Wilhelm Baldensperger

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Wilhelm Baldensperger (also: Guilleaume Baldensperger ; * December 12, 1856 in Mulhouse , † July 30, 1936 in Strasbourg ) was a Franco-German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the Mülhausen factory owner Philipp Baldensprenger and his wife Wilhelmine Franck studied theological art history and linguistics at the University of Strasbourg with Eduard Reuss and Heinrich Julius Holtzmann in 1875/76 , from 1876 to 1878 at the University of Göttingen with Albrecht Ritschl and at the University of Paris . During his studies in Göttingen, he became a member of the Thuringia Academic Theological Association . In 1880 he was parish administrator in the church of Alt St. Peter in Strasbourg, in 1881 he moved to Paris to work for the Journal du Protestantisme français , where he also took on the post of assistant pastor from 1882 to 1884. In 1886 he had the parish administrator transferred to Mundolsheim , in 1887 he was parish vicar at the new church in Strasbourg and in 1887 obtained a licentiate in theology at the local university. In 1890 he completed his habilitation in Strasbourg for the New Testament and systematic theology. In the same year he went to the University of Giessen as an associate professor for New Testament theology , where he was appointed full professor in 1892.

Baldensperger, who in 1892 received the Dr. hc of theology was awarded by the University of Strasbourg, had also been involved as dean of the Giessen University and had been appointed to the church council in 1908. Dismayed by the outbreak of World War I, he resigned his professorship in Giessen and retired in 1915.

He then stayed in Switzerland at the University of Lausanne , where he received an honorary doctorate and from then on used his French name derivative. In 1919 he received a professorship for the New Testament at the University of Strasbourg. Baldensperger had worked on the Braunschweiger Calvin edition and worked out Reuss's biblical work. He also appeared as an author in the Revue de théologie et de philosophie , the magazine for theology and church , the Theologische Rundschau , the Theologische Literaturzeitung and the Deutsche Litteraturzeitung .

Baldensperger married Juliette Jaegle on October 13, 1893.

Selection of works

  • Jesus' self-confidence in the light of the messianic hope of his time. 1888, 1892, 1903
  • L'influence du dilettantisme artistique sur la morale et la religion. 1890
  • Karl August Credner , his life and his theology. Leipzig 1897, 2010
  • The prologue of the 4th Gospel. 1898
  • Later Judaism as a preliminary stage to Christianity. 1900
  • Early Christian apology. Strasbourg 1909

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report of the Thuringia. Akad-Theol. Connection to the Georgia Augusta in Göttingen. Summer semester 1907 - summer semester 1909. p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Baldensperger, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baldensperger, Guilleaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1936
Place of death Strasbourg