Johannes Leipoldt

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Johannes Leipoldt (born December 20, 1880 in Dresden , † February 22, 1965 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant theologian and religious scholar with a research focus on the New Testament . He belonged to the movement of the German Christians .

Life

Leipoldt was the son of high school professor Gustav Leipoldt (1850-1910) and Elise Martha Leipoldt (1852-1938). He attended the Royal High School in Dresden and in 1899, after passing his Abitur, began studying theology and oriental studies in Berlin , but moved to Leipzig that same year. In July 1903 he published a monograph on Schenute by Atripe . With this thesis on Coptic Christianity of the 4th and 5th centuries , he received his doctorate in philosophy, followed by a theological doctorate in late July 1905.

Johannes Leipoldt married the pastor's daughter Irmgard Käte Werner on October 11, 1909 (born March 24, 1887 in Ottendorf-Okrilla ; officially † February 10, 1941 in Hartheim Castle ; actually † January 28, 1941 in Pirna-Sonnenstein ). The daughter Ingeborg Leipoldt (born February 14, 1911) came from this connection. In 2007 a stumbling block was laid for Käte Leipold in Leipzig, Waldstrasse 59.

His habilitation thesis dealt with a treatise on Didymus the Blind , he was first in Leipzig, then in Halle private lecturer . In 1909 he received a full professorship for the New Testament at Kiel University and moved to Münster in 1914 . In 1916 he followed a call to Leipzig, where he took over the chair of his teacher Georg Heinrici .

In 1933 he wrote the book Antisemitism in the Old World , in 1939 he became a member of the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life .

After 1945 he was canon of the Meissen Monastery and received a professorship with a chair for New Testament science in Leipzig. He was accepted as a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1954 and in gold in 1960. His students included u. a. Walter Grundmann and Carl Schneider .

Leipoldt was from 1953 to 1963 a member of the People's Chamber as a representative of the CDU .

Works (selection)

  • Schenute von Atripe and the emergence of the national Egyptian Christianity (= texts and investigations on the history of early Christian literature. New series, volume 10, issue 1). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1903.
  • From the present image of Jesus. 6 essays . Dörffling & Franke, Leipzig 1913.
  • The masculine way of Jesus . Reichert, Leipzig 1918.
  • Early Christianity and the present . Men's hat, winter 1920.
  • Did Jesus Live? Dörffling & Franke, Leipzig 1920.
  • Jesus and modern humanity . Eger, Leipzig 1920.
  • Jesus and the women. Images from the moral history of the old world . Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1921.
  • Was Jesus a Jew? In: New Testament and History of Religion . Deichert, Leipzig 1923.
  • The early Christian baptism in the light of the history of religion . Verlag von Dörffling & Franke, Leipzig 1928
  • Anti-Semitism in the old world . 1933.
  • Appropriate Christianity . Leipzig 1935.
  • Jesus' relationship to Greeks and Jews. Germanism, Christianity and Judaism . Publication of the Institute for Research into the Jewish Influence on Church Life, Leipzig 1941.
  • The Roman Emperor Julian in the History of Religion . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964.
  • The social thought in the early Christian church . Leipzig, 1970.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Losinski: "Yes, I should be burned." The life of the professor's wife Käte Leipold (1887–1941) In: Sonnenstein, contributions to the history of the Sonnenstein and Saxon Switzerland , issue 10/2012, pp. 49–56.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland , December 20, 1960, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Leipoldt, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1965
Place of death Leipzig