Richard Adelbert Lipsius

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Richard Adelbert Lipsius

Richard Adelbert Lipsius (born February 14, 1830 in Gera , † August 19, 1892 in Jena ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Richard Adelbert Lipsius came from a Protestant pastor's family: his great-grandfather was the pastor in Gießmannsdorf in Lower Lusatia, Magister Christian Gottlob Lipsius (1740–1810), his grandfather, Magister Adolf Gottfried Wilhelm Lipsius (-1841), was a pastor in Bernstadt. His parents were the later rector of the Thomas School in Leipzig Karl Heinrich Adelbert Lipsius and his wife Juliane Molly Rost († July 21, 1842 in Leipzig), daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost . The brothers Justus Hermann Lipsius and Johannes Wilhelm Konstantin Lipsius as well as the sister Ida Marie Lipsius also came from his parents' marriage .

After training in 1836 at the private school of Dr. Hander in Leipzig, as well as further training in the meantime with his grandfather in Bernstadt, he attended the Leipzig Thomas School from October 11, 1841. Under the direction of Johann Gottfried Stallbaum , Johann Christian Jahn and his father, he continued to develop his knowledge base. On May 13, 1848, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig to study theology.

Here were Johann Georg Benedikt Winer (born April 13, 1789 in Leipzig, † May 12, 1858 ibid.) Christian Wilhelm Niedner , August Ludwig Gottlob Krehl (born February 2, 1784 in Eisleben; † August 14, 1855 in Leipzig), Johann Christian Friedrich Tuch , Karl Gottfried Wilhelm Theile , Rudolph Angerer (born June 2, 1806 in Dresden, † October 10, 1866 in Bad Elster), Gustav Adolf Fricke and Karl Theodor Albert Liebner were his formative teachers. During his student days he also became a member of a Hermunduria fraternity . In 1851 he completed his theological candidate exam and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy in 1853 with the dissertation The Pauline Doctrine of Justification . This was followed in 1853 by the licentiate in theology and in 1855 the habilitation on the First Clems Letter ( De Clementis Romani epistola ad Corinthios priore disquisitio ) as a private lecturer . From 1856 he preached as an early preacher at the St. Pauli University Church in Leipzig. After receiving an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Jena in 1858 , he became an associate professor of theology in Leipzig in 1859 . From 1861 to 1865 Lipsius was a full professor of dogmatics at the University of Vienna , was appointed member of the Imperial and Royal Teaching Council in 1863 and represented the local theological faculty at the first Austrian general synod in 1864.

After he had taken part in the development of a liberal church constitution in Vienna and had campaigned against the compulsory study there, he accepted an appointment as professor for systematic theology at the University of Kiel in 1865 . After he was restricted by various measures in Kiel, he moved to the University of Jena in 1871 as professor of New Testament exegesis and systematic theology . He also worked in the summer semester of 1877 as rector of the alma mater in the organizational tasks of the Salana, was director of the theological seminary and received the title of a secret church council. He was a representative of the philosophy of religion and historical theology . In 1875 he was co-editor of the yearbooks for Protestant theology and in 1886 of the theological annual report . In 1886 he founded the Evangelical Union and in 1884 the General Evangelical-Protestant Mission Association. He was a member of the Gustav Adolf Association, chairman of the examination committee for candidates for the higher education authority, member of the board of the Luther Festival Association and, in 1877, chairman of the Association for Thuringian History and Classical Studies .

His son Friedrich Reinhard Lipsius , who became a professor of philosophy , comes from his marriage in Leipzig with Laura Parchwitz (* Breslau) .

Fonts

  • The Pauline doctrine of justification, taking into account some related doctrinal pieces, presented in the four main letters of the apostle. Leipzig, 1853 ( online )
  • De Clementis Romani epistola ad Corinthos priore disquisitio. Leipzig, 1855: ( Online )
  • On the authenticity of the Syrian review of the Ignatian letters. 1856
  • On the relation of the text of the three Syrian letters of Ignatius to the other reviews of Ignatian literature. Leipzig, 1859 ( online )
  • Gnosticism, its essence, origin and development. 1860
  • Sermon on Romans 13: 11-14. 1861
  • On the source criticism of Epiphany. Vienna, 1865 ( online )
  • The Easter message is a message of peace. Sermon on Apotelgeschischte 10, v. 34-41 held on Easter Monday in the Nicolaikirche in Kiel. Kiel, 1866
  • The papal registers of Eusebius and the chroniclers who depend on him. 1868
  • Chronology of the Roman bishops up to the middle of the fourth century. Kiel 1869 ( online )
  • Belief and teaching. Theological pamphlets. Kiel and Harderleben, 1871 ( online )
  • The Pilate files. Critically examined. Kiel 1871 ( online )
  • About belief and knowledge. 1871, Berlin 1897
  • The sources of the Roman legend of Peter, critically examined. Kiel 1872 ( online )
  • About the origin and oldest use of the Christian name. Jena 1873 ( online )
  • About the question of confession. 1873
  • The Simon legend. 1874
  • The sources of the oldest heretic history. 1874 ( online , further digitized version )
  • Textbook of Evangelical-Protestant dogmatics. 1876, Braunschweig 1879, 1892, 1893
  • Schleiermacher and Romanticism. 1876
  • The idea of ​​God. 1877
  • Dogmatic contributions to the defense and explanation of my textbook. Leipzig 1878
  • The divine world government. A presentation. 1878
  • The end of the culture war. 1878
  • The Edessen Abgarsage, critically examined. 1880 ( online , further digitized version )
  • The ultimate reasons for religious certainty. A presentation. 1880
  • The Significance of the Historical in Christianity. 1881
  • The apocryphal stories and legends of the Apostles. A contribution to the early Christian literary history, first volume. 1883 ( online )
  • The apocryphal stories and legends of the Apostles. Second volume, first half. 1894 ( online )
  • The apocryphal stories and legends of the Apostles. Second volume, second half. 1884 [2]
  • Philosophy and religion. New contributions to the scientific foundation of dogmatics. 1885
  • Ten years of Prussian-German church policy. 1887
  • In what form should we bring the gospel to pagan civilized peoples? 1887
  • Ritschl's theology. Lecture at the Thuringian Church Congress in Hildburghausen. Leipzig 1888
  • The main points of Christian doctrine, shown in outline. Braunschweig 1889
  • Our common ground of faith in the fight against Rome. 1889
  • The apocryphal stories and legends of the Apostles. Supplementary booklet. 1890 ( online )
  • Acta apostolorum apocrypha. 1891 ( Online ; partis alterius volumen prius Online )
  • Hand Commentary on the NT, edited by Holtzmann, Lipsius, Schmiedel, von Soden. Second volume, second section: The letters to the Galatians, Romans, Philippians. 1891
  • Luther's Doctrine of Repentance. Braunschweig 1892

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philipp David: Challenge of the historical exegesis and liberal theology with Richard Adelbert Lipsius (1830-1892). In: Felix John, Swantje Rinker (Ed.): Exegese in their time. Interpreter of New Testament texts portraits, compiled on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN ISBN 978-3-374-04170-1 , pp. 9-29, ( [1] on eva-leipzig.de), here pp. 9 f.
personal data
SURNAME Lipsius, Richard Adelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1892
Place of death Jena