Otto Hermann Pesch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Hermann Pesch

German Roman Catholic theologian

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1931

Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 08-Sep-2014

Profession: theologian, university teacher, non-fiction writer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Otto Hermann Pesch (8 October 1931 in Köln – 8 September 2014) was a German Roman Catholic theologian. Pesch became member of the Dominican order 1952 and was ordained priest 1958, but 1972 left the order and was married.
From 1975 to 1998 he was a professor of systematic theology in the University of Hamburg, as a Roman Catholic in a Protestant department of theology.
As an ecumenical theologian Pesch was a disciple of Heinrich Fries.
He made his doctoral thesis 1965 about doctrine of justification comparing Martin Luther and Thomas Aquinas.