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Hans LIETZMANN
( 1875 - 1942 )

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Hans Lietzmann was born in Dusseldorf in 1875, but spent the formative years of his youth at Luther's town of Wittenberg. The father having died before the boy was ten years old, the family was very poor. Only the heroic self-sacrificing ambition of his mother made it possible for the boy to remain at school, even when helped by a scholarship. Here his interests were mainly concentrated on the classics, in which he showed great ability, but his eager mind was almost equally attracted to the physical sciences. Indeed, practical astronomy was one of his most cherished relaxations.
After studying a short time at the University of Jena, he transferred to Bonn and made classical philology and ancient history his main interests. In 1896 he published a prize essay on the term "Son of Man", in which the young scholar tried to show that its technical sense was due not to Jesus Himself, but to its strangeness when translated into Greek. Needless to say, discussion of the matter still proceeds.
After some experience as an assistant schoolmaster, in 1900 he became Lecturer in Church History in the University of Bonn. During this period, he conceived the plan of the Kleine Texte now known throughout the world as reliable critical editions of important, and often otherwise inaccessible, source-material. In 1905, he became Assistant Professor of Church History in Jena, and about the same time issued the first volumes of the Handbuch zum Neuen Testament, a commentary which, in continually renewed editions, represents the finest scholarship of our day. Here Professor Lietzmann is himself responsible for the major Pauline Epistles, which he has dealt with in masterly fashion.
In 1908, he was raised to the rank of full professor, and, in lecturing on Church History, made it his ideal to show with what good reason history has followed its course, and to maintain that we should use the present as a preparation for the future, and that a Christian should view everything sub specie aternitatis. Meanwhile, his interests in paleography deepened, and resulted in many volumes of the greatest value to both young students and ripe scholars. His publications in this field are based on numerous first-hand researches in the Mediterranean lands, and these researches have brought forth some of their ripest fruit in his writings on the liturgies, the history of the sacraments, textual criticism and many other studies. Particularly important are his monographs on Peter and Paul in Rome, and on the Mass as related to the Lord's Supper.
In 1924, Professor Lietzmann succeeded to Harnack's famous chair in Berlin, an honour which was indeed his due. His labours became more diverse and important than ever. He was the editor-in-chief of numerous, learned journals and book-series, a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and chairman of the section dealing with the Church Fathers. He was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy and of the Gottingen Science Association.
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 The founding of the Church universal, A history of the early Church, Volume II
Titre : The founding of the Church universal, A history of the early Church, Volume II / auteur(s) : Hans LIETZMANN -
Editeur : Lutterworth Press
Année : 1963
Imprimeur/Fabricant : London
Description : 15 x 22 cm, 328 pages,
Collection :
Notes : Fourth impression, First published in 1938
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Sujets : Church History
ISBN :
Lecture On-line : non disponible

Commentaire :

This is the second volume of Dr. Lietzmann's great History of the Early Church, so successfully begun in The Beginnings of the Christian Church. With the earlier volume dealing with the history of the Church in the first two centuries, the present book carries the chronicle of events down to the death of Origen.
There are notable chapters on the main problems confronting the Church in its vital formative period, and there are also brilliant character studies of the great figures, including Tertullian and Origen.
It is not often that a work of first-class historical scholarship is written with such accomplished ease and simplicity, making it accessible to the ordinary reader. This the author has done in a work which is likely when completed to remain a standard history for many years to come. The theological student will also find the work wholly satisfying in all essentials.
Dr. Lee Woolf's translation, thoroughly revised since the publication of the first English edition in 1938, remains a faithful interpretation of Lietzmann's penetrating thought.
The History of the Early Church is in four volumes.

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 From Constantine to Julian, A history of the early Church, Volume III
Titre : From Constantine to Julian, A history of the early Church, Volume III / auteur(s) : Hans LIETZMANN - Translated by Bertram Lee Woolf
Editeur : Lutterworth Press
Année : 1963
Imprimeur/Fabricant : London
Description : 15 x 22 cm, 339 pages,
Collection :
Notes : First published in 1950
Autres auteurs :
Sujets : Church History
ISBN :
Lecture On-line : non disponible

Commentaire :

This is the third of the series of volumes planned by Professor Lietzmann to cover the whole period of the early Christian Church. The other volumes are The Beginnings of the Christian Church, The Founding of the Church Universal, and The Era of the Church Fathers.
The present volume covers the period in which the Church, emerging from the persecution under Diocletian, found comparative security under Constantine. It takes us through the stormy years of the Arian controversy to the short-lived imperial attempt at a pagan revival under Julian the Apostate.
Professor Lietzmann's great learning never obscures the clarity of his narrative, and his skilful use of recent research gives promise that his last work will be accepted as a standard history for many years to come.
Dr. Bertram Lee Woolf, whose felicitous translation of the two earlier volumes won wide praise, is again the translator.
Each volume is designed to be self-contained, and may be purchased separately.

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 The beginnings of the Christian Church
Titre : The beginnings of the Christian Church / auteur(s) : Hans LIETZMANN - Translated by Bertram Lee Woolf
Editeur : Lutterworth Press
Année : 1962
Imprimeur/Fabricant : London
Description : 15 x 22 cm, 303 pages,
Collection :
Notes : First published in 1937
Autres auteurs :
Sujets : Church History
ISBN :
Lecture On-line : non disponible

Commentaire :

In this first volume of A History of the Early Church, Professor Lietzmann covers the period from the ministry of John the Baptist to the Marcionite and Gnostic controversies in the middle of the second century.

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