Karl Bornhauser

Karl Bornhäuser (born May 19, 1868 in Mannheim , † March 27, 1947 in Marburg an der Lahn ) was a Protestant theologian .

Life

Bornhäuser was the son of a master baker and attended high school in Bruchsal . Then he studied theology at the universities of Greifswald - there he studied with Hermann Cremer - and Halle . In 1889 he passed the first theological exam, a year later the second. In 1890 he was ordained by the Evangelical Church in Baden and was pastor in Sinsheim and Karlsruhe .

In 1892/93 he completed his military service in Karlsruhe and served as a one-year volunteer in the 1st Baden Leib Grenadier Regiment No. 109 . He was a member of the Wingolf associations Hallenser Wingolf , Greifswalder Wingolf, Heidelberger Wingolf , Marburger Wingolf and Clausthaler Wingolf zu Marburg.

In 1894 he became a division pastor in Rastatt . Four years later he took a leave of absence and received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1899 (dissertation: “The right to confess to the resurrection of the flesh”). Later he was a professor in Greifswald, Halle (Saale) and Marburg . In 1933 he retired as a university preacher at the Philipps University of Marburg .

Works (selection)

• The right to confess the resurrection of the flesh. 1902.
• The working of Christ through deeds and words. 1921 (2nd edition 1924).
• Times and hours in the Passion and Resurrection story. 1921.
• The Sermon on the Mount. 1923 (2nd edition 1927; 1930 in Swedish).
• The birth and childhood story of Jesus. 1930.
• The original sense of the Little Catechism of Martin Luther. 1933.
• Days and Hours in the New Testament. 1937.
• The story of the passion and resurrection of Jesus. 1947.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Karl Bornhäuser. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 705. , ISBN 3-88309-013-1
• Alfred Uckeley : Karl Bornhäuser in memoriam . In: Theologische Literaturzeitung (ThLZ) . tape 74 , 1949, pp. 761 ff .
• Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis . Marburg 1979, p. 10 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Bornhäuser in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Karl Bornhäuser in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5774, p. 395 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ W. Betzler (ed.): Complete directory of Wingolfs. Lichtenberg 1991 p. M15.