David Erdmann

David Erdmann
Christian Friedrich David Erdmann
Born
Christian Friedrich David Erdmann

(1821-07-28)28 July 1821
Güstebiese, Prussia (now Poland)
Died(1905-03-11)11 March 1905
Breslau, German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland)
EducationUniversity of Berlin
OccupationsTheologian, Church Historian, Professor, Pastor
Theological work
Tradition or movementEvangelical
Main interestsChurch History, Luther, Silesian Church History

David Erdmann (28 July 1821 - 11 March 1905) was a German evangelical theologian and church historian.

Life

Christian Friedrich David Erdmann was born at Güstebiese (as it was then called), a village on the eastern bank of the Oder river a short distance inland and upstream from Stettin. He studied Theology in Berlin, and in 1845 became a member of the Berlin Wingolf (fraternity organisation). He received a "Privatdozent" (teaching certificate) in 1853, and in 1856 became a full professor for Theology and Church History at the University of Königsberg, also serving as a pastor.

Between 1864 and 1900 he served as General Superintendent of the Ecclesiastical College for the Prussian Union of churches in Silesia. For this job he was based in Breslau (as Wrocław was then known). In 1865 he was also appointed a full honorary professor at the university there. Between 1882 and 1899 Erdmann was chair of the Chairman of the History Association of the Evangelical Church in Silesia. He retired in 1900.

Published output (not necessarily a complete list)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Horst Fuhrmann (1989). Fern von gebildeten menschen: eine oberschlesische Kleinstadt um 1870 ... Footnote 254. C.H.Beck. p. 173. ISBN 978-3-406-33984-4.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Erdmann, David. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Vol 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd unmodified edition, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1, Sp. 1534.
  3. ↑ Gesamtverzeichnis des Wingolf, Lichtenberg 1991
  4. ↑ "Die Vereinsvorsitzenden ... 1882-1899". Die Vereinsgeschichte. Intriguingly, the organisation's current chairman, in office since 1990, is a near namesake, Dr.Christian-Erdmann Schott. Verein für Schlesische Kirchengeschichte e.V., Mainz. Archived from the original on 2017-08-03. Retrieved 3 August 2017.