Rudolf Stähelin-Stockmeyer

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Rudolf Stähelin-Stockmeyer (born September 22, 1841 in Basel ; † March 13, 1900 there ) was a Swiss mediation theologian .

life and work

Rudolf Stähelin-Stockmeyer (1841–1900), professor of theology, rector at the university. Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel. Family grave: Stähelin-Clemens-Stockmayer-Kracht-Kober-Pfeifer-Schwabe-Jucker.
Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

Rudolf Stähelin, son of a businessman, did historical and philological studies in Basel and Lausanne after graduating from high school. From 1860 he studied theology in Basel, Berlin and Tübingen. In 1865 he passed the final exam and was ordained. From 1865 to 1866 he worked as a teacher at the Protestant school in Schiers and from 1866 to 1867 as a vicar in Stein am Rhein . 1867–1872 he was pastor in Arlesheim .

In 1873 he completed his habilitation at the University of Basel . From 1874 he was associate professor of church history at the University of Basel, from 1875 full professor, where he was rector in 1883 . He sought “the balance between scientific reason and Christian faith” and wrote a two-volume standard work on Ulrich Zwingli .

In Stähelin's theological work, with his endeavors to bring about the kingdom of God, pietistic motifs have also condensed. As the successor to Emil Kautzsch, he was lecturer at the Frey-Grynaeisches Institute in Basel.

Stähelin was married to Agnes Maria (* 1849 in Basel; † 1942), daughter of the Basel clergyman Immanuel Stockmeyer . Her children included the writer Maria Margaretha Stähelin (1870–1959), the physician Rudolf Staehelin and the lawyer Max Stähelin-Maeglin ; her son-in-law was the publisher Alfred Kober .

literature

  • Rudolf Stähelin-Stockmeyer: In memory of Professor Rudolf Staehelin-Stockmeyer, Dr. theol. et phil., born September 22, 1841, died March 13, 1900. Basler Druck- und Verlags-Anstalt, Basel 1900.
  • Thomas K. Kuhn : Stähelin, Rudolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Andreas Urs Sommer : The Pathos of Duty in the Outlook of the Kingdom of God: Rudolf Stähelin (1841–1900) . In the S. (Ed.): In the field of tension between God and the world. Contributions to the past and present of the Frey-Grynaeisches Institut . Basel 1997, pp. 123-133.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas K. Kuhn: Stähelin, Rudolf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Staehelin-Stockmeyer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1900
Place of death Basel