Walther von Loewenich

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Walther von Loewenich (born March 3, 1903 in Nuremberg ; † January 3, 1992 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran church historian .

Life

Loewenich is the son of the lawyer Clemens von Loewenich (1860–1936) and Lina Heinlein (1873–1959). From 1922 he studied German, history, English, philosophy and theology in Erlangen , Tübingen , Göttingen and Münster . He got to know a number of well-known theological teachers (including Karl Barth , Karl Heim , Adolf Schlatter , Emanuel Hirsch ). In 1927 he passed the first exam and received his doctorate in 1928 under Paul Althaus with a thesis on Luther's theologia crucis . In 1931 he completed his habilitation in church history with the thesis "The understanding of John in the 2nd century".

During the Nazi era, Loewenich's path to a professorship was blocked; instead he worked from 1935 to 1945 as a teacher for Protestant religion at the teacher training college in Erlangen and was also a lecturer in church history. After the end of the war, Erlangen University appointed him professor for church and dogma history, denominational studies and Christian art in 1946, where he worked until his retirement in 1971. His student Karlmann Beyschlag was his successor. Other students were Dietrich Pirson , Eberhard Wölfel, Gottfried Maron and Bernhard Klaus .

In 1959 Loewenich received the Bavarian Order of Merit and in 1984 the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class . From 1959 he was a member of the Philosophical-Historical Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

His research focus was v. a. in Luther research; from 1964 to 1975 he was President of the Luther Society . Further areas of interest lay in patristicism , Roman Catholicism as well as New Protestantism and theological issues of the present.

Works

Technical work

  • Luther's theologia crucis , Munich 1929, 6 1982
  • The understanding of John in the 2nd century , 1932
  • Luther and Johannine Christianity , 1935
  • The History of the Church, Volumes I and II , Witten 1938
  • Paul , 1940
  • Luther as interpreter of the synoptics , 1954
  • Modern Catholicism , 1955
  • Faith, Church, Theology , 1958
  • From Augustine to Luther , 1959
  • Luther and Lessing , 1960
  • Luther and New Protestantism , 1963
  • Protestant Faith , 1964
  • Augustine , 1965
  • Modern Catholicism , Witten 1955, 8 1970
  • Martin Luther. The man and the factory , Munich 1982

Autobiographical

  • Experienced theology. Encounters, experiences, considerations , Munich 1979.

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personal data
SURNAME Loewenich, Walther von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran church historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1992