Karl Theodor Schäfer

Karl Theodor Schäfer (born July 27, 1900 in Essen , † October 4, 1974 in Bonn ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and New Testament exegete at the University of Bonn .

After his youth in Essen, where he co-founded the Essen group of the Bund New Germany , he studied Catholic theology in Bonn, Cologne and Rome . In 1924 he was ordained a priest in Cologne and was chaplain to St. Laurentius in Elberfeld . 1925–1928 Schäfer spent as an alumnus of the Pontifical Biblical Institute and Konviktor in the Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome and received his doctorate in Bonn in 1928. His doctorate in the licentiate of Biblical Studies in Rome. After his habilitation in Bonn in 1931, he was appointed associate professor at the Philosophical-Theological University of Regensburg in 1932 . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1937 he went to the Staatliche Akademie Braunsberg ( Braniewo ) until it closed in 1945. Then he took over a parish in Delhoven on the Lower Rhine until 1948 . In 1946 he was appointed full professor of the New Testament at the University of Bonn and remained until his retirement in 1969. Schäfer served as dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty in 1948/49 and 1959/60 and as rector and vice-rector in 1956/57 and 1957/58 the University.

Schäfer published many writings on the New Testament . His work on the constitutional history of this university (1968) is important for the University of Bonn. In 1966 he was appointed papal house prelate .

Fonts

• Mithrsg .: 150 years of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn: 1818–1968 , Bonn 1968
• The old Latin Bible. Speech at the beginning d. Rectorate d. Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelms University in Bonn on November 17, 1956 , Hanstein 1957
• Studies on the history of the Latin translation of the Letter to the Hebrews , 1928 (= dissertation)

Web links

• Estate in the LAV NRW