Werner de Boor

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Werner de Boor (born April 24, 1899 in Breslau ; † March 18, 1976 in Schwerin ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian .

Life

De Boor came from an old family of scholars. His father was the Byzantinist Carl de Boor , his older brother the Germanist Helmut de Boor .

In 1909 the de Boor family moved to Marburg , where Werner also passed his Abitur . After brief participation in the First World War in 1917/18, he began studying natural sciences in Marburg , then Protestant theology , which he later continued in Tübingen and Erlangen . He completed his vicariate in Eisenach from 1922–24 . 1924–26 he was pastor in Bobeck ( Thuringia ), 1926–28 assistant at the theological faculty in Marburg ( doctorate in 1931), 1928–32 pastor in Kordeshagen ( Köslin district , Pomerania ), then until 1945 at the St. Johannis Castle Church in Stolp (Pomerania). From 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the Confessing Church and its Reich Brotherhood Council ; In 1937 he was one of the co-signers of the declaration of the 96 Protestant church leaders against Alfred Rosenberg because of his writing Protestant Rome Pilgrims . 1940/41 he worked temporarily as a war pastor in Norway .

After the collapse of National Socialism , de Boor became pastor in Lübenheen ( Mecklenburg ) in 1945 , in Wismar , and in 1946 in Rostock . In September 1946 he was appointed to the Department for People's Mission of the Schwerin Upper Church Council. In 1953 he resigned from the upper church council at his own request and became a free regional church evangelist . In 1956 he founded the fraternity for evangelism in the regional church of Mecklenburg , which he also led. He was also chairman of the GDR Evangelist Conference .

De Boor was close to Pietism and spoke regularly at the Blankenburg Alliance conferences. He became known through his work on the commentary series Wuppertal Study Bible , which he co-edited from 1962 and to which he contributed 10 volumes.

Fonts (selection)

  • Herder's epistemology in its meaning for his religious realism . Gütersloh 1929.
  • Our Creed: A Help for the Right Prayer of the Apostolic in the Church . Gütersloh 1941.
  • Basic lines of popular mission today . Berlin 1948.
  • Evangelism - Lutheran? Berlin 1953.
  • New church: Holy Spirit, fruit of the spirit, gifts of the spirit . Berlin 1957.
  • Paul's letters to the Philippians and to the Colossians . Wuppertal 1957.
  • Paul's letters to the Thessalonians . Wuppertal 1960.
  • Steps on the Way of Faith: Bible Studies according to Exodus 1–14 . Berlin 1960.
  • The way to peace with God: Bible testimony according to Romans . Berlin 1961.
  • Paul's letter to the Romans . Wuppertal 1962.
  • This is jesus . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1963 (4th revised edition 1985 under the title: So ist Jesus . ISBN 3-417-20328-7 )
  • The Acts of the Apostles . Wuppertal 1965.
  • Bible course on Romans (with the help of Dorothea Vogt). Berlin 1965.
  • This is how Jesus becomes church in the world: A walk through the first 13 chapters of the Acts of the Apostles . Berlin 1967.
  • Paul's first letter to the Corinthians . Wuppertal 1968.
  • The Gospel of John . 2 volumes. Wuppertal 1968/70.
  • Pietism and the Church . Bad Liebenzell 1970.
  • Paul's second letter to the Corinthians . Wuppertal 1972.
  • The letters of John . Wuppertal 1974.
  • The letters of Peter and the letter of Judas (with Uwe Holmer ). Wuppertal 1976.

literature

  • Fritz Hoffmann: Werner de Boor . In: Arno Pagel (ed.): They called to life. Verlag der Francke-Buchhandlung, Marburg 1977. pp. 141–149.
  • Manfred Schäller: On the 100th birthday of Werner de Boor . In: The Message 140 (1999), No. 4, p. 18.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze (Ed.): Ecumenical Yearbook 1936–1937 . Max Niehans, Zurich 1939, pp. 240–247.
personal data
SURNAME Boor, Werner de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1976
Place of death Schwerin , GDR