Ingetraut Ludolphy

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Ingetraut Ludolphy (born March 2, 1921 in Dresden ; † November 17, 2014 there ) was a German theologian and historian .

Life

After studying natural sciences in Jena and Dresden , Ludolphy initially worked in Zschopau from 1946 to 1951 and as a high school teacher at the Dresden-Süd Oberschule for natural science subjects, but then began studying Protestant theology in Leipzig. She completed this in 1956 with an exam and a regional historical dissertation on Henrich Steffens , supervised by Franz Lau and submitted on May 28, 1956 . As early as 1961 she received her habilitation in Leipzig - also with Franz Lau in the subject of church history - with her work on November 3, 1960, The nature with Luther .

A secret collection of money (to pay lawyers in connection with conflicts with the GDR state - due to the extensive monopoly of a Marxist view of history in the GDR) for two teachers of the theological faculty did not remain hidden from the Ministry of State Security and a. to the fact that Ludolphy did not get a professorship and her life's work on Friedrich the Wise of Saxony could not be printed uncensored in the GDR . Ludolphy's colleague Ulrich Kühn was expelled from Leipzig University as early as 1964 , while Ludolphy continued to work as a lecturer - albeit under considerable political pressure - until she was finally officially allowed to devote herself exclusively to research in 1975.

At the age of 60, Ludolphy was retired. Her escape from the GDR led her to Franconia to meet people with a similar Lutheran orientation. They supported them both in terms of livelihood and in the publication of a detailed, scientific biography of Friedrich the Wise: Elector of Saxony 1463–1525 . In Erlangen she was appointed honorary professor and represented the chair for modern church history according to Gerhard Müller . Ludolphy taught both church history and denominational studies at the ecclesiastical Augustana University in Neuendettelsau (substitute professor for Wolfgang Sommer ) and at the universities in Tübingen (substitute professor for Heiko Augustinus Oberman ) and Erlangen . After four years, she was finally appointed professor in 1985. After the fall of the Wall in 1989, a commission dealt with career-impairing political factors since the 1960s, which led to her appointment as professor of Saxon law in 1994.

She spent the last years of her life, marked by serious illness, in the swan house of the deaconess institution in Dresden . The Prof. Ludolphy Foundation ( Dresden ) founded by Ludolphy supports upbringing and education, especially at the Evangelical Kreuzgymnasium Dresden.

She died on November 17, 2014 at the age of 93 in Dresden. The funeral service took place on November 26, 2014 in the Diakonissenhauskirche. Then she was buried in the Dresden North Cemetery.

Services

During the two German dictatorships of National Socialism and the GDR, Ludolphy remained true to both her Christian convictions and her Saxon homeland and, despite professional reprisals, devoted himself to teaching and research on the history of the Church. Your magnum opus on Frederick the Wise of Saxony is still considered fundamental.

Works

  • Henrich Steffens. His relationship with the Lutherans and his share in the development and fate of the old Lutheran congregation in Wroclaw . Diss. (Mach.) Leipzig 1956. = Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin 1962 (theological works; 17);
  • Nature with Luther. Habilitation thesis (typewritten), Leipzig 1960.
  • Luther and the Emperor. In: Luther-Jahrbuch 32 (1961), pp. 110–120.
  • Luther on astrology. In: And asked about Jesus . Festschrift for Ernst Barnikol, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1964, pp. 168–176.
  • The causes of the opposition between Luther and Duke Georg of Saxony . In: Responsibility. Research on questions from theology and history. For the sixtieth birthday of Regional Bishop D. Gottfried Noth DD . Edited by Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Office of Saxony, Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1964.
  • The causes of the opposition between Luther and Duke Georg of Saxony . In: Luther-Jahrbuch 32 (1965), pp. 28–44.
  • The requirements of Charles V's religious policy (= essays and lectures on theology and religious studies, issue 32). Evangelical Publishing House 1965.
  • What God has turned to us. Luther studies . Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1965.
  • Martin Luther's 95 theses. In Latin and in High German . Ed., Translated and annotated by Ingetraut Ludolphy, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1967.
  • The woman in Martin Luther's view. In: Four hundred and fifty years of the Lutheran Reformation . Festschrift for Franz Lau on the occasion of his 60th birthday, ed. v. Helmar Junghans, Ingetraut Ludolphy and Kurt Meier. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967, 204–221.
  • Illustrated History of the Reformation . Edited by Ingetraut Ludolphy, Concordia Publ. House, Saint Louis / London 1967.
  • The indispensability of theological work for the church. In: Albrecht Peters (ed.): The question of God (= Fuldaer Hefte 17). Lutheran Publishing House, Berlin / Hamburg 1967.
  • All of Christianity on earth. Investigation of a position of Luther towards ecumenism . Franz Lau on his 65th birthday, in: ThLZ 97./1972 (Heft 2), Sp. 89–96.
  • On the history of the interpretation of the gospel infantium. In: Gerhard Krause (ed.): The children in the gospel . Magdeburg 1973 (PSA; 10), pp. 31-51.
  • The fight of Duke George of Saxony against the introduction of the Reformation in Saxony. In: The Hochstift Meißen. Special edition on Christian hostels, Berlin 1973, 165–183.
  • What does Luther say about structural issues? In: Luther 2/1974.
  • The Newe Testament Deutzsch (facsimile edition), Deutsche Bibelstiftung, Stuttgart 1978.
  • The religious attitude of Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, before the Reformation as a prerequisite for his policy to protect Luther. In: Yearbook for the History of Protestantism in Austria 96 (1980), pp. 74–89.
  • VDMIAE. A “rhyme” of the Reformation period. In: Yearbook of the Hessian Church History Association 33. (1982), 279–282.
  • Martin Luther's 95 theses , ed. and commented by Ingetraut Ludolphy, Martin-Luther-Bund, Erlangen 1983, ISBN 3-87513-030-8 .
  • On the difficulty of celebrating Luther. In: Jahrbuch Martin-Luther Bund 30 (1983), pp. 48–55.
  • Two pillars of the Reformation, Elector Friedrich von Sachsen and Langraf Philipp von Hessen. In: Yearbook of the Hessian Church History Association 34th (1983), 17-27.
  • The woman in Martin Luther's view. In: Hans Jürgen Schultz (Ed.): Luther controversial . Kreuz Verlag, Stuttgart / Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7831-0694-X .
  • Friedrich the Wise: Elector of Saxony 1463–1525. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-525-55392-7 .
  • To whom are they preaching? German-speaking Lutherans in North America. In: Yearbook Martin-Luther-Bund 1990, pp. 151–168.
  • Back to the roots. In: Yearbook Martin-Luther-Bund 1992, 167-185.
  • Katharina Lutherin of Bora. In: Pfarramtskalender, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999, pp. 9-25.
  • Franz Lau (1907–1973). Church historian and advocate for the Protestant diaspora. In: Jahrbuch Martin-Luther-Bund 48 (2001), ISBN 978-3-87513-127-7 , pp. 205f.
  • The indispensability of theological work for the church. In: Lutheran Contributions 2/2005
  • Das neue Testament Deutsch , Edition Leipzig / Archiv Verlag, Leipzig / Braunschweig 2005 (accompanying text: Ingetraut Ludolphy).
  • Das neue Testament Deutsch , Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-361-00605-8 (accompanying text: Ingetraut Ludolphy).
  • Martin Luther's 95 theses. ed. and commented on by Ingetraut Ludolphy, Martin-Luther-Bund, Erlangen 2006, ISBN 3-87513-030-8 .
  • Friedrich the Wise: Elector of Saxony 1463–1525. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-86583-138-9 .

literature

  • Martin Roy: Luther in the GDR. On the change in the image of Luther in GDR historiography , with a documentary reproduction. Studies on the history of science 1, Winkler, Bochum 2000, ISBN 978-3-930083-24-4 .
  • Lothar Mertens : Priest of the Klio or court chronicler of the party? Collective biographical analyzes of the GDR historians. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89971-307-9 , especially pp. 99-101.
  • Willy Lange: Find a second husband. About Stasi imprisonment in Leipzig and Mecklenburg country pastor life. State representative f. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the records of the State Security Service of the former GDR, Schwerin 2010, ISBN 978-3-933255-34-1 .
  • Reiner Andreas Neuschäfer: Ludolphy, Elise Ingetraut. In: BBKL XXXVII (2016), Col. 675-684.

Awards

In 1976 Ludolphy received an honorary doctorate "of Humane Letters" from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois (USA). Since she was not allowed to leave the GDR, it was presented to her in the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An extraordinary woman. In: 100 Years of the Dresden-Plauen Gymnasium, annual report 1995/96 p. 152
  2. ^ Obituary notice, published in the Sächsische Zeitung on November 22, 2014. Accessed on November 30, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Ludolphy, Ingetraut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 2014
Place of death Dresden