Karl Bauer (historian)

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The grave of Karl Bauer and his wife Elisabeth, born Larfeld, in the Münster Central Cemetery .

Karl Christof Gustav Adolf , also Carl Bauer , (born June 23, 1874 in Rastatt ; † February 18, 1939 in Münster i. W. ) was a German Protestant Reformed theologian, church historian and university professor .

Life

He was the son of the secret consistorial councilor and pastor Heinrich Bauer († 1915) and his wife Julie née Altfelix. After attending grammar school in Frankfurt am Main , Karl Bauer studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin from 1892. After completing his studies, he became vicar in Kehl am Rhein. Then he was appointed city vicar and senior church council secretary to Karlsruhe . From 1905 to 1919 Karl Bauer was pastor and military chaplain in Donaueschingen. In 1919 he received his doctorate in theology in Münster and became a private lecturer. In 1924 he was appointed an honorary theological doctor and in 1925 an associate professor. From then on he worked as a non-civil servant associate professor for church history and practical theology, the history of the Reformed Church and mission history at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster. He died before reaching retirement in 1939.

Fonts (selection)

  • Antioch in the oldest church history (= collection of generally understandable lectures and writings from the field of theology and religious history, 87), Tübingen: Mohr, 1919.
  • Calvin's relations with Frankfurt a. M. , Leipzig: Heinsius, 1920.
  • The end of the Reformed church service in the imperial city of Frankfurt a. M. in 1561 , Münster i. W., 1924.
  • Valérand Poullain, a church-historical picture from the middle of the sixteenth century , Elberfeld: Bookshop of the Erziehungs-Verein, 1927.
  • The Wittenberg University Theology and the Beginnings of the German Reformation , Tübingen: JCB Mohr, 1928.
  • The sources for the so-called Verden bloodbath , Münster: Regensbergsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1937.
  • From the great time of the theological faculty in Heidelberg , Lahr: Schauenburg, 1938.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of persons on German Protestantism 1919-1949 , 2006, page 28.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Carl; Bauer, Karl Christof Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1939
Place of death Muenster