Erich Haupt

"Spirituskreis" (1902); Erish Haupt sitting first on left

Karl Friedrich Erich Haupt (8 July 1841 – 19 February 1910) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Biography[]

He was born at Stralsund, and educated at Berlin. He later worked as a schoolteacher in Kolberg and Treptow an der Rega. He was a professor of New Testament exegesis, successively at Kiel (from 1878), Greifswald (from 1883), and Halle (from 1888), where in 1902 he was named university rector.^[1]

He was successor to Willibald Beyschlag as chairman of the main association of the Gustav-Adolf-Stiftung, and from 1901 to 1908 was editor of the "Deutsch-evangelischen Blätter". For a period of time, he served as head of the Evangelischen Bundes (Protestant Federation).^[1]

Works[]

• Der erste Brief des Johannes (“First Epistle of John”; 1869).
• Die alttestamentlichen Citate in den vier Evangelien (“Citations of the Old Testament in the four gospels"; 1871).
• Die Kirche und die theologische Lehrfreiheit (“The church and freedom of theological teaching”; 1881).
• Plus ultra, zur Universitätsfrage (2nd ed., 1890).
• Die Bedeutung der heiligen Schrift für den evangelischen Christen (“The meaning of the Holy Scripture for Lutherans”; 1891).
• Zum Verständnis des Apostolats im Neuen Testament ("To the understanding of the Apostolates in the New Testament"; 1896).^[2]

References[]

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Haupt, Erich" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

External links[]

• Works by or about Erich Haupt at Internet Archive

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