Walter Bauer (theologian)

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Walter Bauer

Walter Felix Bauer (born August 8, 1877 in Königsberg (Prussia) , † November 17, 1960 in Göttingen ) was a German theologian specializing in the New Testament and the Old Church . He is the creator of the Greek-German dictionary on the writings of the New Testament and the other early Christian literature , which is still a standard work that has been translated several times.

Life

Göttingen, Stadtfriedhof: grave of Professor Walter Bauer

As the son of a university professor, Bauer and his family moved to Marburg as a child , where he graduated from high school Philippinum in 1895 . He began studying theology at the Philipps University of Marburg and joined the Corps Hasso-Nassovia in 1896 . He later studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität Strasbourg . He completed his habilitation in Marburg in 1903 and became a professor in Breslau in 1913 and in Göttingen in 1916 , where he remained until his retirement in 1946. In 1925 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . When the Göttingen professors sent an address of allegiance to Adolf Hitler in 1933 , Walter Bauer and the mathematician Emmy Noether did not sign . He sat for the pardon of Dietrich Bonhoeffer one.

Bauer received his Lic. Theol. On May 6, 1902 at the University of Marburg . been awarded a doctorate. Then on February 28, 1903 his habilitation for the New Testament took place at the University of Marburg, in 1907 he received a private lecturer grant. From 1913 to 1914 he was associate professor of theology for the New Testament at the University of Breslau. On October 31, 1916 appointment as Dr. theol. hc of the University of Marburg, personal professor on May 23, 1919. He was also awarded a Dr. phil. hc excellent.

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Bauer researched early Christianity. His book Orthodoxy and Heresy in the oldest Christianity (Tübingen 1934) became very well known. In it he tries to prove that in many regions - for example in Egypt and Asia Minor - the Orthodox doctrine was not at the beginning of the Church, but rather Gnostic ideas dominated. In the course of the following centuries, however, the doctrines of the Roman Church finally prevailed, which designated their gradually developed doctrine as the original and stigmatized the original doctrines about later heretical deviations. This idea was only slowly able to establish itself. Bauer's book gained some influence until the 1960s, but since then Bauer's point of view has been considered insufficiently founded.

In addition to the commentary on John's writings, a further significant contribution by Bauer is above all the "Greek-German dictionary on the writings of the New Testament and other early Christian literature". Today it is a standard work for New Testament research worldwide and has been translated into other languages. The sixth edition was heavily revised and published in 1988 by Barbara and Kurt Aland .

Fonts

  • Mature and minors with the apostle Paul . Dissertation, University of Marburg 1902.
  • The apostolos of the Syrians in the period from the middle of the 4th century until the split in the Syrian Church . Ricker Verlag, Giessen 1903.
  • The life of Jesus in the age of the New Testament apocrypha . Scientific book club, Darmstadt 1967 (reprint of the Tübingen edition 1909).
  • Gospel of John 2nd ed. Mohr, Tübingen 1925 (Handbook for the New Testament; 6).
  • The Catholic Letters of the NT . Mohr, Tübingen 1910 (Religious history folk books for the German Christian present / 1; 20).
  • The Apostolic Fathers . Mohr, Tübingen 1923.
  • The Odes of Solomon . 1933
  • Georg Strecker (ed.): Orthodoxy and heresy in the oldest Christianity . 2nd edition JCB Mohr, Tübingen 1964 (contributions to historical theology; 10)
  • Kurt Aland , Barbara Aland (Ed.): Greek-German dictionary on the writings of the New Testament and early Christian literature . 6th, completely revised edition. DeGruyter, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-11-010647-7 (former title Greek-German dictionary on the writings of the New Testament and the other early Christian literature . (Ed. Alfred Töpelmann), 2nd edition (1928) on Erwin Preuschens : Complete Greek-German concise dictionary on the writings of the New Testament and other early Christian literature . 1., Giessen 1910).
  • Textbook of New Testament theology . 2nd, revised edition. Mohr, Tübingen 1911 (2 vol .; together with Adolf Jülicher and Heinrich Holtzmann ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronika, magazine of the former Marburg high school students
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 101 , 616
  3. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 33.
  4. ^ Marburg professor catalog online, single data set Bauer, Walter Felix. [1]
  5. ^ Alister McGrath : A Scientific Theology , Vol. 3: Theory . London 2003, p. 226f: “These ideas ... enjoyed at least a degree of acceptance within the scholarly community until as late as the 1960s. Today, Bauer's thesis looks decidedly shaky. "
  6. ↑ Contents: The teaching of the twelve apostles. the two letters to Clement , the letters of Ignatius of Antioch and the letter to Polycarp , the letter to Barnabas , the shepherd of Hermas
  7. ^ English translation: Robert A. Kraft, Gerhard Kroedel u. a. (Ed.): Orthodoxy and Heresy in earliest Christianity . Sigler Press, Mifflintown, PA 1996, ISBN 0-9623642-7-4 (reprinted from the Philadelphia 1971 edition).
    French translation: Christina Mimouni u. a. (Ed.): Orthodoxie et hérésie aux débuts du christianisme . Édition du Cerf, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-204-08516-8 .
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauer, Walter Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1960
Place of death Goettingen