Gottfrid Billing

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Gottfrid Billing

Axel Gottfrid Leonard Billing (born April 29, 1841 in Önnestad , Kristianstad parish , † January 14, 1925 in Lund ) was a Swedish theologian , university professor, Lutheran bishop and member of the Reichstag.

After studying at Lund University , Billing was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate and received a lectureship in practical theology in 1867 . In 1872 he was ordained and worked for a few years as a pastor until he became administrator of a professorship in 1878 and professor of practical theology in Lund in 1881. In 1884 he became Bishop of Västerås and in 1898 Bishop of Lund . In 1900 he turned down a candidacy for the office of Archbishop of the Church of Sweden . Billing remained a representative of the conservative high church Lutheranism and fought against the free church revival movements.

King Oskar II , with whom Billing was personally very connected, appointed him his (part-time) court preacher in 1885 and appointed him commander with Grand Cross of the North Star Order in 1897 . His son, King Gustav V , also valued him and awarded him the Royal Order of Seraphine in 1921 .

Gottfrid Billing was also politically active. 1889–1906 and 1908–1912 he was a member of the first chamber of the Swedish parliament . Between 1909 and 1912 he was also its second president. As a politician, he took a clearly conservative position and, for example, opposed the introduction of universal suffrage.

From 1900 until his death, Gottfrid Billing was a member of the Svenska Academies , and from 1908 he was also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .

Gottfried Billing's son Einar was also an important theologian in Sweden.

Fonts (selection)

  • Cateketics begrepp. Ett försök i practice theologi . Lund 1867.
  • Om sacramentum och sacrificium i den lutherska culten. Ett försök i practice theologi . Lund 1868.
  • P. Waldenström uppsats: Om försoningens betydelse. Anmärkningar . Lund 1874.
  • Lutherska kyrkans kännelse . Lund 1876-78.
  • Om luthersk kyrkotukt . Lund 1880.
  • En årgång högmesso-predikningar . Del 1-2. Lund 1887
  • Kort katekesförklaring . Half 1–2. Lund 1897-98.
  • Betraktelser for hvar dag i kyrkoåret . I-2. Lund 1906-07.
  • The gospel is Guds power. Kyrkliga valley . Stockholm 1922.
  • Hilding Pleijel (Ed.): Levnadsminnen till och med Västerås-tiden. Stockholm 1955.
  • Hilding Pleijel (Ed.): Levnadsminnen. Biskopstiden i Lund. Lund 1975.
  • Anders Jarlert (Ed.): "Bäste biskop!" Correspondents mellan drottning Victoria och biskop Gottfrid Billing 1900–1924. Lund 2010.

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predecessor Office successor
Wilhelm Flensburg Bishop of Lund
1898 - 1925 		Edvard Magnus Rodhe
personal data
SURNAME Billing, Gottfrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Billing, Axel Gottfrid Leonard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Lutheran bishop, theologian and member of the Reichstag
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Önnestad , Kristianstad municipality
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1925
Place of death Lund