Otto Bardenhewer

Bertram Otto Bardenhewer (Mönchengladbach, 16 March 1851 Munich, 23 March 1935) was a German Catholic patrologist. His Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur is a standard work, re-issued in 2008.[1] For Bardenhewer, a patrologist was not a literary historian of the Church Fathers, but a historian of dogmatic definitions.[2]

Life

He was educated at the University of Bonn (Ph.D., 1873) and University of Würzburg, and in 1879 became privat-docent of theology at the University of Munich. In 1884 he accepted a call to Münster as professor of Old Testament. Two years later he returned to Munich, as a professor for New Testament exegesis and Biblical hermeneutics, a position he held to 1924.

Works

Notes

  1. Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur, introduction by Alfons Fürst, ISBN 978-3-534-20191-4
  2. Hubert Jedin, John Dolan, The Church in the Industrial Age (1981), p. 324 note.

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