Josef Bohatec

Josef Bohatec (born January 26, 1876 in Kochov , † June 6, 1954 in Weidenau (Siegen) ) was a Czech-Austrian philosopher and theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school in Brno , he studied at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna , where he received a scholarship in 1902. He conducted further studies in theology and philosophy at the Philosophical Faculty in Prague . In 1903 he took his doctorate in philosophy from Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and František Drtina . In 1905 he completed his theological doctorate at the University of Vienna and studied at the theological faculty in Halle (Saale) , as well as studying classical philosophy at the universities in Berlin and Erlangen . In 1907 Bohatec was appointed director of the Reformed Preacher Seminary in Elberfeld . In 1912 he completed his habilitation at the Protestant theological faculty in Bonn and was appointed professor of reformed dogmatics at the Protestant theological faculty in Vienna in 1913 as an associate professor and in 1916 as a full professor. He worked there until his retirement in July 1947.

He held an honorary doctorate in law in Amsterdam and theology in Vienna and Bonn and was an honorary professor at the University of Debrecen (Hungary).

In Vienna he and his wife sought interdenominational encounters within the framework of the Evangelical Alliance (since 1931).

Works

In 1909 Bohatec published his first study on John Calvin , with which he found recognition among fellow researchers. In the following years he became a leading expert in the field of Reformation history, but continued to publish works on the history of philosophy.

Treatises in German

Schleiermacher's Concept of Religion , 1904 (Diss. Prague).
On the latest history of the ontological proof of God , 1906.
Calvin's Doctrine of Providence , in: Josef Bohatec (ed.), Calvinstudien , Leipzig 1909, 339-441 (also Diss. Vienna 1905).
Cartesian Scholasticism in Philosophy and Reformed Dogmatics of the 17th Century , 1912
Calvin and the Law , 1934
Calvin's Doctrine of State and Church , 1936
Calvin's Mind , 1936
Kant's Philosophy of Religion in Religion Within the Limits of Mere Reason , 1938
Budé and Calvin , 1950
England and the history of human and civil rights. Three postponed essays , ed. by Otto Weber , Graz-Cologne 1956.
The idea of imperialism and Dostoyevsky's philosophy of life , 1956

Treatises in the Czech language

Reformace a moderna , 1906
Kalvínovo pojetí státu , 1937

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Josef Bohatec. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 673. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
Johannes Dantine : Josef Bohatec. Calvin researcher and teacher of the Church . In: Karl Schwarz, Falk Wagner (ed.): Changing times and stability. Contributions to the history of the Protestant theological faculty in Vienna 1821-1996 (= series of publications of the University Archives , University of Vienna ; 10). Vienna 1997. pp. 469-485. ( available on Google Books )

Hans Scholl: Josef Bohatec. In: Religion Past and Present . 4th ed., Vol. 1, col. 1667.

Karl Schwarz : Bibliography Josef Bohatec (1876-1954) . In: Yearbook for the History of Protestantism in Austria 99/100 (1983/1984), pp. 38–44.

Karl Schwarz: From Prague via Bonn to Vienna. Josef Bohatec and his appointment to the Vienna Evangelical Theological Faculty in 1913 , in: Communio Viatorum 35 (1993) 232-262

Web links

Literature by and about Josef Bohatec in the catalog of the German National Library

Single receipts

↑ Roman Pfefferle, Hans Pfefferle: Glowly denazified. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years. V&R unipress, Vienna 2014, p. 345.
^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer (Ed.): Evangelical Alliance in Vienna from the First Republic to the Nazi era (1920–45). Edition of the meeting minutes and programs (studies on the history of Christian movements of the Reformation tradition in Austria, 2). VKW, Bonn 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Bohatec, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech-Austrian philosopher and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kochov
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1954
Place of death	Weidenau (Siegen)

[1] Roman Pfefferle, Hans Pfefferle: Glowly denazified. The professorships at the University of Vienna from 1944 in the post-war years. V&R unipress, Vienna 2014, p. 345.

[2] Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer (Ed.): Evangelical Alliance in Vienna from the First Republic to the Nazi era (1920–45). Edition of the meeting minutes and programs (studies on the history of Christian movements of the Reformation tradition in Austria, 2). VKW, Bonn 2010.