Richard Adolf Hoffmann

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Richard Adolf Hoffmann (born June 22, 1872 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † April 28, 1948 in Vienna ) was a German theologian and university professor .

Life

Hoffmann was the son of a master plumber and studied Protestant theology. He received his doctorate in theology on a subject in the New Testament . In 1897 he became a private lecturer and in 1907 he was appointed associate professor for the New Testament at the University of Königsberg . In 1915 he was offered a professorship at the University of Vienna , where he held the chair for the New Testament. Because he worked on early Christianity and parapsychology as his specialty, he was nicknamed "Geister-Hoffmann".

During the time of the corporate state he refused to join the Fatherland Front - that was an act of confession with disadvantages at the time. In 1938 he became a member of the NSDAP with the number 6,103,562 - that was considered a special honor, because the numbers beginning with 6.1 million were reserved for “illegals” in Austria. In his application he referred to the fact that he was a member of the Greater German Party and reported: "In dealings with the students, I never made a secret of my ethnic and National Socialist sentiments". During the processing of his application, an assessment was made that a. noted the following:

"He is an opponent of the Confessional Church ... According to the National Socialist Lecturer Association, Professor Dr. Hoffmann a real National Socialist who openly and fearlessly committed himself to National Socialism ”.

In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of Jewish Influence on German Church Life .

In 1939 he was retired because of the age limit he had reached, but continued to receive teaching assignments. After the end of the war he worked as an honorary professor .

Works

  • The sacrament thoughts of Jesus Christ. A biblical-theological attempt, 1896
  • What is Scientific Biblical Research ?, 1897
  • The Gospel of Mark and its sources. A contribution to the solution of the Urmarcus question, 1904
  • The self-consciousness of Jesus according to the first three Gospels, 1904
  • Kant and Swedenborg, 1909
  • The Redemption Thoughts of the Historical Christ, 1911
  • Property and Right in the Thought World of Early Christianity, in: Religion and Socialism. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Protestant theological faculty in Vienna, Berlin 1921
  • The mystery of the resurrection of Jesus, 1921
  • God's freedom. A religious-philosophical attempt, 1923 * Parapsychisches bei Paulus, in: Zschr. Für Parapsychologie, 1928
  • The emergence of Christianity, in: The religions of the earth, 1929
  • Jesus' image of God, 1934
  • Guidelines for a simple German Protestant creed, 1934, in: Deutsche Akademikerzeitung in Vienna of March 30, 1934
  • The New Testament Concept of Faith, 1938.

literature

  • Josef Bohatec: German-Austrian contribution to evangelical theological science. 1935
  • Bielitz: Richard Adolf Hoffmann. In: Neue Evangelische Kirchenzeitung 56, 1940, No. 6
  • Richard Adolf Hoffmann. In: Amt und Gemeinde 2, Vienna 1948, 68
  • Richard Adolf Hoffmann. In: Community bids for Evangelical-Lutheran Vienna 27, 1948
  • Gottfried Fitzer :  Hoffmann, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 436 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Rudolf Leeb : The Radical German Christians in Austria in the Light of New Sources. In: Yearbook for the History of Protestantism in Austria 124/125 (2008/2009) 39-101.
  • Sabine Taupe: Richard Adolf Hoffmann and his theology. Intellectual biography of a New Testament biblical scholar, parapsychologist and spiritualist as well as radical German Christians. Diploma thesis Univ. Vienna 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt / Main 2003, p. 265.
  2. ^ Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer : Viennese Evangelical Professors of Theology in the Mirror of the Gau-Akten. Documentation on Beth, Egli, Entz, Hajek, Hoffmann, Koch, Kühnert, Opitz, Schneider and Wilke , in: Yearbook for the History of Protestantism in Austria 116 (2000/01) 191-225, 205f and 222 there.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Richard Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ghost Hoffmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1948
Place of death Vienna