephone counseling. Memories of Gerhard Krause . In: Protestant. Evangelical insights . Edition 28, 2006 , p. 6.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Krause in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard-Krause-Weg in the Bonn street cadastre