Otto Wolff (theologian, 1911)

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Otto Wolff (born February 12, 1911 in Stettin ; † after 1974) was a German Protestant theologian and author.

Life

He studied theology and philosophy in Greifswald , Berlin and Tübingen . He received his doctorate in Tübingen in 1936 with a thesis on the main types of the more recent Luther interpretation. He married Hanna Wolff and in 1937 joined her in the service of the Goßner Mission to work in Ranchi in northern India as a lecturer at the preacher's seminary and principal of the Gossner High School there.

After the Second World War , he taught for two years at the Pedagogical Institute in Reutlingen, before going to South America, where he worked as a professor at the Colegio Mariscal Braun and at the same time as a pastor for the German community there.

In 1951 he received a call from the Indian government to help develop the new Indian teaching system. This led him to Benares , where he reorganized three institutes belonging to the Hindu University . After his return at the end of 1955, he taught at the theological faculty of the University of Marburg . Years of living in a purely Hindu environment led him to an in-depth study of Hinduism . He is particularly influenced by the work of the yogi and philosopher Aurobindo .

Works

  • The main types of the more recent Luther interpretation (= Tübingen studies on systematic theology, volume 7). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, 1938; also: Dissertation, Tübingen 1938.
  • Mahatma and Christ. A character study of Mahatma Gandhi and modern Hinduism. Lettner-Verlag, Berlin 1955.
  • India's contribution to the new image of man (= Rowohlt's Deutsche Enzyklopädie, Volume 56). Rowohlt, Hamburg 1957.
  • Sri Aurobindo, Otto Wolff: The integral yoga (= Rowohlt's classics of literature and science, volume 24). Rowohlt, Hamburg 1957.
  • Radhakrishnan (= Small Vandenhoeck Series, Volume 124). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1962.
  • Sri Aurobindo in personal testimonies and image documents (= Rowohlt's monographs, volume 121). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1967.

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personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century