Hans von Soden

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Hans Freiherr von Soden (full name: Hans Otto Arthur Maria Roderich Ulrich Freiherr von Soden; born November 4, 1881 in Striesen near Dresden , † October 2, 1945 in Marburg ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Hans von Soden was a scion of the noble family Soden and the son of the Protestant theologian and later professor Hermann von Soden and his wife Gabriele von Schaedtler (1852-1925). He grew up in Berlin, where he studied Protestant theology from 1900 . Besides his father, Adolf von Harnack was his most important teacher. On the doctorate to Lic. Theol. 1906 to 1910 an assistant at the Prussian Historical Institute in Rome . From 1910 to 1918 he worked as a private lecturer in church history at the University of Berlin , during the First World War he was a chaplain and division pastor . The appointment as associate followed in 1918. Professor and in 1921 as full professor for church history at the University of Breslau and in 1924 the appointment to the Philipps University of Marburg , here on the chair for church history and the New Testament . In 1927/1928 he was elected rector of the Philipps University.

Von Soden, who was a member of the German People's Party (DVP) and the Evangelical Social Congress , was in opposition to National Socialism from the start . In 1933, as dean of the Marburg theological faculty, he was in charge of the preparation of a negative opinion from the theological faculty on the so-called " Aryan paragraph " in the Protestant regional churches. The declaration of the New Testament and the Race Question also goes back to him and his faculty colleague Rudolf Bultmann . He was a member of the Pastors' Emergency League and leading head of the Confessing Church in the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (chairman of the State Brotherhood Council ), as its synodal he took part in the Barmer Confession Synod in 1934 . Because of his work critical of the regime, he was temporarily put into retirement in 1934. During the Second World War he was a pastor for the Protestant student community in Marburg.

family

In 1907 Hans von Soden married Magdalena von Möller (1883-1919), a daughter of the Prussian Minister of Commerce, Theodor von Möller, in Berlin . From this marriage three sons were born, among them the ancient orientalist Wolfram von Soden . After the early death of his first wife, Hans von Soden married her older sister Hedwig von Möller (1877–1963) in Brackwede in 1920 .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Cyprus Letter Collection. History of their creation and transmission (= TU NF 10.3 [25.3]). Leipzig 1904.
  • The dispute between Rome and Carthage over the baptism of heretics . In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 12 (1909), pp. 1–42.
  • The Latin New Testament in North Africa in the time of Cyprian. According to biblical manuscripts and father's certificates (= TU 3,3 [33]). Leipzig 1909.
  • Documents on the history of the development of Donatism (= small texts for theological and philological lectures and exercises 122). Bonn 1913; Berlin 1950.
  • Bismarck's belief . Berlin / Stuttgart 1915.
  • The emergence of the Christian church . Two volumes (= From Nature and Spiritual World 690/691). Leipzig / Berlin 1919.
  • The end of the Protestant people's church in Prussia? Berlin 1922.
  • What is truth On the historical concept of truth. Speech at the beginning of the rectorate of the University of Marburg (= Marburg Academic Speeches 46). Marburg 1927.
  • The Latin text of Paul in Marcion and Tertullian . In: Rudolf Bultmann, Hans von Soden (ed.): Festgabe für Adolf Jülicher . Tübingen 1927, pp. 229-277.
  • Reich, State and Church in the new German law . In: Theologische Rundschau NF 2 (1930), pp. 1-25.
  • The German Evangelical Church Federation . In: Theologische Rundschau NF 3 (1931), pp. 297-318.
  • The emergence of Christianity . In: Propylaea World History II. Hellas and Rome. Berlin 1931, 475-544.
  • Christianity and culture in the historical development of their relationship (= collection of generally understandable lectures 165). Tübingen 1933.
  • The constitutions of the German Protestant regional churches from 1919–1933 . In: Theologische Rundschau NF 5 (1933), pp. 335–373.
  • Luther's message of God to the German people . Marburg 1934.
  • The service of the state and the church to the national community In: Evangelisch-Sozial (1937), pp. 77-101.
  • The synoptic question and the historical Jesus . Essen 1941.
  • Hans von Campenhausen (ed.): Truth in Christ. Twelve sermons . Munich 1947.
  • Hans von Campenhausen (Ed.): Early Christianity and History. Collected essays and lectures . Tübingen. Vol. 1, 1951; Vol. 2, 1956.

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Individual evidence

  1. see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5770, p. 135 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Alf Christophersen: Art. Hans von Soden. In: Hans Günter Hockerts (Ed.): New German Biography, Volume 24. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, pp. 523-524 ( digitized version ).