Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann
Johann von Hofmann ( born December 21, 1810 in Nuremberg, † 20 December 1877 in Erlangen ) acted as German Lutherans Erlangen theology.
Life
Hofmann's home was marked by the revival movement, which had emerged from the Swabian Pietism Johann Albrecht Bengel. After graduating from the Melanchthon -Gymnasium Nürnberg Hofmann studied Protestant theology at the Friedrich -Alexander- University of Erlangen. In 1827 he became a member of the fraternity Arminia Erlangen. Charles of Raumer and Christian Krafft were important teachers. He moved to the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin, in which he coined Leopold von Ranke, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Schelling.
Hofmann was a high school teacher in 1833 in Erlangen, in 1835 then Repetent and Associate Professor of History, 1838 Associate Professor of Protestant Theology. 1841 went Hofmann as A.O. Professor of the Old Testament and the New Testament at the University of Rostock, but returned in 1845 as Full Professor of New Testament exegesis, Christian ethics and Encyclopedia after gaining back. There he officiated four times as Vice-Rector. Louis I ( Bavaria ) in 1855 awarded him the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown, which the survey was connected to the personal nobility.
From 1863 to 1869 Hofmann was for the Bavarian Progress Party member of the Chamber of Deputies (Bayern) ( electoral district of Erlangen- Fürth ).
Importance
As a biblical theologian Hofmann was mainly involved in the question of whether the Bible can prove to be the basis of theology. Against the recourse Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Lutheran orthodoxy Hofmann attempted here to establish the truth of Scripture on the Ghostweave faith and to develop a theological understanding of science.
The contents of the script, which you immanent history, was developed by Hofmann as salvation history, in the midst of Christ stands. This Christocentric - pneumatological alignment was then, however, counteracted by the reduction of the doctrine of God on subjective statements of belief. Background of this anthropological doctrine of God was his own pietistic piety Hofmann. Kosequent then developed the story of salvation in human perspective, but which had to lose the doctrine of justification in importance. The soteriology has been marginalized by a relativized concept of sin. Most recently, even the church only instrument and demonstrative on a way to a perfect Christianity.