Max Reischle

Max Wilhelm Theodore Reischle (18 June 1858 – 11 December 1905) was an Austrian-born German Protestant systematic theologian. He was born in Vienna, and died in Tübingen.

Spirituskreis (1902): Standing, left to right: Georg Wissowa, Eduard Meyer, Alois Riehl, Johannes Conrad, Carl Robert, Rudolf Stammler, Emil Kautzsch, Max Reischle.

In 1887, he received his doctorate at the University of Tübingen, later working as a professor at the Karlsgymnasium in Stuttgart (from 1889). In 1892, he was appointed a full professor of practical theology at the University of Giessen, then become a professor of systematic theology at the University of Göttingen (1895). During the following year, he accepted a call to Halle as chair of systematic theology.^[1]

His studies largely dealt with mysticism in theology, the philosophy of religion and the transmission of ethical principles in academic instruction.^[1]

Published works[]

• Die Frage nach dem Wesen der Religion. Grundlagen zu einer Methodologie der theologischen Wissenschaft (1889) – The question of the nature of religion. Foundations for a methodology of theological science.
• Der Glaube an Jesus Christus und die geschichtliche Erforschung seines Lebens (1893) – Faith in Jesus Christ and the historical study of his life.
• Christentum und Entwicklungsgedanke (1898).
• Christliche Glaubenslehre in Leitsätzen für eine akademische Vorlesung entwickelt (1899) – Christian doctrine as guidelines for academic lecture development.
• Werturteile und Glaubensurteile (1900) – Value and belief judgments.
• Die Bibel und das christliche Volksleben (1902).^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Max Reischle at www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de (German language)