Theodor Brieger

Johann Friedrich Theodor Brieger (born June 4, 1842 in Greifswald , † June 9, 1915 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

The teacher's son Brieger studied at the Universities of Greifswald , Erlangen and Tuebingen trays Protestant theology and history . During his studies he became a member of the Christian student union Uttenruthia in the winter semester of 1862/63 . In 1865 he first took up a position as an assistant chaplain on the island of Rügen . Then he was a trainee teacher for teaching and passed the teaching examinations required for this. His most important teacher has been Hermann Reuter since his time in Greifswald, who was already teaching in Breslau at that time . In 1870 Brieger received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig with the dissertation " Gasparo Contarini and the Regensburg Concordarium Work of the Year 1541". phil. His first reviewer was the historian Georg Voigt . Brieger set up a seminar on church history at the theological faculty in Leipzig. Incidentally, Brieger was not the only theologian from Hermann Reuter's school in Breslau who received a doctorate in philosophy from Voigt in Leipzig. Another was Paul Tschackert , who already held a private theological lectureship there.

In the same year he obtained his theological licentiate (Lic. Theol.) At the University of Halle with the thesis "De Formulae Concordiae Ratisbonensis origine atque indole" and he was also qualified as a professor in the subject of church history . In 1873 he was appointed associate professor in Halle , who was then appointed full professor at the University of Marburg in 1876 . In 1886 Brieger accepted a call to the University of Leipzig. Unfortunately, his Leipzig personal file is no longer preserved, as the destruction caused by the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943 also affected the theological faculty . He became the successor of Karl Friedrich August Kahnis , who was already sick and on leave, and died a short time later . In 1892/1893 Brieger was rector of the University of Leipzig.

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Brieger mainly devoted himself to the history of the Reformation. He dealt only cursory with questions of humanism and the Renaissance that are connected with it. He published studies on "Aleander and Luther" (1884), "Die Torgauer Artikel" (1890), Luther's faith in its freedom from human authorities (1892), "The essence of indulgence at the end of the Middle Ages" (1897) and “On the history of the Augsburg Reichstag” (1903). In Ullstein's world history published by Julius von Pflugk-Harttung , he worked on the section on the age of the Reformation (1908). ( Karl Brandi edited the section on the Renaissance .) A somewhat expanded and illustrated special edition of this section appeared in 1914 under the title: The Reformation: a piece from Germany's world history . This title also indicates what significance the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther had for him . He saw the Reformation not only as part of German history, but also part of world history. For him, the modern age began with the Reformation . He wasn't the only one with the sight. However, even then there were other ideas about the beginning of the modern age or the modern age. In his book about the Reformation he played a. a. on Georg Voigt , perhaps also Jacob Burckhardt , who relocated the beginning of the modern age to the 14th century from Italy with the appearance of Francesco Petrarca , but without naming specific names.

As co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Church History (CCT) he gave since 1877 together with Albrecht Ritschl , William Gass and Hermann Reuter, together with Franz Dibelius , the contributions to the Saxon church history out. It should be noted here that the first reviewer of his doctoral thesis on Contarini Georg Voigt contributed an essay in the first year as a kind of start-up aid for the pressure corrector Walther in Wittenberg.

Awards

• Royal Saxon Order of Merit , Knight's Cross 1st Class
• Albrechts Order , Commander II class

literature

• Max Lenz , Theodor Brieger to the memory , in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 36 (1916), p. IX .; Bernhard Bess, Directory of Theodor Brieger's writings , in ibid. Pp. XI-XV.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Brieger, Theodor. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 748.

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1. ^ Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 13, No. 263.
2. ^ University archive Leipzig: Phil. Fac. PhD file 1120 Theodor Brieger. In this file he is listed as a candidate for the ministry. see. Mario Todte, Georg Voigt (1827–1891): Pioneer of Historical Research on Humanism, Leipzig 2004, p. 110, note 405.
3. ↑ Otto Kirn , The Leipzig Theological Faculty in Five Centuries 1409–1909 (Festschrift to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the University of Leipzig, published by the Rector and Senate), Vol. 1, Leipzig 1909, p. 219.
4. ↑ Leipzig University Archives: Phil. Fac. Prom. 3399 Paul Tschackert. According to the file, he was a lecturer in church history at the University of Wroclaw at the time. - Mario Todte, Georg Voigt (1827–1891): Pioneer of historical research on humanism, Leipzig 2004, p. 111, note 409 and p. 115 f.
5. ↑ http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/conf2/Braeuer-Siegfried-2002-09-08/HTML/braeuer-ch2.html

Web links

• Entry on Theodor Brieger in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• History of the University of Greifswald ( Memento from November 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Theodor Brieger in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of the courses of Theodor Brieger at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1886 to summer semester 1914)