Julius Smend
Julius Smend ( born May 10, 1857 in Lengerich, † June 7, 1930 in Münster ) was a German theologian.
Life
Julius Smend comes from the old lawyers and family Smend theologian who served over three generations in succession in the 18th and 19th centuries, the reformed congregation Lengerich, Westphalia as a pastor. His brother was the theologian Rudolf Smend. The liberal- theological thought in his family should be formative for him, as well as the love of music, especially of Johann Sebastian Bach, which he mitgaben his parents.
His high school put Julius Smend with 19 years at the high school to the Pauline Muenster. He then studied theology at Bonn, Halle ( Saale) and Göttingen. In Bonn, he was a member of the fraternity Alemannia Bonn, together with his close friend Friedrich Philippi. In 1880 he began a Synodialvikariat in Paderborn. After a commenced the following year, eleven months Vicariate time in Minden, he was ordained in April 1881 and moved to Bonn as assistant pastor. There he wrote his Licentiatenarbeit that had the Lord's Supper to the topic. In 1885 he became pastor in Seelscheid, which was a small farming community at the time. In 1890 he married Helene Spring man from Osnabrück. In 1891 he became a full professor at the seminary at Friedberg (Hessen), where he was also entrusted with the care of souls. He also began with larger publications to appear in public. In 1893 he was appointed to the chair of Practical Theology at the University of Strasbourg. His work The Protestant German trade fairs to Luther's German Mass, which is considered his major work, dates from 1896. Together with the liturgists Friedrich Spitta he founded in the same year, the monthly magazine for worship and religious art ( MGkK ). Both justified so that the so-called older liturgical movement that sought to give the Protestant worship a form which should allow a proper enforcement of worship in evangelical spirit. At the Strasbourg Thomas Church their movement took a first practical application. In 1906, the assembled church he book for the Protestant communities, vol appeared first Therein also found his ideas of a character of the service entrance, which must take account of the patristic, scholastic and orthodox heritage and formulate the prayer language of contemporary, but also the silence should give space. In the same year the Smend accepted the rectorship of the University of Strasbourg.
In 1914 he was co-founder and first dean of the Faculty of Protestant Theology in his native city of Münster. In 1926 he became Professor Emeritus at the age of 68 years. The successor to his Department of Practical Theology, Wilhelm Stählin. Julius Smend 1893 born son Friedrich Smend was also a theologian and musicologist.
Writings (selection )
- Chalice refusal and Kelchspendung in the Western Church. A contribution to the history of worship. Göttingen: Cambridge University Press, 1898
- Church book for Protestant churches.
- The Protestant German trade fairs to German to Luther's fair. Göttingen 1896.
- Ceremonies. Brief considerations for Sundays and feast days of the liturgical year. Göttingen 1892. 2nd edition 1897.
- The political sermons of Schleiermacher 1806-1808: Speech to the commencement of the Rectorate of the Kaiser Wilhelm University of Strasbourg. Strasbourg: Heitz, 1906.
- Lectures and essays on the liturgy, hymnology and church music. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann, 1925