Gustav Stahlin

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Gustav Stählin's grave in the main cemetery in Mainz

Gustav Stählin (born February 28, 1900 in Nuremberg , † November 25, 1985 in Göttingen ) was a German Lutheran theologian and university professor.

Life

Gustav Stählin, the eldest son of classical philologist and later professor Otto Stählin , studied Protestant theology and classical philology at the universities of Erlangen , Halle , Berlin and Tübingen from 1919 after his deployment in World War I and with the Epp Freikorps . After taking the first theological exam in 1924 and training at the Predigerseminar in Munich, he became study inspector at the Silesian Convict for theology students in Halle in 1927 and in the same year in Erlangen as Dr. phil. PhD. In 1928 the doctorate to Lic. Theol. on. 1930 at the University of Leipzig for New Testament habilitation, he went late 1931 on behalf of Leipzig and Missions to India . Via Pattukkottai and Kodaikanal he came to Madras (today Chennai ), where he has taught at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological College (Gurukul Lutheran Theological College) since October 1932. In 1936/37 he was also a lecturer for German at the University of Madras . In 1939 he returned to Leipzig.

After a substitute professor at the University of Vienna from 1943 to 1945, Stählin was appointed full professor for the New Testament at the University of Erlangen in 1946. In the winter semester of 1952/53 he moved to the University of Mainz , where he taught until his retirement in 1968. He served as dean several times and also represented his faculty in the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau .

Work and meaning

Stählin became known to the wider public primarily through his commentary on the book of Acts . In addition, he wrote numerous conceptual historical contributions to the theological dictionary on the New Testament published by Gerhard Kittel .

Otto Böcher and Klaus Haacker are among his students .

Honors

In 1948 Stählin was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Erlangen . In 1980 he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .

family

Stählin came from a well-known family of theologians and scholars. His great-uncle was the Bavarian Consistorial President Adolf von Stählin , his great-aunt the Neuendettelsauer Oberin Therese Stählin , his uncle the theology professor and Bishop Wilhelm Stählin . On the maternal side he was a great-grandson of Heinrich Ranke . Gustav Stählin's brother Adolf also became a professor (for agricultural sciences).

Since 1930 he was married to Irmgard Fischer († 1952).

Fonts (selection)

  • Scandal. Research into the history of a biblical term. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1930 (Habil. Leipzig 1930).
  • Encounter with angels. Christ and the Angels. Barth, Munich-Planegg 1956.
  • The Acts of the Apostles (= The New Testament German Volume 5), 10th edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen 1962 (17th edition 1980)

literature

Web links

  • Short biogram
  • Entry on Stählin (with photo) in the directory of professors at the University of Mainz 1946–1973

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Heinrich Gürsching: Ahnenprobe Stählin. In: Quatember 1953, pp. 222-224 ; Otto Stählin u. a .: The Stählin family from Memmingen (German Family Archives. Vol. 11). 1959.
personal data
SURNAME Stahlin, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1985
Place of death Goettingen