Walther Eltester

Walther Eltester (born April 18, 1899 in Hohenlandin near Angermünde , † December 4, 1976 in Tübingen ) was a German Protestant theologian . His focus was church history and the New Testament .

Life

Walther Eltester attended high school in Potsdam, took part in the First World War as a volunteer from 1915 to 1918 and then studied Protestant theology at the universities of Jena and Berlin , where he obtained his licentiate in 1924. He then worked as a scientific assistant in the Church Fathers' Commission of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and as a lecturer in church history at the University of Berlin. In 1940 he was appointed professor and university lecturer, in 1945 as associate professor and in 1947 as full professor. From 1946 to 1949 he was dean of the theological faculty at Berlin University.

In 1949 Eltester moved to the University of Marburg , in 1955 as an associate professor at the University of Tübingen , where he was appointed full professor in 1956 and retired in 1966 .

Eltester was a specialist in early Christianity and its relationships with pagan philosophy and Judaism. He has written several monographs, essays and articles. During his time in Berlin he was one of the closest collaborators of the church historian Hans Lietzmann . He was one of the editors of the series of publications Texts and Studies on the History of Early Christian Literature .

literature

• Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Göttingen 2006. ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 . P. 70

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther Eltester in the catalog of the German National Library