Wilhelm Bornemann (theologian)

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Wilhelm Bornemann (born March 2, 1858 in Lüneburg , † June 30, 1946 in Jugenheim ) was a German Protestant theologian.

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Bornemann came from a family of civil servants from Lüneburg. The father was a legally qualified senator of the city. After studying Protestant theology a . a. Bornemann completed his habilitation in Leipzig and Göttingen in 1884 at the University of Göttingen . After twelve years as an inspector of the education department of the monastery of Our Dear Women and preacher at the St. Marien monastery church in Magdeburg , he became full professor for church history and practical theology at the University of Basel in 1898 , pastor at St. Nicholas Church in Frankfurt am Main in 1902 and in 1906 Senior of the Ministry of Preachers . In 1922 he took on a part-time professorship for practical theology at the University of Frankfurt am Main .

Bornemann was a pupil of Adolf Harnack and belonged to the circle of friends around Martin Rade , Friedrich Loofs and Paul Drews , from which the magazine Die Christliche Welt emerged in 1887 . Bornemann is regarded as a representative of cultural Protestantism . He has also emerged as a poet of sacred songs. From him u. a. the hymn Lord, your holy will leads us into silence .

1895 awarded him the Theological Faculty of the University of Kiel , the honorary doctorate .

Works

  • In investiganda monachatus origine quibus de causis ratio habenda sit Originis , 1885.
  • The inadequacy of contemporary theological study. A word to lecturers, pastors and students . 1885, 2nd edition 1886.
  • Church ideals and church reforms. A contribution to the assessment of Hammerstein's motion . 1887.
  • Lessons in Christianity . 1891 (third edition: 1893).
  • Bitter truths. An unexpected illumination of the “Serious Thoughts” of Lieutenant Colonel von Egidy, 1891 (fifth edition: 1891).
  • To freedom and peace. Religious Speeches, 1893.
  • The dispute over the Apostolicum. Lecture, 1893 (third edition: 1893).
  • On the catechetical treatment of the first article in the Lutheran Catechism , 1893.
  • The second article in Luther's little catechism. Questions and suggestions (Booklets on the Christian World 10), 1893.
  • Religious doubts. Two sermons, 1893.
  • Christianity and ethical culture . 1897.
  • Christian perfection according to the catholic and evangelical conception. Lecture, 1897.
  • Melanchthon as a schoolboy. Speech given on February 16, 1897 in the auditorium of the pedagogy of the monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg, 1897.
  • Historical and practical theology . 1898.
  • The Allegory in Art, Science, and the Church, 1899.
  • Protestantism and women. A lecture, 1900.
  • The Bible and the Mission. Lecture, 1901.
  • Four tables on the history of the Basel Mission, 1902.
  • Pray and work. Sermons, 1904.
  • Confirmation instruction and religious instruction in school in their mutual relationship . 1907.
  • The Catholic Missions and Politics. Lecture, 1907.
  • The peace journey of German churchmen to England. Sketches for memory and reflection, 1908.
  • Jesus. Four lectures given in Frankfurt am Main, 1910.
  • Confucius . His personality and his basic beliefs according to the Lun Yü . 1912 (third edition: 1922).
  • Frankfurt am Main - a university without a theological faculty ?, 1913.
  • How does personal piety come about ?, 1914.
  • The origins of the Christian world, in: Hermann Mulert (ed.): Forty years of “Christian world”. Festgabe for Martin Rade on his 70th birthday, April 4, 1927, Gotha 1927, 4ff.
  • Cheerful pictures from life and time, undated [1932].

editor

  • Augustine's Confessions in a new translation and with an introduction (library of theological classics, vol. 12), 1888.

literature

  • Johannes Rathje: The world of free Protestantism. A contribution to the German-Protestant intellectual history. Depicted in the life and work of Martin Rade . Stuttgart 1952.
  • Gerd Lüdemann , Martin Schröder: The religious history school in Göttingen. A documentation . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-525-53582-1 , pp. 53-54.
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4

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personal data
SURNAME Bornemann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1946
Place of death Youth home