Horst Weigelt (theologian)
Horst Weigelt (* 1934 in Liegnitz ) is a German Protestant theologian. From 1975 to 2002 he was Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg .
Life
After four years of studying Protestant theology at the Universities of Erlangen and Tübingen, he passed the first and second theological exams in 1958 and 1960. The following year he received his doctorate in Erlangen, Dr. theol. and in 1969 he completed his habilitation. In 1962 he was in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria ordained .
From 1969 Horst Weigelt worked as a private lecturer and from 1974 as a university lecturer at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 1975 he took over the chair for historical and systematic theology at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and was at the same time a lecturer for Bavarian church history at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 2002 he retired .
Two children were born from her marriage to Eva Elisabethestrich, eldest daughter of the theologian Joachim BEGICH .
His main research interests are Reformation, Pietism and Enlightenment in the early modern period.
Publications (selection)
- Pietism Studies . Part 1: The Spener-Halle Pietism (Works on Theology II / 4), Stuttgart 1965
- Johann Kaspar Lavater. Life, work and effect. Göttingen 1991
- Johann Kaspar Lavater travel diaries. Vol. 1. Diary from the study and educational trip to Germany in 1763 and 1764. Göttingen 1997
- Johann Kaspar Lavater travel diaries. Vol. 2. Travel diary to southern Germany including Göttingen 1997
- From Schwenckfeld to Löhe. Aspects from the history of Protestant theology and piety in Bavaria. Collected Essays. Neustadt ad Aisch 1999
- History of Pietism in Bavaria. Göttingen 2001
- Johannes Schwanhauser. Writings and sermons. Neustadt ad Aisch 2010
- as ed. with Dietrich Meyer , Gustav Adolf Benrath, Ulrich Hutter-Wolandt and Ludwig Petry : On the history of the Protestant Church in Silesia. Munich 1992.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Wolter: Pastor's Children in World War I , Halle 2014, p. 61.
Web links
- Literature by and about Horst Weigelt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage at the University of Bamberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weigelt, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liegnitz |