Richard Adelbert Lipsius
Richard Adelbert Lipsius ( born February 14, 1830 in Gera, † August 19, 1892 in Jena ) was a German Protestant theologian.
Life
Lipsius, son of Karl Heinrich Adelbert Lipsius, who later became rector of the St. Thomas School in Leipzig and his wife (daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried rust) studied, after visiting the St. Thomas School 1848-1851 Protestant Theology at the University of Leipzig and was a member of a fraternity. There he was in 1853 in religious studies with a thesis on The Pauline doctrine of justification to the Dr. phil. doctorate. There was a licentiate in theology in 1855 and his habilitation on the First Clemsbrief ( De Clementi Romani epistola ad Corinthios priority Disquisitio ). From 1855 to 1859 he was a lecturer in theology. In 1859 he became an associate professor in Leipzig. From 1861 to 1865 Lipsius was a full professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Vienna from 1865 to 1871 of Systematic Theology at the University of Kiel. In the same year he was appointed professor of New Testament Studies and Systematic Theology at the University of Jena. In addition, he was the rector of the institution. He was a representative of the philosophy of religion and the historical theology.
From 1856 he preached at the University Church of St. Paul in Leipzig. In 1863 he was a member of the Austrian General Synod. In 1875 he was co-editor of the Journal of Protestant Theology of the Theological and 1886 Annual Report. In 1886 he founded the Evangelical Confederation and 1884 the General Evangelical Protestant missionary society.
Family
His brothers were the architect Johannes Wilhelm Konstantin Lipsius and the classical philologist Justus Lipsius Hermann. His son was a professor of philosophy of Friedrich Lipsius.