Gustav Krüger (theologian)

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Hermann Gustav Eduard Krüger (born June 29, 1862 in Bremen , † March 13, 1940 in Gießen ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Life

Gustav Krüger was the son of the merchant Georg Wilhelm Krüger (1810–1889) and Henriette Thaddea, née Voss (1830–1899), a granddaughter of the translator Johann Heinrich Voss . Krüger, who was of Protestant denomination, married Helene Pauline, born in Jena, in 1889, the daughter of the extraordinary professor of classical philology Moritz Vermehren (1829-1893) and his wife Adele, born of Hase (1833-1916), a daughter of the Jena theology professor Karl von Hase (1800–1890). He studied Protestant theology at the universities of Heidelberg , Jena , Gießen and Göttingen . In 1922 he became an honorary philistine at the Giessen Wingolf . Theologians Albrecht Ritschl (Göttingen), Karl von Hase (Jena) (the father of his mother-in-law) and Adolf von Harnack (Giessen) shaped him the most .

In 1884 Krüger was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1886 he obtained his theological license from the University of Giessen and qualified as a professor in church history. In 1889 he was appointed associate professor. In 1891 he received a full professorship and indirectly followed his academic teacher Adolf von Harnack to the chair.

Gustav Krüger worked at the University of Giessen until the end of his life. He represented a rather liberal theology . In 1906 he was appointed a secret council of churches. In the academic years 1902/1903 and 1924/1925 he was the rectorate of the University of Giessen. Kruger was dean of the theological faculty eight times. In 1927 he retired . From 1907 to 1933 he was Ephorus' scholarship holder. He resigned from this position in protest against the discriminatory influence exerted by the National Socialists. During the time of National Socialism Krüger was active in the Confessing Church .

On October 10, 1917, he was appointed representative of the State University of Giessen in the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse . He took his deputy oath on October 25, 1917. The November Revolution of 1918 marked the end of the history of the estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and its mandate.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Monophysite disputes in connection with imperial politics . Jena 1884 (dissertation)
  • Lucifer, Bishop of Calaris, and the Luciferian Schism . Leipzig 1886. Reprint Hildesheim / Wiesbaden 1969
  • The religion in Rome under the Severians . Leipzig 1888 (translation by Jean Reville: La religion à Rome sous les Sévères . Paris 1886)
  • History of early Christian literature in the first three centuries . Freiburg 1895. Second edition, Freiburg 1898 (= Outline of Theological Sciences 2,3)
  • The dogma of the New Testament . Giessen 1896
  • The recent efforts to reunify the Christian churches . Leipzig 1897
  • The papacy: its idea and its bearers . Tübingen 1907. Second edition, Tübingen 1932
  • The religion of the Goethe era . Tübingen 1931

Editing

  • Karl von Hase: Church history on the basis of academic lectures. Third part, second section . Leipzig 1891
  • with Gerhard Ficker , Heinrich Hermelink , Erwin Preuschen , Horst Stephan : Handbook of Church History for Students . Four volumes, Tübingen 1909–1913. Second edition, Tübingen 1923–1931
  • with Carl Hosius : History of Roman Literature up to the Legislative Work of Emperor Justinian
    • The literature of the fifth and sixth centuries . Munich 1920 ( Handbook of Classical Studies 8,4,2)
    • The time from Hadrian 117 to Constantine 324 . Third, revised edition, Munich 1922 ( Handbook of Classical Studies 8.3)

literature

  • Eckhard PlümacherKrüger, Gustav. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 699-703.
  • Erich BeyreutherKrüger, Gustav. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 104 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Martin Greschat : Gustav Krüger (1862–1940) - church historian in Giessen . In: Cornelius Mayer , Karlheinz Müller , Gerhard Schmalenberg (Ed.): Asking about the beginnings. Festschrift Gerhard Dautzenberg . Giessen 1994, pp. 635-653.
  • Karl Dienst : Between Science and Church Politics . Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 43; P. 53.
  • Alf Özen, Michael Weisse (ed.): Gießener Theologische Studien. D. Dr. Gustav Krüger on his 60th birthday (June 29, 1922) presented by the lecturers of the theological faculty in Giessen . Frankfurt am Main u. a. 2009.
  • Martin Ohst: From the canon debates in Protestant theology of the 19th century . In: Eve-Marie-Becker, Stefan Scholz (ed.): Canon in construction and deconstruction: processes of canonization of religious texts from antiquity to the present . Berlin / Boston 2012, pp. 39–70.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , p. 542.
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 228.
  • Bruno W. Reimann: The politicization of the Ludwig University under the sign of National Socialism. In: Front Section University. The Giessen University under National Socialism. Gießen: Anabas-Verlag and Focus-Verlag 1983, 2nd edition, pp. 137–140

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Krüger  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.kreuzwacht.de/pdf/anbraeunen.pdf
  2. Literarisches Zentralblatt für Deutschland (1906), p. 114