Willibald Beyschlag

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Willibald Beyschlag
Grave of Willibald Beyschlag in the Laurentius cemetery in Halle (Saale) 2014

Johann Heinrich Christoph Willibald Beyschlag (born September 5, 1823 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 25, 1900 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian (from 1860 to 1900 full professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ) and influential church politicians.

Life

Beyschlag studied at the universities of Bonn - especially with Karl Immanuel Nitzsch , whose first biography he later wrote - and Berlin . During his studies in Bonn, he became a member of the Bonner Wingolf in 1841 . He was also a member of the cockchafer association. He moved to Berlin in the winter semester of 1841/1842. Together with Albrecht Wolters, who like him was a member of the Bonner Wingolf, he founded the branch Mau (Mau = cockchafer) in Berlin. From 1844 to 1849 he lived in Frankfurt am Main. From 1850 he worked as a Protestant pastor in Trier , a city dominated by Catholicism. He himself experienced numerous forms of discrimination against Protestants, such as the fact that they had to be buried in the suicide corner of the cemetery, which prompted him to write his first public writing. In it he wrote We love Catholics, but we hate Catholicism as the most elaborate and for that very reason the most powerful web of truth and lies, the kingdom of God and world principality that human history has ever produced . Beyschlag was then charged, but acquitted on appeal. After his time in Trier, he became court preacher to Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden in Karlsruhe in 1856 .

As a professor of practical theology in Halle, he regularly read about New Testament topics and dedicated many of his publications to them. Further publications were devoted to contemporary church history and current church issues. In terms of mediation theology , he tried to balance the critical positions, such as the two-source theory , and an uncritical biblicism . In 1866/67 and 1893/94 he was rector of the university, which he also represented in the Prussian mansion .

Beyschlag's greatest importance lies in his commitment to church politics. He criticized the Prussian church policy as too friendly to Catholicism and advocated a deepening of the union of Lutherans and Reformed people . From 1862 he was chairman of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein in the ecclesiastical province of Saxony , which supported Protestant communities in the diaspora . As a member of the Saxon Provincial Synod , he founded the Evangelical Association in 1873 as a "middle party" between liberals and neo-Orthodox. He headed this church party for a long time and published its magazine, the German Evangelical Papers , until his death . In 1886 he founded the Evangelical Union in Erfurt to protect German-Protestant interests (today the Evangelical Union ).

Beyschlag's grave is in the Laurentius cemetery in Halle.

Beyschlag was married to Maria Clemen from Lemgo from 1852. His children include Helene Beyschlag, married to the theologian Karl Hermann Pahncke , and the geologist Franz Beyschlag .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • From the life of an early completed man, the Protestant pastor Franz Wilhelm Traugott Beyschlag: a Christian life image from the present . Berlin: Rauh, 1858.
  • The Christology of the New Testament: a biblical-theological attempt . Berlin: Rauh, 1866.
  • The Pauline Theodices: Romans IX - XI; a contribution to biblical theology . Berlin: Rauh, 1868
  • Karl Immanuel Nitzsch: a shining light in recent German-Protestant church history . Berlin: Rauh, 1872.
  • On the Johannine question: Contributions to the appreciation of the fourth Gospel against the attacks of the critical school . Gotha: Perthes, 1876.
  • Paths of Knowledge to Christ: Selection of Academic Sermons . Berlin: Rauh, 1877.
  • On German-Christian education: collected popular theological lectures . Hall: Strien, 1880.
  • Old Catholicism: a memorial and protective pamphlet to Protestant Germany . Hall a. S .: Strien, 1882, 3rd edition 1883 ( download option ).
  • The life of Jesus . 2 vols., Halle: Strien, 1885/1886.
  • The Reformation in Italy . Barmen: H. Klein 1886.
  • Godofred: a fairy tale for the German house . Hall a. S .: Strien, 1888.
  • New Testament theology or historical presentation of the teachings of Jesus and early Christianity . 2 vols., Hall a. S .: Strien, 1891/92.
  • Out of my life . 2 vols., Hall a. S .: Strien, 1896/99.
  • Philipp Melanchthon and his part in the German Reformation: Festschrift for the 400th birthday of the reformer . Freiburg im Breisgau: Waetzel, 1897
  • Christian doctrine on the basis of the Small Lutheran Catechism: Auxiliary book for the teaching of confirmation lessons and for self-teaching by adults . Hall a. S .: Strien, 1900.
  • In memory of Willibald Beyschlag, b. Sept. 5, 1823, d. Nov. 25, 1900: A selection of his scientific articles . Jena: W. Gronau 1925.

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SURNAME Beyschlag, Willibald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beyschlag, Johann Heinrich Christoph Willibald (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1900
Place of death Hall