Paul Drews (theologian)

Paul Gottfried Drews (born May 8, 1858 in Eibenstock , † August 1, 1912 in Halle (Saale) ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor .

Life

Paul Drews was born in 1858 as the son of the businessman August Drews and his wife Alma Zeißig, daughter of a doctor, in Eibenstock in the Ore Mountains. He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . From 1878 to 1881 he studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Leipzig and Göttingen . During his studies in Göttingen, he became a member of the Thuringia Academic Theological Association . After completing his studies, he found employment as a private tutor for a nobleman in Franconia. In 1883 he became pastor in Burkau and in 1889 archdeacon at the Lukaskirche in Dresden. After graduating as Lic. Theol. in 1892 (with the work Petrus Canisius, the first German Jesuit ) he was appointed extraordinary professor for practical theology at the University of Jena . In 1901 he received a full professorship at the University of Gießen , from where he moved to the University of Halle in 1908 .

In his studies he devoted himself above all to the history of the Reformation (editing Luther's disputations). He also did research on the history of the liturgy and Protestant church studies, which he established within practical theology. In his approach, he also took up impulses from the Christian social movement, distancing himself from the unhistorical ideas that other representatives had (e.g. Friedrich Naumann : Christ as the archetype of the social reformer). Drews was a co-founder of the ecclesiastical-religious magazine Die Christliche Welt and editor of the anthology of Evangelical Church Studies .

Today he is widely regarded as a pioneer of the sociology of religion and empirical theology.

Honors

1887: Honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Fonts (selection)

Petrus Canisius , the first German Jesuit , Halle 1892.
D. Martin Luther's disputations from 1535 to 1545 , Halle 1895/96.
Church life of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of the Kingdom of Saxony , Tübingen 1902.
On the genesis of the canon in the Roman mass , Tübingen 1902.
The Protestant clergyman in the German past , Jena 1905.
The problem of practical theology. At the same time a contribution to the reform of theological studies , Tübingen 1910.
Did the state church correspond to the ideal of Luther? , Tübingen 1911.

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Drews, Paul. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1382-1382. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Franz Lau : Drews, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 118 ( digitized version ).
Paul Drews . In: Udo Tworuschka: Trailblazers and classics . (UTB 3492). Cologne, Weimar and Vienna 2011, pp. 81–96.

Individual evidence

^ Report of the Thuringia. Akad-Theol. Connection to the Georgia Augusta in Göttingen. Summer semester 1907 - summer semester 1909. p. 15.

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Drews in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Paul Drews in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

personal data
SURNAME	Drews, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Drews, Paul Gottfried (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eibenstock
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1912
Place of death	Halle (Saale)

[1] Report of the Thuringia. Akad-Theol. Connection to the Georgia Augusta in Göttingen. Summer semester 1907 - summer semester 1909. p. 15.