Paul Wernle

Paul Wernle (born May 1, 1872 in Hottingen , today Zurich ; † April 12, 1939 in Basel ) was a Swiss Protestant theologian specializing in the New Testament and church history .

Paul Wernle

Live and act

During his studies in Göttingen , Wernle became a member of the Schwarzburgbund - Association of Burschenschaft Germania in 1894 . In 1900 he became an associate professor and in 1905 a full professor at the University of Basel . He taught recent church history, the history of dogma and the history of the Protestant concept of teaching as well as the New Testament as a minor. Josef Hromádka was one of his students . and Eduard Thurneysen . In 1916 he was rector . At the end of the winter semester 1927/1928 he was retired due to illness.

In 1906, Wernle was one of the co-founders of the magazine Neue Wegen, along with Benedikt Hartmann , Rudolf Liechtenhan and Leonhard Ragaz . He was also friends with the reformed pastor and religious socialist Fredy Sutermeister .

1903 awarded him the University of Marburg the honorary doctorate . In 1923 he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1925 the University of Basel awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Fonts (selection)

The beginnings of our religion. Tübingen / Leipzig 1901.
The sources of the life of Jesus. 2nd edition, Tübingen 1906.
(Ed.): From the papers of a pietist and enlightener. In: Basler Jahrbuch 1911, pp. 1–34.
Lessing and Christianity. Tubingen 1912.
Jesus. Tübingen 1917.
Swiss Protestantism in the XVIII. Century. 3 volumes, Tübingen 1923–1925.
Swiss Protestantism in the Helvetic period 1798–1803. 2 parts, Zurich / Leipzig 1938/1942.
To my friend Fritz Sutermeister . In: Kirchenblatt . tape 32 , no. 38 , 1917, ZDB ID 516795-4 .

literature

From five centuries of Swiss church history. Festschrift Paul Wernle. Basel 1932
Klaus-Gunther Wesseling : Wernle, Paul. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 873-879. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Thomas K. Kuhn : Theological-historical passions: Paul Wernle (1872-1939). In: In the field of tension between God and the world. Contributions to the past and present of the Frey-Grynaeisches Institut in Basel 1747–1997. Edited by Andreas Urs Sommer , Basel 1997, pp. 135–158.

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 148 No. 3482.
^ Dorothea Neumärker: Josef L. Hromádka. Theology and Politics in the Context of Current Events . Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-459-00907-1 , p. 36.

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Wernle in the catalog of the German National Library
Paul Wernle's estate in the Basel University Library
Thomas K. Kuhn: Paul Wernle. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Wernle on the website of the Basel rectors

personal data
SURNAME	Wernle, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 1, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hottingen
DATE OF DEATH	April 12, 1939
Place of death	Basel

[1] Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 148 No. 3482.

[2] Dorothea Neumärker: Josef L. Hromádka. Theology and Politics in the Context of Current Events . Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-459-00907-1 , p. 36.