Joachim Mehlhausen

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Joachim Mehlhausen (born June 3, 1935 in Berlin , † April 3, 2000 in Düsseldorf ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Life

Mehlhausen's personal signature

After studying Protestant theology in Hamburg, Zurich, Basel and Bonn Mehlhausen 1965 with at Bizer Ernst created work for Dr. theol. PhD. As Bizer's assistant from 1965 to 1973, he was able to complete his habilitation in 1971 . In 1973 he became pastor of the Bonn Kreuzkirchengemeinde, and in 1976 he became a regional councilor of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . As a senior church councilor and full-time member of the Rhenish church leadership, he was responsible for the training and testing of theological offspring from 1981 until he was appointed to a professorship for church history and church order at the University of Tübingen in 1987 . He worked here until autumn 1998 when he lost consciousness permanently due to a stroke.

After working on the history of the Reformation and the 19th century, Mehlhausen's research in the last decade of his life was mainly devoted to German Protestantism under National Socialism and in the post-war period. Since 1988 he has been chairman of the Evangelical Working Group on Contemporary Church History . He was also co-editor of the theological lexicon Theologische Realenzyklopädie and the journals Evangelical Theologie , the journal for church history and proclamation and research . From 1990 to 1995 he was first chairman of the Scientific Society for Theology .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Dialectic, self-awareness and revelation. The foundations of the speculative orthodoxy of Bruno Bauer are presented in their connection with the history of the theological Hegel school. Dissertation. University of Bonn 1964.
  • Vestigia Verbi: Essays on the history of Protestant theology. de Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-11-015053-0 .

Editorships

  • Friedrich Buchholz: liturgy and community. Collected essays , Munich 1971.
  • The Augsburg Interim of 1548 (= texts on the history of Protestant theology. Volume 3). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1970; 2nd edition 1992.
  • Reformation commemoration. Contributions to the Luther year 1983 from the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland. Habelt, Bonn 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0812-4 .
  • with Anselm Doering-Manteuffel : Christian ethos and the resistance against National Socialism in Europe. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1995.
  • ... and beyond Barmen. Studies on contemporary church history. Festschrift for Carsten Nicolaisen on April 4, 1994. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995.
  • Witnesses of the resistance. Former students of the University of Tübingen who died in the fight against National Socialism. Mohr, Tübingen 1996. 2nd edition 1998, ISBN 3-16-146535-0 .
  • Two states - two churches? Evangelical Church in divided Germany; Research results and trends. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Mehlhausen, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 2000
Place of death Dusseldorf