Peter Barth (theologian)

Peter Barth (born May 17, 1888 in Basel , † June 20, 1940 in Madiswil ) was a Swiss Reformed theologian.

family

Barth was a son of the theology professor Fritz Barth and his wife Anna Katharina Sartorius. From 1889 he grew up with his brothers, the later theologian Karl Barth (1886–1968) and the later philosopher Heinrich Barth (1890–1965) in Bern. On April 9, 1915, he married Helene Rade, a daughter of the theology professor Martin Rade . Her eldest son Martin Ulrich Barth (1916–1994) was Karl Barth's godchild. Another son was Friedrich Sebastian Barth (1918-2006).

Life

Barth studied from 1906 in Bern and from 1909 in Marburg, where he worked for Martin Rades Christian World . After a short stint at the Hamburg city mission , he became vicar in Adelboden and, in 1912, after his ordination by his father, pastor in Laupen . In 1918 he took over the pastor's position in Madiswil , which he held until his death. As President of the Theological Working Group of the Canton of Bern, he campaigned for the Confessing Church in Germany.

Barth was initially close to religious socialism , but joined the New Helvetic Society in 1915 . He later made a name for himself as a Calvin researcher. He has published a number of essays and was the editor of the Joannis Calvini Opera Selecta , a selected edition that was published by Christian Kaiser Verlag in Munich. For the first volume, which appeared in 1926, he received severe criticism, so that he secured Wilhelm Niesel's support for the following volumes .

The University of Marburg awarded Barth an honorary theological doctorate on October 11, 1931 .

Web links

Publications by and about Peter Barth (1888–1940) in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
Literature by and about Peter Barth in the catalog of the German National Library
Klauspeter Blaser : Barth, Peter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Directory of the estate in the State Archives of the Canton of Bern

Individual evidence

^ Eberhard Busch : Karl Barth's curriculum vitae. Kaiser, Munich 1975, p. 20 (ff.).
^ Karl Barth, Charlotte von Kirschbaum : Correspondence: 1925–1935. Theological Publishing House Zurich, 2008, p. 80.
^ Karl Dienst : Miniatures of a church history in Nassau (= Journal of Religious Culture / Journal for Religious Culture No. 165). Frankfurt am Main 2012, p. 145.

personal data
SURNAME	Barth, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Basel
DATE OF DEATH	June 20, 1940
Place of death	Madiswil

[1] Eberhard Busch : Karl Barth's curriculum vitae. Kaiser, Munich 1975, p. 20 (ff.).

[2] Karl Barth, Charlotte von Kirschbaum : Correspondence: 1925–1935. Theological Publishing House Zurich, 2008, p. 80.

[3] Karl Dienst : Miniatures of a church history in Nassau (= Journal of Religious Culture / Journal for Religious Culture No. 165). Frankfurt am Main 2012, p. 145.