Werner Bieder

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Werner Bieder (born July 21, 1911 in Basel ; † April 5, 1999 in Basel ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

Werner Bieder was the eldest son of the lawyer Ernst Bieder and his wife Nelly (née Niethammer).

He attended primary school in Basel and then the humanistic grammar school there (today: grammar school on Münsterplatz ), which he graduated from in the spring of 1930 with his Matura .

Due to the liberal and pietistic upbringing of his parents and grandparents, he decided to study theology and completed it from 1930 to 1934 at the University of Basel and at the University of Bonn , where he heard, among other things, the lectures of Karl Barth . After his vicariate at Pastor Lukas Christ in Pratteln had graduated, he became after his ordination on May 19, 1935 at the Basel Cathedral by Reverend Alphons Koechlin (1885-1965) by the municipality Oberhallau for pastors selected. He stayed there until 1941 and during this time dealt critically with National Socialism with his neighboring pastors Arthur Rich , Christian Maurer (1913–1992) and Hans Wildberger (1910–1986) . For the following fourteen years he was pastor in Glarus ; During this time, he followed a suggestion from Professor Fritz Blanke from Zurich and created the habilitation thesis The Presentation of Jesus Christ's Descent into Hell , thereby acquiring the venia legendi , so that at the beginning of the summer semester of 1948 he gave New Testament lectures at the University of Basel as a private lecturer . At the request of Walter Neidhart , he was elected head of studies for the Basel Mission in the fall of 1955 , so that he now held a dual position as practical theological teacher in the mission house and as a private lecturer at the university until 1971, and he understood how to continue to work in practical congregation work to be.

In the fall of 1957 his appointment was made as Associate Professor of the New Testament and from 1,957 to 19,776 for Mission Studies at the Theological Faculty of the University of Basel, but formed to continue in the mission house practically; in addition there were teaching and learning tasks in non-European colleges in Cameroon , Ghana , India and Korea . In various years he was also the main editor or staff member, first at the Evangelical Mission Magazine and later at the Zeitschrift für Mission, and published articles and reviews .

Werner Bieder was involved in the youth work of the Blue Cross , where he met his future wife Gertrud, daughter of the cheese maker Friedrich Bernhard; together they were married for over sixty years and had four children:

  • Maria Ursula Bieder (* 1936);
  • Peter Andreas Bieder (* 1939);
  • Anna Katharina Bieder (* 1942);
  • Johannes Markus Bieder (* 1945).

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Ekklesia and Polis in the New Testament and in the Old Church: at the same time an examination of Erik Peterson's concept of the church . Zurich: Zwingli, cop. 1941
  • The epistle of the Colossians . Zurich: Zwingli-Verlag, 1943.
  • Philomon's letter . Zurich: Zwingli-Verlag, 1944.
  • The idea of ​​Jesus Christ's journey into hell . Zurich: Zwingli-Verlag, 1949.
  • Reason and strength of the mission according to the 1st letter of Peter . Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelical publisher, 1950.
  • The Colossian Heresy and the Church of Today . Zollikon: Evangelischer Verlag, 1952.
  • The Acts of the Apostles in History: A Contribution to the Interpretative History of the Church's Mission Book . Zurich, 1960.
  • The calling in the New Testament . Zuerich: Zwingli Verlag, 1961.
  • The mystery of Christ and mission: a contribution to the missionary sacramental form of the Church . Zurich: EVZ-Verlag, 1964.
  • God's mission and the missionary mandate of the church according to Matthew, Luke, Paul and John . Zurich EVZ-Verlag, 1965.
  • The promise of baptism in the New Testament . Zurich: EVZ-Verlag, 1966.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Koechlin, Alphons. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Maurer, Christian. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wildberger, Hans. Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bieder, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bieder, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1999
Place of death Basel