Hermann Schultz

Heinrich Hermann Schultz ( born December 30, 1836 in Lüchow, † May 15, 1903 in Göttingen ) was a Lutheran theologian, university professor and abbot of the monastery Bursfelde at Hann. Munden.

Life and work

After attending school in Celle Hermann Schultz studied 1853-1856 theology and philosophy at the universities of Göttingen and Erlangen. The First Theological Examination, he passed in 1856.

In the years 1856-1858 Schultz worked as a private tutor in Hamburg. In 1858 he became a Doctor of Theology and a year later was Repetent at the Theological pin in Göttingen.

Schultz habilitated and remained in Göttingen as a Privatdozent. Already in 1864, he received the full professor of Old Testament Theology at the University of Basel. Here he belonged from 1870 also the Basel Council of Churches.

In 1872, Schultz was a professor at the newly established University of Strasbourg to take over the chair of biblical subjects and Practical Theology at the University of Heidelberg later by two years.

As of the 1876 Hermann Schultz taught at the University of Göttingen, whose theological faculty had given him already in 1865 an honorary doctorate. Here he taught alongside Albrecht Ritschl and in close proximity to his Systematic Theology, also the exegetical subjects and Practical Theology.

In Göttingen Schultz was appointed university preacher, and in 1881 was transferred to him in the succession of Hermann Reuter, the office of the abbot of the monastery Bursfelde in the Weser mountain country. In this capacity he was one of the leading personalities of the Hanover Lutheran Church.

Schultz died after a long illness at age 67. He is considered an important representative of the school Albrecht Ritschl, whose eulogy he gave in 1889. His successor in Göttingen was Walther stone.

Among his children, the philosopher Julius Schultz (1862-1936) and the philologist Hermann Schultz included ( 1881-1915 ).

Writings

  • The conditions of the Christian doctrine of immortality., 1861.
  • Old Testament theology. The religion of revelation on its pre-Christian stage of development., 1869.
  • The doctrine of the divinity of Christ. , 1881.
  • Sermons, held at the University Church in Göttingen. In 1882.
  • The doctrine of the Eucharist. Studies and reviews. In 1886.
  • Grundriß der evangelischen Dogmatik. 1890.
  • The Protestant theology in its relation to science and piety. In 1890.
  • The Old Testament and the Protestant church. (Notebooks to the Christian world, No. 7). In 1894.
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