Hans Emil Weber

Hans Emil Weber (born March 8, 1882 in Mönchengladbach ; † June 13, 1950 in Bonn ) was a Protestant theologian .

Life

Weber was born the son of a pastor and social reformer and attended grammar school in his hometown until 1891. He studied theology at the universities of Neuchâtel , Bonn , Erlangen and Greifswald . After his first exam in Koblenz, he became a licensee in Greifswald in 1905 . After that he was inspector at Tholuckkonvikt in Halle until 1910 . During this time he received his doctorate in theology in Erlangen in 1907. In the same year he completed his habilitation in Halle with a thesis on the analytical method of Lutheran orthodoxy and became a lecturer for the New Testament and the history of theology. In 1909 he received an honorary the band of Halle Wingolf awarded. In 1912 he got an extraordinary and in 1913 a full professorship at the University of Bonn. Here he also taught systematic theology . Now he also received the honorary philistine volume from the Bonn Wingolf . In the First World War Weber served as a military chaplain and hospital pastor until 1915 . From 1919 to 1922 he was a member of the German National People's Party . During the church struggle , despite differing theological positions, he stood by his colleague Karl Barth's side and was therefore forcibly transferred to the University of Münster . In 1937 Weber retired early at his own request and retired to Geilenkirchen . After the Second World War he returned to his old chair in Bonn and was finally retired in 1950.

Fonts (selection)

• The relations of Rom. 1–3 on Paul's missionary practice , Gütersloh 1905.
• The analytical method of Lutheran Orthodoxy , Naumburg 1907.
• The Influence of Protestant School Philosophy on Orthodox-Lutheran Dogmatics , Leipzig 1908.
• Historical-critical research on scriptures and belief in the Bible , Gütersloh ² 1914.
• The spiritual heritage of the present and theology , Leipzig 1925.
• Faith and Mysticism , Gütersloh 1927.
• “Eschatology” and “Mysticism” in the New Testament. An attempt to understand faith , Gütersloh 1928.
• Law and Mission of the Evangelical Union , Essen 1935.
• Martin Kähler as a Lutheran theologian , in: Luthertum 1936, pp. 81 ff. 109 ff.
• Reformation, Orthodoxy and Rationalism , Parts I – II, Gütersloh 1937–1951.
• with Ernst Wolf : encounter. Theological essays on the question of the Una Sancta , Munich 1941.
• Collected Essays. With a foreword by Ernst Bizer , ed. by Ulrich Seeger, Munich 1965.

literature

• Wilhelm Goeters : In memory of Professor D. Dr. Hans Emil Weber, Bonn , in: Deutsches Pfarrerblatt 52 (1952), p. 219f.
• Ernst Bizer: Hans Emil Weber , in: Bonn scholars. Contributions to the history of science in Bonn (150 years of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn, 1818–1968) , Vol. 1: Evangelical Theology , Bonn 1968, pp. 169–189.
• Klaus-Gunther Wesseling :  Weber, Hans Emil. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 400-404.
• Eckhard Lessing : History of German-speaking Protestant Theology from Albrecht Ritschl to the Present , Vol. 2: 1918–1945, Göttingen 2004, pp. 116–119.

Web links

• Entry on (Hans) Emil Weber in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• Memorial sheet for Hans Emil Weber
• Tabular CV