Wilhelm Herrmann
Johann Georg Wilhelm Herrmann ( born December 6, 1846 in Melkow; † January 2, 1922 in Marburg an der Lahn ) was a German Protestant theologian.
Life
Wilhelm Herrmann ( the Younger ) was born the son of a pastor.
From winter 1866 Herrmann studied at the University of Halle Protestant theology and was August Tholuck amanuensis, that functioned as his writing assistant or secretary.
Early on, he dedicated himself to philosophical studies. Better Maximilian (1844-1900), worked at that time as a lecturer of Protestant Theology at the University of Halle and before Herrmann Tholuck secretary, made him on Albrecht Ritschl's major work The Christian doctrine of justification and reconciliation. 1870-1874, attentive. Early 1875, Mr man from his theological Licence examination and qualified as a study of Gregorii Nysseni sententiae de salute adipiscenda, 1875.
On 22 January 1875 he wrote in a letter to Ritschl, which letter he beilegte his Lizentiatendissertation: "Since I am with Better in greater traffic, he has not ceased to point me to your writings as a means me from the spell of Education that I have acquired some in Concord, partly in opposition to Hall 's suggestions to rid. . Myself settle in their writings, has since set up a scientific task, I asked myself " Better, " unusual regsamen mind "and devoted to everything new, wrote Ferdinand Kattenbusch (1851-1935) in his autobiography ( published in: The Science of Religion. the presence in self-presentations Edited by Erich rod Volume 5:. .. .. Martin Dibelius, Paul Fine, Ferdinand Kattenbusch, Emil Walter Mayer, Willy Staerk, Paul Wernle publisher Felix Meiner in Leipzig 1929, 4, 252, 12 pages and 6 figures S. 85-121 ), had been the so-called Ritschlian theological school in Halle, the actual founder.
Herrmann was appointed in 1879 as a full professor with the teaching license of systematic theology at the University of Marburg. The college was the scene of his life's work, which he remained faithful to professorships from renowned universities despite repeated appeals. In 1889/90 he served as rector. On the occasion of his 70th birthday to him from the Law Faculty of the University of Marburg awarded an honorary doctorate.
Herrmann was among the students Ritschl's the one who made further its theology on selbstständigsten. Theologians of various modes of apprehension as Karl Barth (1886-1968) and Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) owed his decisive suggestions. In addition to Barth and Bultmann known as the theological Luther Swedish researchers Bishop Einar Billing (1871-1939) was one of his more important students.