Wilhelm Holtmann

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Wilhelm Holtmann (born August 28, 1927 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † July 13, 2019 in Darmstadt ) was a German Evangelical Reformed pastor and theologian.

Holtmann was in 1959 at the Georg-August University of Göttingen to Dr. theol. PhD. In 1960 he became assistant preacher in Trier . From 1962 to 1975 he worked as a pastor in Hausen in the Hunsrück , then until 1992 as a school clerk for the Trier church district . He spent his retirement in Darmstadt.

From 1971 to 2001 Holtmann was a lecturer at the Institute for Protestant Theology at the University of Koblenz-Landau . From 2002 he taught as an honorary professor at the University of Trier . He wrote numerous publications on the history of the Reformed Church in Germany and was one of the editors of the Reformed Church Newspaper and the complete edition of the Reformed Confessions . From 1968 to 1992 he was a member of the regional synod of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

Holtmann founded the Caspar Olevian Society in 1992 and was its president until 2007. When he left, he was awarded the Caspar Olevian Prize.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Palatinate Irenik in the age of the Counter Reformation. Diss. Göttingen 1960.
  • Caspar Olevian - 1536 to 1587 - an Evangelical Reformed theologian from Trier. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1989.
  • Right and authority of a church reformed according to God's word. A contribution to an ecumenical conversation about the “Consensus fidelium”. Catholic Academy, Schwerte 1990.

As editor:

  • (with Gunther Franz, Horst Mühleisen :) Caspar Olevian 1536–1587. Evangelical Reformed theologian from Trier. Catalog of an exhibition of the Trier City Library (= exhibition catalogs Trier Library No. 14).
  • (with Gunther Franz, JF Gerhard Goeters :) Olevian, Caspar: Der Gnadenbund Gottes 1590. Facsimile edition with a comment. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data according to the obituary, which is printed in Jörg Schmidt's obituary (see web links); Place of birth according to the Caspar Olevian Prize awarded to Wilhelm Holtmann (message on the website of the Evangelical Church Community Trier); Place of death according to the obituary on the website of the University of Koblenz-Landau.
personal data
SURNAME Holtmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical reformed pastor and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH 13th July 2019
Place of death Darmstadt