Peter C. Bloth

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Peter C. Bloth (born June 11, 1931 in Verchen , Pomerania; † September 1, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Peter C. Bloth's tombstone in the Lichterfelde park cemetery

Bloth was a son of the theologian and historian Hugo Gotthard Bloth . After graduating from high school at the State Humanistic Gymnasium in Minden / Westphalia in 1951, he studied Protestant theology and German studies in Mainz, Erlangen and Münster. During this time he became a member of the Christian student associations Mainzer Wingolf and Erlanger Wingolf . He received his doctorate with a thesis on the Bremen school dispute. Between 1964 and 1967, Bloth completed his habilitation in practical theology at the newly founded Ruhr University in Bochum with the subject: "Religion in the schools of Prussia". In Bochum he then worked as a private lecturer and miner pastor. In 1971 he was appointed full professor at the Church University in Berlin . He was elected rector of the church college three times. In 1993 he received a chair for practical theology at the Humboldt University and became a university preacher there.

After his retirement he became a visiting professor at the University of Tartu (Estonia).

Bloth was a member of the synods in Berlin-Brandenburg, the EKU and the EKD . In 1973 he was co-founder and since 1990 board member of the Scientific Society for Theology .

Publications (selection)

  • Practical Theology , Stuttgart, 1994
  • On the way to a diaconal parish , Stuttgart 1986
  • Religious instruction in the Prussian public school , Bochum, 1967
  • The Bremen reform pedagogy in the dispute over d. Religious instruction , Dortmund 1961
  • The Bremen school dispute as a question to theology , Münster, 1959

Web links

Commons : Peter C. Bloth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Verband Alter Wingolfiten eV (Ed.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum , 17th edition, Lahr / Schwarzwald 1974, p. 98
  2. ^ In memoriam Peter C. Bloth by Peter Riegelmeyer in Wingolfsblätter 2012, 263 ff
personal data
SURNAME Bloth, Peter C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bloth, Peter Constantin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Verchen , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2012
Place of death Berlin