Gottfried Marron

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Gottfried Maron (born March 5, 1928 in Osterwieck ; † January 27, 2010 in Nuremberg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian ( church historian ) and university professor.

Maron studied 1948-1955 Protestant Theology at the University of Göttingen and in 1956 due to one of Ernst Wolf supervised work on Kaspar Schwenckfeld to Dr. theol. PhD. He then worked as a consultant in the denominational institute of the Evangelical Federation in Bensheim. One of his tasks was the evangelical reporting on the Second Vatican Council . In 1964 he became assistant to Walther von Loewenich at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and qualified as a professor in 1968 in the field of church history. 1973 Maron was appointed to the chair for modern church history at the church college in Berlin . In 1976 he moved to the theological faculty of Kiel University , where he taught until his retirement in 1993.

From 1979 to 1997 Maron was President of the Evangelical Union . He was particularly committed to ensuring that the federal government adopted a new model for its 100th anniversary in 1986 with the motto “Evangelical and Ecumenical”. He was also a member of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences and a board member of the Luther Society .

His students include Harry Oelke, professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , Jörg Haustein , former professor at the University of Bonn , and Walter Fleischmann-Bisten .

Fonts (selection)

  • Individualism and community with Caspar von Schwenckfeld . Evangelisches Verlagswerk, 1961 (also dissertation).
  • Church and Justification. A controversial theological investigation based on the texts of the Second Vatican Council . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1969 (Habil.).
  • The Roman Catholic Church from 1870 to 1970 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1972 (The Church in its History, Vol. 4, Lfg. N 2).
  • The Catholic Lutheran Image of the Present. Comments and inquiries . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1982. ISBN 3-525-87143-0
  • Talk to Rome. Contributions from an evangelical perspective . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1988. ISBN 3-525-87158-9 .
  • Martin Luther and Epicurus . A contribution to the understanding of the old Luther (reports from the meetings of the Joachim Jungius Society eV, 6 [1988], no.1). Hamburg 1988.
  • All of Christianity on earth. Martin Luther and its ecumenical significance . For the 65th birthday of the author, ed. by Gerhard Müller and Gottfried Seebaß . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993.
  • Ignatius of Loyola. Mysticism - Theology - Church . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001. ISBN 3-525-55442-7 .
As editor
  • Humanitas-Christianitas. Walther von Loewenich on his 65th birthday . Luther-Verlag, Witten, 1968 (with Karlmann Beyschlag and Eberhard Wölfel).
  • Evangelical and ecumenical. Contributions to the 100th anniversary of the Evangelical Union . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1986. ISBN 3-525-56528-3 .

literature

  • Jörg Haustein, Harry Oelke (Ed.): Reformation and Catholicism. Contributions to the history, life and relationship of denominations. Festschrift for Gottfried Maron on his 75th birthday . Hanover 2003
  • Harry Oelke: Obituary Professor Dr. Gottfried Marron . In: Kirchliches Jahrbuch for the Evangelical Church in Germany 137, 2010, pp. 221–229

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personal data
SURNAME Marron, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterwieck am Harz
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2010
Place of death Nuremberg