Paul Ewald (theologian)

Paul Hermann August Ewald (born January 13, 1857 in Leipzig , † May 26, 1911 in Erlangen ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor .

Life

family

Paul Hermann August Ewald was the son of Gustav Ewald (1816-1884), co-founder and partner of the shoe factory and wholesaler Ewald und Bredt in Leipzig and his wife Emma (1818-77), daughter of the businessman Ferdinand Bredt, who came from an industrialist and merchant family in Elberfeld .

He was married to Katharina ( † 1925), daughter of the pharmacist Bernhard Löschke in Penig , since 1884 . Together they had a son and five daughters. Of these are known by name:

• Anna Ewald (1887–1976), married to the Romanist Julius Pirson ;
• Gottfried Ewald , Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Göttingen ;
• Veronika Ewald, married to Ferdinand August Karl Henrich (1871–1945), head of the department for inorganic and analytical chemistry at the Chemical Institute in Erlangen.

His brother-in-law was the archaeologist Georg Loeschcke .

education

He attended the Teichmann private school in Leipzig and then the St. Nikolai high school in Leipzig from 1869 to 1875.

From the summer semester of 1875 he studied theology at the University of Leipzig , moved to the University of Erlangen in the summer semester of 1876 and returned to Leipzig for the winter semester of 1877/1878. He passed his first theological exam on March 9, 1879 . From 1880 to 1882 he was at the Predigerseminar Prediger-Collegium zu St. Pauli in Leipzig; at the University of Leipzig he received his doctorate on November 30, 1881 with the title “The Influence of Stoic-Ciceronian Morals on the Representation of Ethics in Ambrosius”. phil. and became Licentiatus theol on December 2, 1882 ; in the same year he passed the second theological exam in Dresden .

career

He completed his habilitation with De vocis suneidēseōs apud scriptores novi testamenti vi ac potestate: commentatio et biblico-philologica et biblico-theologica at the University of Leipzig on February 20, 1883 as a private lecturer in dogmatics and New Testament exegesis .

On May 2, 1887 he was appointed associate professor and university preacher , on May 1, 1890, he was appointed full professor of New Testament theology at the University of Vienna , and four years later he was appointed professor of dogmatics and New Testament exegesis on August 1, 1894 Chair of the late Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank at the University of Erlangen.

In 1898, in addition to his professorship, he became a religion teacher at the town's daughter's school.

From 1908 to 1909 he temporarily administered the office of university preacher for the resigned Walter Caspari and then, as the successor to Theodor Zahn , devoted himself entirely to the New Testament (introductory sciences and New Testament exegesis), with two volumes in Zahn's commentary on the letters from captivity referring him to this of the Apostle Paul. But he also retained a lasting interest in questions of systematic theology , as especially his rectorate speech, on the occasion of his vice-rectorate from 1906 to 1907, About the Christian certainty of faith as the basis of a worldview from 1906, in which he showed, in contrast to all religious-historical derivation attempts , the faith awakened by the figure of Christ in the free grace of God to forgive as the great enigma of the history of religion, the great mystery of Christianity .

In the summer semester of 1910 he stopped teaching due to illness.

From 1901 to 1909 he was represented on the church council of Erlangen-Neustadt.

In earlier years he dealt with the Gospel question and wrote some smaller studies on it.

honors and awards

• On July 27, 1890 Paul Hermann August Ewald was the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig Dr. theol. hc
• He received the Order of Merit of St. Michael IV Class on January 1, 1908 .
• He was an honorary philistine with the Philadelphia fraternity.

Fonts (selection)

• The influence of the Stoic-Ciceronian morality on the representation of ethics in Ambrosius . 1881.
• De vocis suneidēseōs apud scriptores novi testamenti vi ac potestate: commentatio et biblico-philologica et biblico-theologica . 1883.
• The historical Christ in the Synoptic Gospels . Leipzig 1892.
• Main problems of the Gospel question . Leipzig 1893.
• The relationship between systematic theology and scriptural studies . 1895.
• Religion and christianity . Leipzig 1898.
• Who was jesus 1899.
• The Christian and Science . Leipzig 1903.
• Paul's letter to the Ephesians, Colossians, and Philemon . Leipzig 1905.
• The Christian certainty of faith as the basis of a worldview. Speech at the beginning of the Vice-Rector of the Royal Bavarian Friedrich-Alexanders-Universität Erlangen on November 3rd, 1906 . Erlangen 1906.
• Paul's letter to the Philippians . Leipzig 1908.
• From the Word of Life, 16 sermons . 1912.

Web links

• Paul Hermann August Ewald . In. Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig .

literature

• Paul Hermann August Ewald . In: The Professors and Lecturers of The Professors and Lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen 1743–1960 / Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg eV Part 1. Theological Faculty, Law Faculty (Erlanger Research: Special Series; Vol. 5), p. 20 f . Erlangen 1993. ISBN 3-922135-92-7.
• Strathmann, Hermann : Ewald, Paul in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), p. 697 online version .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ewald, Paul (1857-1911) [HistVV]. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .