Philipp Bachmann

Philipp Georg Otto Bachmann (born October 13, 1864 in Geißlingen (now part of Oberickelsheim ), Uffenheim district , † March 18, 1931 in Erlangen ) was a German Lutheran theologian and educator.

After studying Protestant theology and philology in Erlangen and the first theological exam in Ansbach in 1887, Bachmann became a repetitionist for the New Testament at Erlangen University in 1888 . In 1890 he was given a pastor's post in Urfersheim , but in 1892 he went to Nuremberg as a high school professor . In 1902 he was appointed full professor for systematic theology in Erlangen and from 1909 also taught New Testament exegesis. From 1912 until his death he was also a university preacher.

Bachmann contributed to numerous volumes of Theodor Zahn's commentary series on the New Testament and wrote the commentaries on the two letters to the Corinthians himself . He also wrote textbooks for religious education and intervened in the struggle for religious education in the Weimar Republic through several publications .

From 1919 Bachmann represented his faculty in the regional synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and served as its president from 1924.

The University of Greifswald awarded Bachmann an honorary theological doctorate in 1905 . In 1911 he received the Order of Merit from St. Michael (4th grade) and in 1916 the King Ludwig Cross .

Fonts (selection)

• The Christian's personal experience of salvation and its significance for faith according to the testimony of the apostles: a contribution to New Testament theology . Leipzig: A. Deichert, 1899.
• The moral teaching of Jesus and their significance for the present . Leipzig: Deichert, 1904.
• Paul's first letter to the Corinthians . Leipzig: Deichert, 1905 (below).
• The significance of Christ's atoning death for the Christian conscience . Leipzig: Deichert, 1907.
• Paul's second letter to the Corinthians . Leipzig: Deichert, 1909.
• Outline of church history. For higher educational institutions . Leipzig: Deichert, 1912.
• Lessons in the Christian religion. For high. Schools . Leipzig: Deichert, 1918 (below).
• World of peoples and God's community. Sermons on Old Testament and New Testament texts . Leipzig; Dörffling & Franke; 1918.
• One people, one state, one school: an investigation into the school struggle of the present, in particular into the national significance of the community school and the denominational school . Langensalza: Beyer, 1922, 2nd edition 1928.
• The religious instruction of the school and the church . Langensalza: Beyer, 1924.
• But now I keep your word: selected sermons . Munich: Kaiser, 1932.

literature

• Hans Kressel : D. Philipp Bachmann. The preacher and the liturgy . Leipzig 1931.
• W. Vollrath: A theologian from Erlangen. Philipp Bachmann . In: Neue kirchliche Zeitschrift 42 (1931) pp. 455–475.
• Hermann Strathmann :  Bachmann, Philipp Georg Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 500 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Renate Wittern (Ed.): The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743-1960, part 1: Theological faculty. Law Faculty . Erlangen 1993, p. 6f ( PDF file ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Philipp Bachmann in the catalog of the German National Library