Albrecht Wolters, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albrecht Wolters

German Protestant theologian

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1822

Place of Birth: Emmerich am Rhein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 29-Mar-1878

Profession: theologian, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Albrecht Julius Constantin Wolters (25 August 1822, Emmerich am Rhein – 29 March 1878, Halle an der Saale) was a German Protestant theologian.
He was the father of classical archaeologist Paul Wolters (1858–1936). He studied theology at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin, where he was a pupil of August Neander.
After passing his first theological examination, he spent three years as a tutor in Naples, then serving as an assistant pastor in the city of Krefeld (1849).
In 1850 became a teacher at a higher Töchterschule in Cologne, and from July 1851 to May 1857, worked as a pastor in Wesel.From 1857, he became a pastor and superintendent in Bonn, and in 1868, received his doctorate of divinity from the University of Bonn.
In 1874 he was appointed professor of practical theology at the University of Halle.
In 1876, with Willibald Beyschlag he founded the Deutsch-evangelischen Blätter, a publication of the Mittelpartei (central party) in the Kirche der Altpreußischen Union.