Wilhelm Lotz (theologian)
Wilhelm Philipp Friedrich Ferdinand Lotz (born April 12, 1853 in Kassel , † December 30, 1928 in Erlangen ) was a German Protestant theologian and professor in Vienna and Erlangen.
Life
Lotz studied theology at the Universities of Leipzig and Göttingen . There he became a member of the Leipziger and Göttingen Wingolf . In 1880 he received his doctorate. phil in Leipzig. He completed his habilitation there in 1883 as Lic. Theol. with the work Quaestionum de historia sabbati libri duo . As the successor to Georg Gustav Roskoff , he came to the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Vienna in 1884 as an associate professor for Old Testament exegesis and biblical archeology. He still seemed too young for an ordinariate. However, in December 1885 he was appointed full professor. In 1897 he was appointed to Erlangen. In 1925 he retired. His successor was Otto Procksch (1874–1947).
Fonts (selection)
- History and Revelation in the Old Testament , 1891, 2nd ed. 1892.
- The Ark of the Covenant , 1901.
- The Sinai League , in: New Church Journal 12–15, 1901–04.
- The Old Testament and Science. Deichert, Leipzig 1905.
- Biblical prehistory , 1907.
- Johann Jakob Herzog : Realencyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church , Volume 23, 1913, contributions by Wilhelm Lotz, p. 341, p. 698.
- Hebrew Linguistics , 1908, 3rd ed. 1920.
- Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (= Biblical Questions of Time and Disputes, Ser. 5, No. 10). 1910.
literature
- Karl Schwarz, Falk Wagner : Change of Times and Persistence: Contributions to the History of the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Vienna 1821-1996 (series of publications of the University Archives ), Vienna 1997.
- Karlmann Beyschlag : The Erlangen theology . Erlangen 1993.
- Professors' almanac of the Kgl. Bayer. Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen, 1894
- Religion in the past and present , 2nd ed., Ed. by Hermann Gunkel and Leopold Zscharnack , Vol. 3, 1929
- Theodor Kolde : The University of Erlangen. 1910, pp. 485, 531.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007, p. 33.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lotz, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lotz, Wilhelm Philipp Friedrich Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1853 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1928 |
| Place of death | gain |