Wenzel Lohff

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Klaus-Wenzel Lohff (born November 5, 1925 in Bad Oeynhausen ; † January 14, 2016 ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

After serving in the Second World War, Lohff studied Protestant theology at the University of Erlangen from 1946 . There he was promoted to Dr. phil. and in 1954 due to a work on the criticism of religion from Karl Jaspers to Dr. theol. PhD. After completing his habilitation in systematic theology in Erlangen in 1958, he was appointed associate professor for religious education at the Munich-Pasing University of Education in 1959 . In 1963 he was appointed to the newly established chair with a focus on dogmatics at the University of Hamburg . In 1974 he moved to the University of Göttingen , but returned to Hamburg in 1976 to take over the post of senior pastor at St. Jacobi . In 1980 he was appointed rector of the Theological Study Seminar of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (VELKD) in Pullach near Munich. Retired in 1986, he spent the rest of his life in Kuden near Hamburg.

After leaving for Hamburg, he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Göttingen . In 1981 he also became an honorary professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

meaning

Lohff was the author of numerous specialist and popular science books. In addition, he was also involved in church and science policy. As a member of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany from 1971 to 1979, he campaigned for the Leuenberg Agreement of 1973, in the drafting of which he himself had taken a large part, and helped to overcome the partial resistance in German Lutheranism against its model of church fellowship . From 1973 to 1979 he was the founding chairman of the Scientific Society for Theology .

Fonts (selection)

  • Belief and freedom. The theological problem of the criticism of religion by Karl Jaspers. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1957.
  • How our life can succeed. The 10 Commandments. Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1970.
  • Doctrine and Education. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1974, ISBN 3-525-33355-2 .
  • Commitment to Peace. An interpretation of the Confessio Augustana . Lutheran publishing house, Hamburg 1980.
  • Arguments of confidence. Kreuz, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7831-0612-5 .
  • Fund of Faith. Approaches to the establishment of elementary knowledge of faith. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1986, ISBN 3-525-58147-5 ( digitized version ).
As editor
  • (with Lutz Mohaupt ) People's Church of the Future? Guidelines of the Augsburg Confession for Understanding the Church Today. Lutheran publishing house, Hamburg 1977.
  • (with Lewis W. Spitz) Discord, dialogue, and concord. Studies in the Lutheran Reformation's Formula of Concord. Fortress press, Philadelphia 1977.

literature

  • Renate Wittern (ed.): The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960. Part 1: Faculty of Theology. Faculty of Law (= Erlanger Research. Special Series, Vol. 5). Edited by Eva Wedel-Schaper, Christoph Hafner, Astrid Ley. University Association Erlangen-Nürnberg e. V., Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-922135-92-7 , p. 52 ( PDF; 836 kB ).
  • Friedrich Hauschildt : Sine vi, sed verbo . Leadership of the Church by the Word of God. Wenzel Lohff on his 80th birthday. Evangelical Publishing House, Leipzig 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To this especially Tuomo Mannermaa : From Prussia to Leuenberg. Background and development of the theological method of the Leuenberg Agreement (= work on the history and theology of Lutheranism. NF Vol. 1). Lutherisches Verlags-Haus, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-7859-0480-0 , pp. 54-102.
personal data
SURNAME Lohff, Wenzel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohff, Klaus-Wenzel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oeynhausen
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2016