Martin Dibelius

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Grave of the Dibelius couple in individual graves one behind the other Heidelberg Bergfriedhof on Professorenweg in the (Dept. D)

Martin Franz Dibelius (born September 14, 1883 in Dresden , † November 11, 1947 in Heidelberg ) was a German Protestant theologian and professor of the New Testament at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Family and career

Dibelius is the son of the pastor and last Saxon court preacher Franz Wilhelm Dibelius and a cousin of Otto Dibelius . Martin Dibelius was married to Dorothea, b. Wittich. He studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the University of Neuchâtel , the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , the University of Leipzig and the Humboldt University of Berlin , where he received his first lectureship in 1910. In 1915 he followed a call as a full professor for the New Testament at the theological faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Since 1926 he was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Work and meaning

Dibelius' most important scientific achievement was the establishment of the form-historical method in synoptic research through his monograph Die Formgeschichte des Evangeliums , Tübingen 1919 (at the same time as Karl Ludwig Schmidt ). He also wrote monographs a. a. on New Testament ethics and comments on smaller Pauline letters as well as on the letter of James .

In the so-called “Fall Dehn” he showed solidarity with Günther Dehn , a supporter of dialectical theology , social democrats and pacifists . For this time (1931–1932) it was an extremely courageous step that only three (sometimes four) colleagues dared to take. Many other theology professors sympathized with the demands of the National Socialist student body that Dehn should be excluded from the university.

The grave of Martin Dibelius and his wife Dorothea is located in individual graves one behind the other on the so-called "Professoren-Weg" in the Bergfriedhof (Heidelberg) in Department D.

Fonts (selection)

  • The letters of the apostle Paul to Timothy I, II, To Titus . (= New Testament manual 3.2). Mohr, Tübingen 1913
    • New edition: The Pastoral Letters (= New Testament Handbook 13). Mohr, Tübingen 1919; 4th edition 1966.
    • The Pastoral epistles, a commentary on the Pastoral epistles . Fortress, Philadelphia 1972.
  • The history of forms of the gospel . Mohr, Tübingen 1919; 6th edition 1971.
    • From tradition to gospel . Scribner, New York 1965.
  • Historical and supra-historical religion in Christianity . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1925.
  • History of early Christian literature . de Gruyter, Berlin 1926; 3rd edition 1990.
  • Jesus (= Göschen Collection , 1130). Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 1939; 2nd edition 1947; 3rd edition 1960; 4th edition 1966.
    • Jesus . Westminster Press, Philadelphia 1949.
  • British Christianity and British World Power. (= The British Empire in World Politics , Volume 21, also: Writings of the German Institute for Foreign Policy Research and the Hamburg Institute for Foreign Policy , Volume 36). Junker & Dünnhaupt , Leipzig 1940.
  • Paul . After the author's death, ed. and completed by Werner Georg Kümmel (= Göschen Collection, vol. 1160). de Gruyter, Berlin 1951; 3rd edition 1964; 4th edition 1970.
    • Paul . Longmans, Green and Co., London 1953.
  • Essays on the Acts of the Apostles . Edited by Heinrich Greeven . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1949; 5th edition 1968.
    • Studies in the acts of the apostles . SCM Press, London 1956; 2nd edition 1973.
  • Message and story. Collected essays . In connection with Heinz Kraft ed. by Günther Bornkamm . Mohr, Tuebingen.
    • Vol. 1. On Gospel Research . 1953
    • Vol. 2. On early Christianity and the Hellenistic history of religion . 1956.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Martin Dibelius. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Dibelius, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dibelius, Martin Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1947
Place of death Heidelberg