Rudolf Mau

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Rudolf Mau (born March 13, 1927 in Güstrow ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

From 1948 Mau studied Protestant theology in Halle , Greifswald and Basel. In 1954 he became an assistant to Rudolf Hermann at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1959 ( The concept of the need for salvation "necessarium ad salutem" and its justification in scholasticism in anticipation of Luther ) and qualified as a professor in 1964 . He was unable to obtain an appointment at a state university because in 1961 he refused to sign a declaration to justify the Berlin Wall . Instead, after the vicariate in 1965, he became a lecturer in church history at the Sprachenkonvikt , a church training center in East Berlin. In 1991 he was accepted as a professor at the theological faculty at Humboldt University. In 1992 he retired .

Mau initially emerged primarily as a Luther researcher. In his retirement he worked on the history of the Protestant churches in the GDR in several books. In 2014 he was awarded the Horst Dähn Prize of the Institute for Comparative State-Church Research .

Fonts (selection)

  • Luther's thought of the need for salvation (= theological work . Volume 26). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1969, OCLC 463089692 (also habilitation thesis, HU Berlin 1964).
  • with JF Gerhard Goeters (Ed.): The beginnings of the union under the sovereign church regime (1817-1850) (= The history of the Evangelical Church of the Union . Volume 1). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-374-01387-2 .
  • Integrated into real socialism? The Evangelical Church as a problem of the SED (= Vandenhoeck Collection ). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-01616-6 .
  • Evangelical Movement and Early Reformation (1521–1532) (= Church history in individual representations. 2 Late Middle Ages and Reformation . Volume 5). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-374-01795-9 .
  • Church history - a discipline of asking the truth. In: Dietrich Meyer (Ed.): Church history as an autobiography. Vol. 2 (= series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History 154). Cologne 2002, pp. 171–225.
  • Protestantism in East Germany (1945–1990) (= church history in individual representations. 4. Recent church history . Volume 3). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02319-3 .

literature

  • Matthias Köckert (Ed.): Committed to God's truth. Theological contributions from the Language Convict Berlin for Rudolf Mau . Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88981-061-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gert Haendler : Mecklenburg and the "Church history in individual representations". On the book by Rudolf Mau "Protestantism in East Germany 1945–1990" (Leipzig 2005). In: Ders .: Experienced Church History. Memories of churches and universities between Saxony and the Baltic States (= Rostock studies on university history, Volume 17). University of Rostock 2011, p. 209.
personal data
SURNAME Mau, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Guestrow