Karl Hammer (church historian)

Karl Hammer (born June 1, 1936 in Ansbach , † December 1, 2010 in Weil am Rhein ) was a Protestant church historian.

After graduating from high school in Ansbach in 1954, he studied Protestant theology in Tübingen, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Basel and Erlangen. He received his doctorate in 1961 at the University of Basel under Karl Barth with the thesis WA Mozart - a theological interpretation to Dr. theol. and completed his habilitation there in 1969 with a thesis on Christian, especially Protestant war sermons as well as the theological sacralization of war. This work, which is also distributed as a paperback, is also a biographical lexicon for theologians from the relevant field.

From 1967 to 1972 Hammer was pastor in Delémont . He then worked until his retirement in 1999 as a pastor in the Theodor parish of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Basel-Stadt . He was also an associate professor for recent church history at the University of Basel . He last lived in Weil am Rhein.

Fonts

• WA Mozart. A theological interpretation. Basel 1961. Zurich: evz 1964
• Germany in the light of the kingdom of God. In memory of Wilhelm Hoffmann. In: Theologische Zeitschrift 25 (Basel 1969), pp. 182–194
• German War Theology 1870–1918, Gilching 1971. 2nd edition Munich: dtv 1974 (dtv 4151)
• Adolf von Harnack and the First World War, in: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik, Gütersloh 1972, pp. 85 ff
• Christians, war and peace. A historical analysis. Freiburg / Olten: Walter 1972
• German Protestantism and the First World War, in: Francia 2 (1974), p. 398 ff
• World Mission and Colonialism. 19th century broadcast ideas in conflict. Munich: Kösel 1978 (dtv Wissenschaft 4368, Munich 1981)

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Hammer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary at www.erk-bs.ch , accessed on September 29, 2014.
• Karl Hammer in conversation with Jürgen Schleifer (BR, 2006) .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in memoria vestri ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 29, 2014.