Rudolf Baxmann

Rudolf Baxmann (actually Ernst Valentin Rudolf Baxmann ; born February 22, 1832 in Stendal ; † July 2, 1869 in Bonn ) was a Protestant theologian and author.

Life

Baxmann was born the son of a businessman. After attending grammar school in his hometown, he studied theology and philosophy in Berlin . He dealt with the works of Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , as well as with the critical works of Ferdinand Christian Baur . After completing his studies, he became a tutor in Thuringia for two years and in 1855 went to the preacher's seminary in Wittenberg , where he became pastor in 1857.

In Wittenberg he was significantly influenced by Karl Immanuel Nitzsch and Heinrich Eduard Schmieder . In 1861 he went to Lisbon as a deputy ministerial preacher and in 1862 he became a private lecturer, inspector of the Protestant monastery and religion teacher at the high school in Bonn. Shortly before his death in 1869, he was awarded the academic doctoral degree in theology from the University of Göttingen .

Works

• Phil. Melanchthonis epistulae tres . Wittenberg 1860
• Schleimacher's beginnings in writing. A historical sketch . Bonn 1864
• About the limits of Protestant freedom of teaching on pulpit u. Catheter . Bonn 1865;
• F. Schleiermacher. His life u. Work . Elberfeld 1868; (several editions)
• The policy of Popes Gregory I to Gregory VII . 2 volumes Elberfeld 1868/69 (compare Hermann Reuter in: Theological Studies and Critics 1871, page 184)

He has also written several individual articles. See ADB.

literature

• Adolf Kamphausen:  Baxmann, Ernst Valentin Rudolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 183 f.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  BAXMANN, Rudolf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 431.
• Otto Dibelius : The royal seminary at Wittenberg. 1817-1917 . Runge, Berlin-Lichterfelde 1917.