Wilhelm Maurer (theologian)

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Wilhelm Maurer (born May 7, 1900 in Kassel , † January 30, 1982 in Erlangen ) was a German Protestant church historian.

Life

Maurer, a son of the later Chief Postal Secretary Christian Conrad Maurer (1872-1948), grew up in Melsungen. He studied Protestant theology at the Philipps University of Marburg , especially with Heinrich Hermelink , and in 1924 became a repetiteur at the Hessian Scholarship Institute there . In 1926 he was awarded a Lic. Theol. PhD; In 1928 the habilitation for church history followed (both works were published together in 1930 under the title Enlightenment, Idealism and Restoration ). In addition to his work as a private lecturer, he worked as a parish priest, since 1926 in Michelbach , 1937-49 in Caldern . As a member of the Confessing Church , an academic career was initially closed to him; it was not until 1949 that he was appointed associate professor in Marburg. In 1949 he took over the post of provost in the district of Upper Hesse and Schmalkalden (based in Marburg). In 1951 he accepted the chair for Reformation History at the University of Erlangen , which he held until his retirement in 1967.

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During his time in Marburg, the Hessian church history was Maurer's research focus. In Erlangen he turned to the history of the Reformation and emphasized Martin Luther's roots in the early church Christology. He dedicated an extensive biography and his late work to Philipp Melanchthon , a commentary on the Confessio Augustana . Another focus were questions of canon law, in particular the relationship between the church office and the general priesthood and questions of episcopal and synodal church leadership. As a specialist advisor for the history of the Reformation, he was in charge of the 3rd edition of the lexicon The Religion in Past and Present (1957–61). His students include Gerhard Müller , Ernst Wilhelm Kohls and Gottfried Seebaß .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • August Vilmar and Wilhelm Löhe . Stauda, ​​Kassel 1938.
  • Congregational discipline, civic office, confirmation. A Hessian secular memory . Stauda, ​​Kassel 1940.
  • Church and synagogue. Motives and forms of the confrontation of the church with Judaism in the course of history . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1953.
  • The synodal evangelical bishopric since 1918 . Lutheran Publishing House, Berlin 1955.
  • Confession status and development in Hesse . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1955.
  • Parish law and confession . Lutheran publishing house Renner, Berlin 1957.
  • Melanchthon Studies . Gütersloh publishing house G. Mohn, Gütersloh 1964.
  • The young Melanchthon between humanism and the Reformation . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen
    • Vol. 1: The humanist . 1967
    • Vol. 2: The theologian . 1969.
  • Church and History. Collected essays . 2 vols., Ed. v. Ernst Wilhelm Kohls a. Gerhard Müller, 1970.
  • The Church and its Law. Collected essays on Protestant church law . Edited by Gerhard Müller u. Gottfried Seebass. 1976.
  • Historical commentary on the Confessio Augustana . Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 1976/78.
    • Historical commentary on the Augsburg Confession . Fortress Press, Philadelphia 1986.

literature

  • Ernst Wilhelm Kohls: The Holy Spirit creates justice in the church. The foundation of Protestant church law in Wilhelm Maurer . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History 62, 1976, pp. 347–66.
  • Rudolf Keller:  Wilhelm Maurer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 442-444 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see City Archives Kassel: Standesamt Kassel I Birth Register 1900 Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 910 No. 143, p. 288 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Maurer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1982
Place of death gain