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Rudolf Otto : Studium

Gregory D. Alles

Immatrikulation an der Univerisität Erlangen
Matriculation at the University of Erlangen
May 14, 1888

Immatrikulation an der Univerisität Göttingen
Matriculation at the University of Göttingen
May 6, 1889

Wiederantreten in die Universität Erlangen
Otto re-enters the University of Erlangen
November 7, 1889

Neubeginn des Studiums an der Universität Göttingen
Otto returns to the University of Göttingen
April 23, 1891

Ottos Lehrer · Otto's Teachers

• Baumann
• Class
• Paul Anton de Lagarde (1827-1891)--professor of oriental languages at Göttingen and a notorious German national and anti-Semite.
• Falkenberg
• Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank (1827-1894)--the leading, second-generation theologian of the "Erlangen school". He joined the faculty in 1857 and was promoted to full professor in 1858. Frank rooted the certainty of faith in the experience of rebirth and made it prior to the objects of faith. Doing so evoked charges of subjectivism, especially from Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889), the leading theologian at Göttingen.
• J. E. Gloël (1857-1891).
• Theodor von Häring (1848-1928)--to whom, from the tenth edition on, Otto dedicated his most famous book, The idea of the holy. Häring's views straddled the divide between Pietism and Ritschlianism, that is, between relying on personal experience and history in formulating theological truths.
• Albert Hauck (1845-1918)
• August Köhler (1835-1897)--a traditionalist who argued against the more recent methods of biblical interpretation.
• Karl Knoke (1841-1920)--professor of practical theology at Göttingen from 1882-1911.
• Theodor von Kolde (1850-1913)--a Reformation specialist.
• Leonhard Rabus (1835-1916)--instructor in philosophy.
• Hermann Reuter (1817-1889)--noted for his refusal to permit any methodological distinction between church and political history.
• Hermann Schultz (1836-1903)--professor of Old Testament from 1876 and rector of the university in 1883-84 and 1894-95. Although Schultz was more a younger contemporary than a student of Ritschl's, his thought tended in the same direction, without diverging so far from Schleiermacher's reliance on religious experience.
• Reinhold Seeberg (1859-1935)--one of the leading theologians of the time. Firmly rooted in the Lutheran confessions, he came to found in the early 1900s a "modern positive theology" as an attempt to express ancient truths in new forms.
• (Hermann) Emil Selenka (1842-1902), professor of zoology and comparative anatomy.
• Rudolf Smend (1851-1913)--a student of Julius Wellhausen (1814-1918) who became professor of Bible and semitic languages in 1889.
• Friedrich Spiegel (1820-1905)--an orientalist at the University of Erlangen, specializing in Iranian languages and Zoroastrianism.
• Paul Tschackert (1848-1911)--professor of church history, especially Reformation history and the history of the church of Hannover (1890-1911)..
• Friedrich Wieseler (1811-1892)--from 1854 professor of archaeology at Göttingen.
• J. T. A. Wiesinger (1818-1908)--professor of theology and New Testament from 1860 to 1895.