Victor Schultze

Victor Schultze (born December 13, 1851 in Fürstenberg , Principality of Waldeck , † January 6, 1937 in Greifswald ) was a German theologian, church historian and Christian archaeologist .

Life

Victor Schultze was the youngest of seven children in a pastor family based in the Principality of Waldeck . He began to study art history and Protestant theology at the University of Basel . In 1873 he became a member of the Corps Alamannia Basel. As an inactive , he moved to the University of Jena and the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . In 1877 he went to Rome for three years as a travel grant from the German Archaeological Institute . In 1879 he received his doctorate from Leipzig University as Dr. theol. He taught in Leipzig until 1883 and in 1883 followed the call of the University of Greifswald to the chair of Christian archeology and church history . In 1895 he was rector of the university. From 1907 he was an honorary member of the Greifswalder Wingolf. He was a member of the Lutheran Conference in Greifswald . After 37 years as a professor , he retired in 1920 . For many years he headed the history association for Waldeck and Pyrmont . He was the father-in-law of the archaeologist and building researcher Armin von Gerkan (1884–1969).

Schultze was the founder and pioneer of Christian archeology as a science and an independent subject in Protestant theology. He saw the importance of this subject not only in an art-historical interpretation of early Christian and medieval works of art. Rather, these should be recorded as sources of church history using the methods of classical archeology. This was a new approach insofar as church history has hitherto been practiced largely only as a history of dogmas and relied solely on the literary-liturgical sources available for it. On the other hand, through his studies he developed the meaning and meaning that the early Christian sculptures and monuments, which had to be understood from their time, were attributed to Christian intellectual history. In particular, his research focused on the Christian catacombs and the decorations found in them. In addition to his works related to ancient Christian art, "Katakomben-Schultze" dealt extensively with the Reformation .

Honors

• D. theol. hc from the University of Dorpat
• Dr. phil. hc from the University of Athens
• Dr. phil. hc from the University of Greifswald
• Honorary member of the Lausitzer Preacher Society in Leipzig (1884)

Publications

• Archaeological studies of early Christian monuments. Braumüller, Vienna 1880, ( digitized version ).
• The catacombs. The early Christian tombs, their history and their monuments. Veit, Leipzig 1882, ( digitized version ).
• as editor with Oskar Mothes : The Protestant Church Building. A guide for clergy and friends of church art. Böhme, Leipzig 1886, ( digitized version ).
• History of the fall of Greco-Roman paganism , Jena, 1887
• Archeology of early Christian art. Beck, Munich 1895, ( digitized version ).
• Waldeck Reformation history. Deichert, Leipzig 1903, ( digitized version ).
• Old Christian cities and landscapes. 3 (in 4) volumes (Vol. 1: Constantinople (324-450). Vol. 2, 1-2: Asia Minor. Vol. 3: Antiocheia. ). Deichert et al., Leipzig et al. 1913–1930.
• Plan of the Christian Archeology Beck, Munich 1919, (2nd, revised edition. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1934).

See also

• Swiss student associations # Corps
• List of corps student rectors

literature

• Klaus Wessel : Victor Schultze. In: Festschrift for the 500th anniversary of the University of Greifswald, October 17, 1956. Volume 2. Verlag der Volksstimme, Greifswald 1956, pp. 63–68.

Web links

Wikisource: Victor Schultze  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Victor Schultze in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Victor Schultze in the state bibliography MV
• Writings by and about Victor Schultze at the SB Berlin PK
• Overview of Victor Schultze's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1879 to winter semester 1883)
• To the Victor Schultze collection at the University of Greifswald

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists in 1910, 1/35.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Schultze, Viktor in BBKL.
3. ↑ Complete directory of Wingolf, Lichtenberg 1991
4. ↑ Heinz Boberach, Carsten Nicolaisen, Ruth Pabst (eds.): Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949. Organs - offices - associations - people . tape 1 : Supraregional institutions. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, p. 283 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Eduard Koschwitz	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1895	Paul Grawitz