Karl Sell (theologian)

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Karl Wilhelm Johannes Sell (born November 29, 1845 in Gießen ; † December 22, 1914 in Bonn ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian .

Life

Karl Sell was born as the son of law professor Wilhelm Sell. From 1863 to 1867 he studied Protestant theology in Halle, Göttingen and Gießen . During his studies he was a member of the 1869 Schwarzenburg Bund - connection Tuiskonia Hall . In Giessen he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. As a war volunteer he took part in the Franco-German War . Then he became vicar and pastor. From 1882 to 1891 he worked as senior consistorial advisor, superintendent and pastor in Darmstadt . In 1883 the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Gießen made him D. theol. In 1891 he followed a call to the full professorship of church history at the University of Bonn . He was elected dean of the faculty several times and rector of the university in 1912 . On December 22, 1914, he died of a stroke during his fourth deanery on the way home from a performance of a Christmas oratorio .

His research subjects were different areas of church history, Christian art and German idealism . Sell ​​was buried in the Kessenich mountain cemetery.

  • Gravestone in the Kessenicher Bergfriedhof

Fonts (selection)

  • Rhymes for Alwine. Dec. 1875 - June 24, 1878 digitized
  • Philipp Melanchthon and the German Reformation until 1531. (= Association for Reformation History: Writings of the Association for Reformation History; No. 56). Association for the History of the Reformation, Halle 1897.
  • The Development of the Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century: Lectures. Mohr, Leipzig 1898.
  • Future tasks of German Protestantism in the new century. (= Collection of generally understandable lectures and writings from the field of theology and the history of religion; H. 19). Mohr, Tübingen 1900.
  • The religion of our classics (Lessing, Herder, Schiller, Goethe). Mohr, Tübingen 1904, 2nd edition 1910. (Mikroreproduktion, Egelsbach, Frankfurt / Main 1994, ISBN 3-8267-3023-2 ).
  • Catholicism and Protestantism in history, religion, politics, culture. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1908.
  • Christianity and world history up to the Reformation. The Origin of Christianity and Its Development as a Church. Teubner, Leipzig 1910.
  • Christianity and world history since the Reformation: Christianity in its development beyond the church. Teubner, Leipzig 1910.
  • The Development of Scientific Theology in the Last Fifty Years. Speech at the beginning of the rectorate of the University of Bonn in 1912. Bonn, A. Marcus and E. Weber, 1912.
  • 'Positive' and 'Modern': a theological proposal for practical compatibility in the Protestantism of the regional churches in Germany and Prussia. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1912.

literature

  • Rector and Senate of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (Hrsg.): The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. Your rectors and famous professors. (= Karl F. Chudoba (Hrsg.): War lectures of the… University of Bonn. Volume II). Bonn University Printing Works, Bonn 1943.
  • Klaus-Gunther Wesseling:  Sell, Karl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1366-1368.
  • Rudolph Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE). Volume 9. 2nd edition. Saur, Munich 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wikisource .
  2. ^ Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 101, no.2155.
  3. ↑ Cf. his speech to the Hessian regional synod on the "social question" in 1890, in: Collection of sources for the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Development and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890-1904) , Volume 1, Basic Questions of Social Policy , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß , Darmstadt 2016, No. 34.
personal data
SURNAME Sell, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sell, Karl Wilhelm Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1914
Place of death Bonn