Otto Pfleiderer

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Otto Pfleiderer
Grave of Otto Pfleiderer in the Lankwitz cemetery . Coordinates of the grave: 52 ° 25 ′ 25.8 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 1.9 ″  E

Otto Pfleiderer (born September 1, 1839 in Stetten im Remstal , † July 18, 1908 in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Otto was born as the son of the mathematics teacher Eduard Karl Pfleiderer (* March 9, 1810 - March 30, 1861) and his wife Anna Auguste Pfleiderer born. Sigel (born December 18, 1815; † 1873). He experienced his childhood in Heilbronn and attended the Maulbronn monastery school. After attending the seminar in Blaubeuren, Pfleiderer studied theology and philosophy at the University of Tübingen from 1857 to 1861 . Here, among others, Ferdinand Christian Baur and Johann Tobias Beck became his teachers. He then worked as a vicar in Eningen near Reutlingen and completed a study trip through northern Germany, as well as in England and Scotland .

In 1864 he became a repetiteur at the Tübingen monastery and qualified as a lecturer there in 1865 . After a short interlude in 1868 as the city pastor in Heilbronn , he was appointed to Jena as senior pastor and superintendent in 1870 .

In the winter semester of 1870/71 he became a full professor for practical theology at the University of Jena . Associated with this, he was university preacher and director of the homiletic and catechetical seminary. He had also been appointed to the church council and was rector of the alma mater in the winter semester of 1874 . In 1874, against the will of the theological faculty, he was appointed professor for exegesis and practical theology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today Humboldt-Universität) by the Prussian minister of education, Adalbert Falk . In the winter semester of 1875/76 he was able to switch to the chair for systematic theology . There he was also rector of the university in 1894 and taught until immediately before his death.

He was buried in the Lankwitz cemetery in Berlin-Lichterfelde at the grave site Department C1 / 1st election series number 72. The writer Else Pfleiderer (born March 3, 1877 in Berlin; † July 6, 1937 in Bonn) was married to Marie Kornbeck on December 15, 1868 (* March 5, 1845: † August 16, 1921 in Berlin) on June 29, 1904 with Pastor Otto Zurhellen (born March 27, 1877 in Mülheim an der Ruhr; † November 4, 1914 in Andechy, France).

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Pfleiderer published mainly on the philosophy of religion and on the history of early Christianity . His first fundamental work, Religion, its essence and history (1868), emerged from lectures in Tübingen . The philosophy of religion on a historical basis carried the thoughts further and tried to combine the tradition of German idealism with contemporary comparative religious studies.

With his thesis that it was Paul who founded Christianity with his Paulinism and that this should be seen as the goal and climax of Hellenism, he took up the approaches of his teacher Baur. In doing so, he opposed the ideas of Albrecht Ritschl and Adolf von Harnack . He had close ties to Great Britain and the USA, where his influence was greater than in Germany. Pfleiderer was one of the supporters of the women's movement.

Works (selection)

  • The history of religion. Leipzig 1869 2nd volume ( online )
  • Morality and religion discussed historically and philosophically according to their mutual relationship. Harlem, 1871 ( online ), Leipzig 1872 ( online )
  • Paulinism. A contribution to the history of early Christian theology Leipzig 1873, Leipzig 1890 ( [1] on archive.org)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling. Commemorative speech to celebrate his Secular anniversary. Stuttgart 1875
  • The German Philosophy of Religion and its Significance for Contemporary Theology (1875)
  • The early Christianity, its writings and teachings, described in historical context Berlin 1878; 2nd edition Berlin 1902, 2nd vol.
  • Philosophy of religion on a historical basis. Berlin 1878, 2nd edition Berlin 1884, 2nd vol.
  • For religious understanding. Berlin 1879
  • Outline of the Christian doctrine of faith and morals. Berlin 1882
  • History of the philosophy of religion from Spinoza to the present day. (1st and 2nd edition 1883, 3rd edition Berlin 1893)
  • Outline of the Christian doctrine of faith and morals as a compendium for students and as a guide for teaching in higher schools (1886; 6th edition 1898)
  • The Development of Theology in Germany since Kant and its Progress in Great Britain since 1825 (1890; German 1891) online resource
  • The Philosophy and Development of Religion (1894; Gifford Lectures ) online resource
  • The Idea of ​​Eternal Peace (1895)
  • The image of Christ of the early Christian faith, in the light of religious history. Berlin 1903
  • The emergence of Christianity . Munich 1905 ( https://archive.org/details/dieentstehungdes00pfleuoft )
  • About the relationship between the philosophy of religion and other sciences. Berlin 1906
  • Religion and religions Munich 1906, 1911
  • The Development of Christianity (1907)

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Otto Pfleiderer. hu-berlin.de , accessed on June 22, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Helene Lange: Intellectual boundary lines between man and woman. In: The woman. Monthly magazine for the entire women's life of our time. 6/3 (1897), pp. 321-334, here p. 330.
personal data
SURNAME Pfleiderer, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Stetten in the Remstal
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1908
Place of death Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin