Heinrich Holtzmann

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Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (born May 17, 1832 in Karlsruhe , † August 4, 1910 in Baden-Baden - Lichtental ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Heinrich Holtzmann, a son of the theologian Karl Julius Holtzmann , studied Protestant theology in Heidelberg and Berlin from 1850 to 1854. Formative teachers were Wilhelm Vatke and Richard Rothe . He was a member of the Christian student associations Berliner Wingolf and Heidelberger Wingolf . After receiving his doctorate in 1858, he first worked as a teacher at the seminary . In 1861 he became an associate professor and in 1865 a full professor of theology in Heidelberg . In 1874 he went to Strasbourg in this capacity . There he taught until his retirement in 1904 and served as rector in 1878 .

Holtzmann is considered to be the main representative of the ecclesiastical direction of the German Protestant Association . In his writings he combines a strict, critical conception with the understanding of human, Christian-religious problems. Holtzmann was one of the most important representatives of historical-critical exegesis and dealt primarily with the New Testament . Even in his early work The Synoptic Gospels, Their Origin and Historical Character (1863), he convincingly developed the two-source theory .

From 1867 to 1870 Holtzmann was a member of the second chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly for the electoral district of Heidelberg .

His wife was the daughter of the historian Georg Weber . The women's rights activist and politician Adelheid Steinmann was his daughter. The historian Robert Holtzmann and the hygienist Friedrich Holtzmann were his sons.

Fonts

  • Canon and tradition. A contribution to the recent history of dogma and symbolism. Ludwigsburg 1859.
  • The Synoptic Gospels, their origin and historical character. 1863.
  • The pastoral letters, treated critically and exegetically. Leipzig 1880.
  • with Richard Otto Zoepffel : Lexicon for theology and church affairs. Doctrine, history and cult, constitution, customs, festivals, sects and orders of the Christian church, the most important from the other religious communities. Leipzig 1882.
  • Textbook of the historical-critical introduction to the New Testament. 1885, 3rd ed. 1892.
  • Textbook of New Testament theology. 2 vols. Freiburg i. Br. 1897.
  • Richard Rothe's speculative system. Freiburg i. Br. U. a. 1899.
  • The synoptics. Third, completely revised edition. Hand-Commentar on the New Testament I / 1. Tübingen u. a. 1901.
  • The making of the New Testament. 1904 (2nd edition 1911).

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