Hans Lietzmann (2 March 1875 – 25 June 1942) was a German Protestant

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and

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who was a native of

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...

. He initially studied in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a po ...

, then continued his education in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

, where he was a student of

Hermann Usener Hermann Karl Usener (23 October 1834 – 21 October 1905) was a German scholar in the fields of philology and comparative religion. Life Hermann Usener was born at Weilburg and educated at its Gymnasium. From 1853 he studied at Heidelberg, ...

(1834–1905). In 1905 he was appointed professor of

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at the

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, and in 1923 was a successor to Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) at the

University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...

. During his career he obtained an honorary doctorate from the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

, and in 1927 became a member of the

Prussian Academy of Sciences The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (german: Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin ...

. He died in

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, Switzerland on 25 June 1942. Largely known for his work as a

and for his research of the

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, Lietzmann was also an authority in the fields of

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and

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Grab Hans Lietzmann, Friedhof Wilmersdorf

Selected publications

Lietzmann was the author of the four volume ''Geschichte der Alten Kirche'' (History of the Early Church) and ''Messe und Herrenmahl'' (

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and

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); both works later being translated and published in English. Other significant books by Lietzmann include: * ''Das Muratorische Fragment und die Monarchianischen Prologe zu den Evangelien'' (The

Muratorian fragment The Muratorian fragment, also known as the Muratorian Canon (Latin: ), is a copy of perhaps the oldest known list of most of the books of the New Testament. The fragment, consisting of 85 lines, is a 7th-century Latin manuscript bound in a 7th- o ...

and the Monarchian Prologues to the Gospels) (Bonn 1902). * ''Symbole der Alten Kirche'' (Symbols of the Early Church) ("Kleine Texte für Vorlesungen und Übungen" 17/18; 6th edition, Berlin 1968). * ''Petrus und Paulus in Rom: Liturgische und archäologische Studien'' (

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and

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: Liturgical and Archaeological Studies), 2nd, revised edition (Bonn 1927). * ''An die Korinther I/II'' (

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and

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), 5th, expanded edition ("Handbuch zum Neuen Testament 9";

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1949).

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lietzmann, Hans 1875 births 1942 deaths Writers from Düsseldorf German historians of religion 20th-century German Protestant theologians New Testament scholars Humboldt University of Berlin faculty University of Jena faculty German male non-fiction writers