Joachim Lell

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Joachim Lell (born February 5, 1916 in Heidenheim an der Brenz , † November 11, 1993 in Bensheim ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and long-time director of the Denominational Institute in Bensheim.

After his vicariate in Ulm, Lell was pastor in Stuttgart from 1952. On November 1, 1957, he took over the office of Federal Director of the Evangelical Federation , which involved working in the Confessional Institute of the Federation in Bensheim. In 1963, his predecessor as federal director, Wolfgang Sucker , who had only worked part-time as director of the institute since 1957, also handed over management to Lell, which he held until his retirement in 1981.

Lell published numerous books and essays on topics of denominational studies and ecumenical theology and was active in many committees, including the Catholica conference of the EKD . In 1968 the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen awarded him an honorary doctorate . From 1980 he had a teaching position at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and was made an honorary professor in 1985.

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.) Renewal of the one church. Works from church history and denominational studies. Heinrich Bornkamm on his 65th birthday . Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966.
  • Mixed marriages? Marriage in the Evangelical-Catholic field of tension . Siebenstern, Hamburg 1967.
  • (with Ferdinand W. Menne :) Religious groups. Alternatives in major churches and society . Patmos, Düsseldorf 1976 (2nd edition 1977).

literature

  • Courage for the future: [Dedicated to Professor D. Joachim Lell on his 70th birthday on February 5, 1986] . Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986.
  • Walter Fleischmann-Bisten : Denominational studies between confession and reconciliation . In: Karl-Reinhart Trauner, Bernd Zimmermann (Hrsg.): 100 Years of the Evangelical Union in Austria: Problems and opportunities in diaspora work . Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, pp. 190f.
  • The religion in history and present . 3rd edition, register volume, col. 141.
personal data
SURNAME Lell, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1993
Place of death Bensheim