Hans Schneider (theologian)

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Hans Schneider (born July 20, 1941 in Marburg ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian . He is a professor emeritus for church history .

Live and act

Schneider was a professor at the Augustana University in Neuendettelsau from 1982 to 1988 , and from 1988 at the Philipps University in Marburg . In addition to the history of the Reformation, his research focuses on Pietism, in particular on Zinzendorf and the Moravian Brethren . Schneider is a member of the Historical Commission for Research into Pietism, founded in 1964, and co-editor of the yearbooks on the history of Pietism . He has been a member since 1992, a member of the main committee since 1994 and deputy chairman of the Historical Commission for Hessen since 2012 .

research

As a historian, he says that "detective tasks" always appealed to him, "as Schneider admits in the foreword to an anthology published in 2006 with studies of the life, work and impact of Johann Arndt . In addition to his two decades of preoccupation with the biography and work of Arndt, which produced numerous biographical details as well as improved hypotheses about the place of birth, academic career and denominational identity of this Protestant theologian, Schneider's most sensational discovery is also on this "detective" line, namely his 2009 Introduced elucidation of the historical background of the young Martin Luther's trip to Rome , with which Schneider, after years of meticulous research, quietly succeeded in a real surprise coup in historical Luther research.

New dating of Luther's trip to Rome

After more than ten years of research and evaluation of previously unknown, new sources, Schneider presented the important contribution to historical Luther research in 2009. He succeeded in shedding light on the historical background of Martin Luther's 1511/12 trip to Rome (which was previously accepted a year earlier) in the context of the internal disputes in the Augustinian order and reconstructing a new chronology of the trip. Schneider's hypothesis, which has revolutionized the previous state of research on this phase of Martin Luther's life, which was poorly understood by sources, not only affects the exact dating of the trip, which has to be corrected, but is also for the classification of Luther's position in the directional struggles within of his order and for the evaluation of his relationship with his teacher and patron Johann von Staupitz . “Luder would then not have set out there as a representative of convents that were in dispute with the Order General Staupitz, as was previously thought, but as his partisan. In any case, it fits that the path soon led him to Staupitz's side after his return. ” Ulrich Köpf described the re-dating of the trip to Rome as“ the most important contribution to the biographical research of Luther in recent years ”.

Fonts (selection)

  • Conciliarism as a problem of modern Catholic theology. The history of the interpretation of the Constance decrees from Febronius to the present day. Berlin, New York 1976. (Works on Church History, Volume 47).
  • Dietrich Meyer (Hrsg.): Bibliographisches Handbuch zur Zinzendorf research. With the collaboration of ... Hans Schneider. Düsseldorf 1987.
  • The Waldeck reformer Johannes Hefentreger (Trygophorus) 1497–1542. Arolsen 1991. (Waldeckische historical booklets; Volume 2).
  • Radical Pietism in the 17th Century . In: Geschichte des Pietismus vol. 1. 1993. pp. 391–437.
  • Radical Pietism in the 18th Century in: History of Pietism Vol. 2. 1995. P. 107–197.
  • The strange Arndt. Studies on the life, work and impact of Johann Arndt (1555–1621). Göttingen 2006.
  • Collected essays I. Radical Pietism . Edited by Wolfgang Breul and Lothar Vogel. Works on the history of the church and theology 36. Leipzig 2011.
  • Zwingli's beginnings as a priest , in: Ulrich Gäbler and Martin Sallmann : Swiss Church History, Newly Reflected: Festschrift for Rudolf Dellsperger on his 65th birthday, Volume 73 of Basler and Berner Studies on Historical and Systematic Theology , ISSN 0171-6840, Peter Lang, Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-03430-430-6 , pp. 37-62

literature

  • Wolfgang Breul-Kunkel, Lothar Vogel (Hrsg.): Reception and reform. Festschrift for Hans Schneider on his 60th birthday. Hessian Church History Association, Darmstadt, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-931849-07-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. Johannes Wallmann : False start: On the conception of volume 1 of the new "History of Pietism". In: ders .: Pietism and Orthodoxy. Collected Essays. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, p. 369.
  2. Publishing release Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , accessed on 14 April 2016th
  3. ↑ List of members on the website of the Historical Commission for Hesse, accessed in June 2018.
  4. Board list on the website of the Historical Commission for Hesse, retrieved in June 2018.
  5. ^ Hans Schneider: The strange Arndt. Studies on the life, work and impact of Johann Arndt (1555–1621). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 7.
  6. ^ Hans Schneider: Martin Luther's Journey to Rome - newly dated and reinterpreted. In: Werner Lehfeldt (Hrsg.): Studies on the history of science and religion (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. New series, volume 10). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025175-3 , pp. 1–157.
  7. Volker Leppin : Martin Luther: from monk to enemy of the Pope. WBG , Darmstadt 2013, p. 24.
  8. ^ Ulrich Köpf: Martin Luther. The reformer and his work. Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, p. 247 (cf. his presentation based on Schneider “Die Romreise 1511/12”, ibid. Pp. 30–34).

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