Karl Ludwig Schmidt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Karl Ludwig Schmidt

German theologian

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1891

Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1956

Profession: theologian, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Karl Ludwig Schmidt

  • Karl Ludwig Schmidt (Frankfurt am Main 5 February 1891 – Basel, 10 January 1956) was a German Protestant theologian and professor of New Testament studies at the University of Basel.
  • He taught that the accounts of the New Testament were to be regarded as fixed written versions of oral Gospel tradition.
  • In 1919, his book Der Rahmen der Geschichte Jesu ("The Framework of the Story of Jesus") showed that Mark's chronology is the invention of the evangelist.
  • Using form criticism, Schmidt showed that an editor had assembled the narrative out of individual scenes that did not originally have a chronological order.
  • This finding challenged historians' ability to discern a historical Jesus and helped bring about a decades-long collapse in interest in the topic.He was professor of New Testament Studies from 1921-1925 in Giessen; 1925-1929 in Jena; from 1929-1933 in Bonn.
  • He was dismissed from his position as a professor at Bonn in September 1933 by the Nazi regime due to his resistance to the Aryan paragraph.
  • He was involved in church administration from 1933-1935 in Switzerland.
  • From 1935-1953 he was a professor of New Testament in Basel.
  • From 1922-1937 he was an editor of Theologischen Blätter and from 1945-1953 he was an editor of Theologischen Zeitschrift.
  • He wrote the article on the meaning of the Greek word ekklesia (church) for the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.
  • In 1959, Karl Barth wrote this about him after his death: "K.
  • L.
  • Schmidt, far superior to me in both learning and pugnacity, but always so stimulating."

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