Peter Meinhold
Peter Meinhold (born September 20, 1907 in Berlin ; † October 2, 1981 in Salzkotten ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian. He was a full professor for dogma and church history at the University of Kiel .
Life
Meinhold studied in Bethel and Berlin and received his licentiate as a theologian in 1934 . He was a student of Erich Seeberg . In 1935 he completed his habilitation in Berlin and was a private lecturer there. In 1935/36 he was a substitute professor at the University of Heidelberg and in 1936 he became an associate professor in Kiel. From 1939 he was a member of the NSDAP . During the Second World War he was a pastor in the Wehrmacht and after the war he was a full professor in Kiel until his retirement in 1975. From 1976 to 1981 he then worked at the Institute for European History in Mainz as head of the department for the history of religion and did research, for example, on ecumenism.
From the 1930s he dealt with Martin Luther . He attracted attention with the thesis of 1936 that the publications of Martin Luther's Genesis lecture, which stretched out over ten years from 1535 and occupied him in the last decade of his life, were not to be trusted. They are said to have been published by students who had represented interests in the directional struggles of Protestantism in the decades after Luther's death. Meinhold's book determined the preoccupation with this topic for decades.
In 1955 he received an honorary doctorate in Marburg.
From 1938 to 1955 he was co-editor of the magazine for church history .
Fonts
- Luther's Genesis Lecture and its editors , Kohlhammer 1936.
- Ecumenical Church Studies , 1962.
- History of Church Historiography , 2 volumes, Orbis academicus , Karl Alber Verlag 1967.
- Luther today: The work and theology of Martin Luther, the reformer of the church, in its significance for the present . Lutheran Publishing House, Berlin, Hamburg 1967.
- Luther's Philosophy of Language , Lutherisches Verlagshaus, Berlin 1958.
- As editor
- Claus Harms . Selected writings and sermons , edited by GE Hoffmann , Johann Schmidt , Fernando Wasner and Lorenz Hein, 2 vols., Flensburg 1955.
- Johann Hinrich Wichern : Works (10 volumes, 1962–1988).
literature
- Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949 , 2006
- Dietrich Blaufuss: Handbuch Deutscher Landeskirchengeschichte , Degener 1999
- Lorenz Hein: Peter Meinhold . In: Una Sancta , Volume 39, 1984, pp. 39-41
- Lorenz Hein (editor): The unity of the church: dimensions of its holiness, catholicity, etc. Apostolicity: Commemoration of Peter Meinhold's 70th birthday . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1977.
- Andreas Müller: Peter Meinhold: 1947 to 1976 (On the history of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History. Portrait sketches of the chairmen from 1896 to 2012) , in: Journal for Schleswig-Holstein Church History , Volume 2, 2015, page 16.
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Meinhold in the catalog of the German National Library
- Photo Peter Meinhold (1969)
- Peter Meinhold in the original sound in the online archive "Österreich am Wort" of the Austrian media library (Salzburg night studio)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sometimes also Kiel as the place of death. Here after entry in German biography, KG Saur
- ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 400
- ^ David Whitford, Review of John H. Maxfield Luther's Lectures on Genesis and the Formation of Evangelical Identity , Renaissance Quarterly 61, 2008, Project Muse
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meinhold, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and church historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd October 1981 |
| Place of death | Salzkotten |