Gottfried Fitzer

Gottfried Fitzer (born May 3, 1903 in Groß Bresa ; † April 12, 1997 in Winklern ) was a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar.

Life

He grew up in Breslau , received his doctorate from Ernst Lohmeyer in 1928 at the University of Breslau and completed his habilitation there in 1931 with two papers on the concept of martys . During the Nazi era, he joined the Confessing Church , lost his venia legendi in 1935, was imprisoned and worked as a pastor in a rural community in Silesia . After the conquest of Wroclaw by Russian troops, he and his community fled to Bavaria . After a guest professorship in 1949/50 at the University of Vienna , he taught there from 1950 to 1973 as aProfessor of the New Testament.

Fonts (selection)

• "The woman be silent in the community". About the unpaulin character of the mulier-taceat verses in 1 Corinthians 14 . Munich 1963, OCLC 715714940 .
• What Luther really said . Vienna 1968, OCLC 804696612 .
• as editor: history and patience. Festschrift of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna . Munich 1972, ISBN 3-459-00809-1 .

literature

• as editors Susanne Heine and Erich Heintel : God without qualities? Dedicated to Gottfried Fitzer on the occasion of his 80th birthday . Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-85073-604-0 .
• The principle of community. Theological thinking by Gottfried Fitzer . Vienna 1994, OCLC 603559821 .
• Kurt Niederwimmer : Gottfried Fitzer in memory . in: Wiener Jahrbuch für Theologie 2 (1998), pp. 593–604, ISSN  1607-4289 .
• Karl W. Schwarz : In memoriam Gottfried Fitzer (1903–1997) . in: Yearbook for Silesian Church History 82 (2003), pp. 283–298, ISSN  0075-2762 .