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 born the son of a legal advisor and the grandson of a notary.[3]
He was educated at the University of Bonn (Ph.D., 1873) and University of Würzburg. He became a Catholic priest in 1875.[3] In 1879, he became privat-docent of theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1884, he accepted a call to the University of Münster as professor of Old Testament. Two years later he returned to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, as a professor for New Testament exegesis and Biblical hermeneutics, a position he held until 1924.
Works
- Hermetis Trismegisti qui apud Arabes fertur de castigatione animæ libellus (Bonn, 1873) [3]
- Des heiligen Hippolytus von Rom Kommentar zum Buche Daniel (Freiburg, 1877) [4]
- Polychronius, Bruder Theodors von Mopsuestia and Bischof von Apamea (1879) [4]
- Die pseudo-aristotelische Schrift über die reine Gute, bekannt unter dem Namen "Liber de Causis" (1882) [3][5]
- Patrologie (1894) [4]
- Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur (5 vols., 1902 to 1932).[4]
References
- Back to citation Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur, introduction by Alfons Fürst, ISBN 978-3-534-20191-4
- Back to citation Hubert Jedin, John Dolan, The Church in the Industrial Age (1981), p. 324 note.
- Back to citation occurrence 3.0 Back to citation occurrence 3.1 Back to citation occurrence 3.2 Back to citation occurrence 3.3 "Bardenheuer, Bertram Otto". Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
- Back to citation occurrence 4.0 Back to citation occurrence 4.1 Back to citation occurrence 4.2 Back to citation occurrence 4.3 "Bardenheuer, Bertram Otto". Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
- Back to citation "Bardenheuer, Bertram Otto, 131847791". Deutsche National Bibloiothek. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
External links
- Works by or about Otto Bardenhewer at the Internet Archive
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Bardenhewer, Otto". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. col. 368. ISBN 3-88309-013-1.