Martin Greschat

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Martin Greschat (born September 29, 1934 in Wuppertal ; † November 3, 2017 ) was a German church historian.

Life

Martin Greschat was born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. In 1955 he graduated from high school in Marl (Westphalia) and then studied Protestant theology, German and history in Münster and Tübingen; During the semester break he worked several times as a miner underground. In 1961 he passed the first ecclesiastical examination, followed by a special vicariate that led Greschat to the redeemer parish in Münster and to the editorial assistant at the local Bucer Institute. It was 1964 in which Greschat celebrated the year his thirtieth birthday and who accepted two important statements, the Second Church exams and ordination as pastor of the Westphalian State Church and its promotion to Doctor of theology by the University of Muenster with the work "Melanchthon next to Luther. Studies on the Form of the Doctrine of Justification between 1528 and 1537 ”(printed in 1965). A year later, freshly ordained, he took up the position of assistant at the chair of the Münster church historian Robert Stupperich . The post-doctoral thesis “Between Tradition and New Beginning. Valentin Ernst Löscher and the outcome of Lutheran Orthodoxy ”(it was printed in 1971 in 1971) is one of the standard works in recent church history.

From 1972 to 1980 Greschat taught as a scientific advisor and professor for church history and contemporary church history in Münster. In 1980 he was appointed professor for church history and contemporary church history at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . He taught there until his retirement in 1999.

Greschat was the author and editor of numerous publications on various topics of church history. From 1975 Greschat, as a member of the “Evangelical Working Group for Contemporary Church History”, made a decisive contribution to its development. His main research interests included the Reformation and contemporary church history . Among other things, he was the editor of the collective work Gestalten der Kirchengeschichte, which ranges in 14 volumes from antiquity to the present day.

Martin Greschat had three daughters: the theologian Katharina Greschat , the art historian Isabel Greschat and the speech therapist Sabine Greschat.

Fonts (selection)

  • Melanchthon next to Luther. Studies on the form of the doctrine of justification between 1528 and 1537 (= studies on church history. Volume 1). Luther-Verlag, Witten 1965, DNB 451656210 (Habil.-Schrift, Münster / Westf. 1964).
  • Between tradition and a new beginning. Valentin Ernst Löscher and the outcome of Lutheran orthodoxy. Witten 1971.
  • German Protestantism in the revolutionary year 1918–1919. Witten 1974.
  • The age of the industrial revolution. Christianity before modernity. Stuttgart 1980.
  • Martin Bucer. A reformer and his time. Munich 1990.
  • History of Christianity II: From the Reformation to the Present. Stuttgart 1997.
  • The Christian dowry of Europe, traditions of the future. Stuttgart 2000.
  • Evangelical Christianity and German history after 1945. Setting the course in the post-war period. Stuttgart 2002.
  • Protestantism in Europe. History - present - future. Darmstadt 2005.
  • Protestantism in the Federal Republic of Germany (1945 to 2005). Leipzig 2010.
  • Protestantism in the Cold War. Church, politics and society in divided Germany 1945–1963. Paderborn 2010.
  • World War I and Christianity: A Global Overview. Stuttgart 2014.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. theol. Martin Greschat: Obituary notice: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In: Lebenswege.faz.net. Retrieved November 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Albrecht Beutel : Martin Greschat in memory. For the Westphalian Wilhelms University [1]
  3. ↑ Albrecht Beutel: Martin Greschat in memory. Obituary of the University of Münster [2]
personal data
SURNAME Greschat, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 2017