Otto Baltzer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gottlob Otto Baltzer (born August 17, 1863 in Friedersdorf ; † November 1, 1934 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German Protestant pastor and superintendent.

Life

Baltzer was the son of Pastor Gottlob Otto Baltzer and his wife Helene nee Nicolai. His ancestors on his father's side had been pastors since 1667, while his mother's ancestors were leaseholders.

After attending the monastery high school in Magdeburg , Otto Baltzer studied theology at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin. He then worked as a private tutor at the Candidate Convict in Magdeburg. From 1887 to 1889 he did his military service in Berlin and in 1889 worked as a pastor in Weißig am Bober . At the Evangelical Faculty in Breslau he passed the examination as theological licentiate .

In 1902 Otto Baltzer became pastor at the monastery school in Guben . In 1913 he moved to the St. Gotthardt Church in Brandenburg an der Havel as pastor and superintendent . At the age of 70, he retired in October 1933. He died a year later.

He was a member of the Brandenburg Provincial Synod and the General Synod of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .

family

He was married to Marie born Schenkel, cousin of Friedrich Nietzsche, since 1889 . Their daughter Eva emerged from their marriage in 1892.

Works (selection)

  • The Christology of St. Hilary of Poitiers , 1889.
  • Selected sermons by St. Bernard on the Song of Songs , Freiburg, Leipzig, 1893.
  • Contributions to the history of christological dogmas in the 11th and 12th centuries , 1899.
  • The sentences of Petrus Lombardus , their sources and their significance in the history of dogma , 1902.
  • Practical eschatology . Christian hope in the current proclamation of the gospel , Göttingen, 1908.
  • Questions of faith. Three lectures (= collection of generally understandable lectures and writings from the field of theology and the history of religion, Volume 63), 1911.
  • Family tree of the Baltzer family , 1929.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The DNB statement that he was born in Friederisdorf, Elbe-Elster district, is incorrect.
personal data
SURNAME Baltzer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baltzer, Gottlob Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor and superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedersdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1934
Place of death Brandenburg on the Havel