Philipp Vielhauer

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Philipp Vielhauer (born December 3, 1914 in Bali , Cameroon , † December 23, 1977 in Bonn ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university professor.

Life

Philipp Adam Christoph Vielhauer was the son of Gustav Adolf Vielhauer and his wife April († 1925 in Cameroon). The parents lived as a missionary couple from the Basel Mission in Cameroon, and the father had been living there since the 1890s.

Philipp Vielhauer was ordained on June 11, 1936 in the Lutherhaus in Karlsruhe-Durlach . Vielhauer had already become a member of the Confessing Church during his studies . He therefore refused to fill out a "civil servant questionnaire for church workers", which was also required for the church by the law for the restoration of the professional civil service , and to sign a declaration of loyalty to the National Socialist state. For this reason, the finance department of the Badische Kirche rejected his employment in the church service - despite his very good professional performance - for "political reasons". However, he found a job in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg , where he held a pastor's post in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim from 1935 to 1941 . In 1939 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg . In 1941 he was drafted into military service and seriously wounded in Toropets (Russia) in 1944.

Vielhauer taught from 1947 to 1949 at the University of Göttingen , where he completed his habilitation in 1950 , and from 1950 until his death in 1977 as a professor at the University of Bonn .

Services

Vielhauer was a recognized expert in the field of early Christian literature and the New Testament Apocrypha. As a student of Martin Dibelius , he brought together the history of form and the history of religion in his exegetical work . He discovered traces of Paul's letters in the Acts of the Apostles .

Vielhauer is a teacher of Gerd Theißen .

Publications

  • Oikodome. Essays on the New Testament II, ed. v. Günter Klein . Kaiser, Munich 1979.
  • History of early Christian literature. de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 1975 (standard work, four editions until 1985)
  • The forerunner. Shape and meaning of the eschatological trailblazer in the New Testament and in its environment. (1950)
  • Essays on the New Testament. Ch. Kaiser, Munich

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Theißen: Arguments for a critical belief. Munich 1978, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Vielhauer, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vielhauer, Philipp Adam Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bali , Cameroon
DATE OF DEATH 23rd December 1977
Place of death Bonn