Victor Hasler

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Victor Ernst Hasler (born August 2, 1920 in St. Gallen ; † July 21, 2003 in Niederuzwil ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

Victor Hasler was the son of the businessman Ernst Hasler.

He attended high school in St. Gallen and enrolled at the University of Lausanne in 1939 to begin studying theology. He continued his studies at the University of Zurich and the University of Basel until he finished it in 1948, interrupted by active service .

He was ordained on May 2, 1948, and in the same year he became pastor in Krummenau . From 1954 to 1958 he was pastor in Strengelbach , from 1958 to 1964 in Rorschach , based in Goldach and later in Solothurn .

In 1952 he received his doctorate from the University of Zurich. theol. In 1967 he completed his habilitation at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Bern and began teaching there in 1968, only part-time, and from 1973 full-time, as a professor of New Testament and pastoral psychology; from 1976 to 1977 he was dean of the Evangelical Theological Faculty. From 1980 until his retirement in 1989, he only taught the New Testament. In 1993 he finished his theological work and devoted himself to Toggenburg farmhouse architecture.

Victor Hasler was married to Henriette (née Schmid) since 1946.

Writing and theological work

Victor Hasler dealt with the pastoral letters as early as 1958 and wrote a commentary on them in 1978; on this he published numerous articles in specialist journals as well as articles in dictionaries and in 1993 the monograph The Liberated Woman at Paulus . He was theologically close to Rudolf Bultmann and Werner Georg Kümmel and emphasized the existential responsibility of liberal criticism.

Fonts (selection)

  • Law and Gospel in the ancient Church to Origen, an interpretative study. Gotthelf-Verlag, Zurich 1953.
  • Amen: Editorial history investigation into the introductory formula of the men's words «Truly I say to you». Gotthelf-Verlag, Zurich 1969.
  • The letters to Timothy and Titus (pastoral letters). Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1978.
  • The liberated woman with Paul: Perspectives and balance sheet. Theological Publishing House, Zurich 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Graf: Pastors of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of St. Gallen: 1971–2009 . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-290-17496-5 ( google.de [accessed on January 22, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Base de données sur les Élites suisses au XXe siècle. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Bernhard Mutschler: Faith in the pastoral letters: Pistis as the center of Christian existence . Mohr Siebeck, 2010, ISBN 978-3-16-150544-7 ( google.de [accessed on January 22, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Hasler, Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasler, Victor Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 2003
Place of death Niederuzwil