Otto Ritschl
Otto Karl Albrecht Ritschl ( born June 26, 1860 in Bonn, † September 28, 1944 ) was a German Protestant theologian. Ritschl worked at the Universities of Halle, Kiel and Bonn.
Life
Otto Ritschl was born on 26 June 1860 in Bonn, the eldest of three children of Protestant theologian Albrecht Ritschl and his wife Ida (nee Roebuck ). After the early death of the mother, the child-rearing was the father. Ritschl attended high school in Göttingen, where he spent most of his childhood and youth, when his father was appointed in 1864 to the local university.
After graduating from high school in 1878 and enrolling at the Georg- August -Universität Göttingen, Ritschl made first his military service as a one-year volunteer from ibid. In 1879, he studied theology at the universities of Göttingen, Bonn and Giessen. Three years later he took his first theological examination and moved to Giessen, where he dealt with the history of art.
1885 doctorate in Ritschl Willibald Beyschlag at Halle University with a thesis " De epistulis Cyprianicis " lic. theol. In the same year he completed his habilitation with the work " Cyprian of Carthage and the constitution of the Church ," to which he Adolf von Harnack had advised.
Ritschl was after the death of his father in March 1889 Professor of Church History at the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel and worked intensively with its work, issued his writings and letters and wrote his biography.
After five years Ritschl returned to Bonn, where he first took at the University of the successor of Ernst Troeltsch as Extraordinatus of dogmatic theology and in 1897 was appointed full professor. Here was a large part of his works.
In the 1920s, Ritschl took as a representative of the Faculty in Berlin at the " Extraordinary Assembly of the 7th General Synod " and the " constitutional council " part.
After his retirement in the fall of 1927 Ritschl taught four more semesters until Karl Barth in the summer semester 1930, became his successor. In addition, still followed by numerous publications until 1940.
Throughout his career, Ritschl was six times dean of his faculty in Bonn ( for the first time 1900/1901 ), Honorary Doctor of the theological faculty in Kiel (29 July 1897), in 1915 he received the title of "secret consistory " and in 1930 he was made an honorary Doctor of Philosophy Faculty in Halle.
Organizations
Ritschl's dedication was not only a professional nature.
He was a member of the Free Conservative Party and the German Empire (1885-1889), the National Liberal Party (1889-1894); the German Fatherland Party (1917 /18); after 1918 the DNVP and after 1933 RLB.
Works
- De epistulis Cyprianicis, Diss Hall 1885
- Cyprian of Carthage and the constitution of the Church. A church history and canon law investigation, Göttingen 1885
- Albrecht Ritschl's life, Vol 1: 1822-1864, Vol 2: 1864-89 Freiburg iB 1892-1896
- History of dogma of Protestantism, Vol 1: Prolegomena. Biblicismus and traditionalism in the old Protestant Theol. , Leipzig 1908