George Huntston Williams

George Huntston Williams ( George Hunston Williams, born April 7, 1914 in Huntsburg, Ohio; † 6 October 2000) was one of the most important Unitarian theologian of the 20th century.

Life and work

George Williams was a professor of Unitarian theology at the Divinity School of Harvard University. He has emerged particularly by his historical works. In addition to a history of the Divinity School (1954 ), which was founded in 1826 by Unitarian theologian and later one of the world's most famous theologian schools was, Williams wrote, especially the history of the so-called Radical Reformation and the history of the Polish brothers who described themselves as Socinians. Williams thus became the major catalogers of the Radical Reformation and the performer of the great Unitarian influence on the Euro-American intellectual and cultural history.

In 1985, George H. Williams, at the invitation of the German Unitarians to the first German academic conference on Unitarismusforschung to Hamburg, where he gave a lecture on " differences between the Polish and Hungarian Transylvanian Unitarianism and its causes ."

Works

  • The Polish Brethren: Documentation of the History and Thought of Unitarianism in the Polish - Lithuanian Commonwealth and in the Diaspora 1601-1685, Scholars Press, 1980, ISBN 0-89130-343- X.
  • The Radical Reformation, ISBN 0940474158th
  • Differences between the Polish and Transylvanian Hungarian Unitarianism and its causes, in: Wolfgang Deppert / Werner Erdt / Aart de Groot (Ed.): The influence of the Unitarians to the European-American intellectual history, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / Bern / New York / Paris, 1990, ISSN 0930-4118, ISBN 3-631-41859-0, pp. 33-57.
  • Unitarian theologian
  • University teachers (Harvard University)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 2000
  • Man
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