Holger Roggelin

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Holger Roggelin (* 1962 in Lübeck ) is a German-American Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

Roggelin visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . After graduating from high school (1982), he studied Protestant theology at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and at Keble College in Oxford. In 1989 he passed the first ecclesiastical examination in Kiel (corresponding to a Magister Theologiae ). This was followed by doctoral studies as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation with research stays in Great Britain and the USA on the life and work of Franz Hildebrandt . From 1991 to 1993 he completed his vicariate at the Bugenhagenkirche (Hamburg-Barmbek) . 1993 ordained , he was in 1995 in Kiel with one of Reinhart State supervised dissertation Dr. theol. PhD.

His first pastor was at St. Nicolai (Mölln) . Initially on leave of absence from the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church , in 2000 he accepted a call as pastor at the Zion Church of the City of Baltimore , the oldest German-American parish in Baltimore . From 2001 he was a member of the board and from 2003 to 2007 and from 2013 to 2015 President of the German Evangelical Lutheran Conference in North America (DELKINA), the conference of interests for German-speaking pastoral care in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). Since 2010 he has both German and United States citizenship .

At the ELCA's Delaware-Maryland Synod , he was the bishop's agent for the ecumenical movement . Toronto. On February 1, 2015, he moved to the Messiah Lutheran Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania . He is one of the staff of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werkausgabe and is a member of the International Bonhoeffer Society .

In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , the home of his ancestors, he was committed to the preservation of the Stralsund archives of the grammar school library.

Works

  • Collaboration with Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Barcelona, ​​Berlin, Amerika 1928–1931 (DBW 10) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1991, ISBN 978-3-579-01880-5 , 2nd edition 2005, special edition 2015.
  • with Joachim Stüben: Orate pro patre Seghebando! On the origin and meaning of the Möllner cradle prints . In: Lauenburgische Heimat 144 (1996), pp. 40–59.
  • Franz Hildebrandt. A Lutheran dissenter in the church struggle and in exile . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 1999, zugl .: Kiel, Univ., Diss., 1995 ISBN 3-525-55731-0 (work on contemporary church history B 31). GoogleBooks
  • with Andreas Pangritz: Who sings Gregorian? Thesis and comment . In: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Jahrbuch 2 (2005), pp. 196–202.
  • New sources on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's habilitation in 1930. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Jahrbuch (2008), pp. 61–74.
  • with Scott W Gustafson (Ed.): Lutheranism legacy and future. Essays in honor of Eric W. Gritsch on the 50th anniversary of his ordination. Conshohocken, PA: Infinity 2012 ISBN 9780741478818
  • with Horst Alsleben and Rüdiger Döhler : The Dobbin Church - an old village beauty . Mein Mecklenburg IV / 2015, pp. 47–49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Messiah Lutheran Church Harrisburg ( Memento from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Franz Hildebrandt - a Lutheran dissenter in the church struggle and exile .
  3. ↑ EKD (2005) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ DELKINA (2015)
  5. ↑ DELKINA
  6. ↑ EKD
  7. ^ WorldCat
personal data
SURNAME Roggelin, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck