Karl Müller (theologian)

Karl Ferdinand Friedrich (later: von ) Müller (born September 3, 1852 in Langenburg (Crailsheim district) as the son of a pastor ; † February 10, 1940 in Tübingen ) was a Protestant theologian and church historian .

Life

He studied Protestant theology and history in Tübingen and Göttingen and was a member of the Tübingen Association of Normannia . Karl Müller became professor for church history in Berlin in 1882 , in Halle (Saale) in 1884 , in Gießen in 1886 , in Breslau in 1891 and from 1903 to 1922 at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Tübingen . In 1899 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1917 he was a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Karl Müller was married to Bertha Weizsäcker (1864–1945), the daughter of Julius Weizsäcker , since 1884 . They had two children, Agnes (1886–1922), wife of Richard Siebeck (1883–1965) since 1909 , and Marie (1890–1963), wife of the historian Hermann Haering (1886–1967), the brother of Theodor , since around 1915 Haering .

Services

His work was under the influence of Albrecht Ritschl (1822–1889) and Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930). His main work was church history , which, however, remained unfinished and ends with " Pietism and Enlightenment ". Karl Müller represented a positivist interpretation of church history and viewed it as part of the history of the state , economy and law . He was the editor of the compilation plan of the theological sciences , JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), from 1891, within which the church history appeared.

Works

The fight of Ludwig of Bavaria with the Roman Curia , 2 vol., Laupp, 1879/1880
The Waldensians and their individual groups , 1886 online
Church history , JCBMohr (Paul Siebeck), 1st volume: 1892 (1st half volume) / 1902 (2nd half volume), 2nd volume: 1919
Contributions to the constitution of the old church ; (= Treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 22, Phil.-hist. Class, 3); 1922
The requirement of celibacy for all baptized in the ancient Church ; 1927
From academic work , 1930 (with autobiography)

literature

Walter Nigg: The church historiography. Main features of its historical development , 1934.
Margit Ksoll: Müller, Karl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 294. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )

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Archive of the connection Normannia (Tübingen)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 175.

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Müller, Karl Ferdinand Friedrich; Müller, Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 3, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH	Langenburg (Crailsheim district)
DATE OF DEATH	February 10, 1940
Place of death	Tübingen

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 175.