Wilhelm Schneemelcher (21 August 1914, Berlin – 6 August 2003, Bad Honnef ) was a German Protestant theologian and expert on the New Testament Apocrypha .
5-639: He obtained through Hans Lietzmann a post researching Latin and Greek manuscripts at the Church Fathers Commission, however this came under the Prussian Academy of Sciences so in 1938 Schneemelcher was removed by the Nazi authorities due to being "politically unreliable", due to sympathies with the Confessing Church , and was forced to turn to making a living as a bookseller's assistant. In 1939 he
10-547: The Neutestamentlichen Apokryphen in deutscher Übersetzung in 1964, which was then translated into English at The New Testament Apocrypha by R. McL. Wilson in 1965. As editor he coordinated the work of dozens of scholars including Philip Vielhauer and Georg Streck. His work is today commonly referred to as the "standard edition" of the New Testament Apocrypha. In later years, Schneemelcher's co-editor
15-549: Was Joachim Jeremias . Hans Lietzmann Hans Lietzmann (2 March 1875 – 25 June 1942) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian who was a native of Düsseldorf . He initially studied in Jena , then continued his education in Bonn , where he was a student of Hermann Usener . In 1905 he was appointed professor of church history at the University of Jena , and in 1923
20-567: Was a successor to Adolf von Harnack at the University of Berlin . During his career he obtained an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens , and in 1927 became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences . He died in Locarno , Switzerland on 25 June 1942. Largely known for his work as a church historian and for his research of the New Testament , Lietzmann was also an authority in
25-509: Was conscripted into the Wehrmacht , and after the war he was a village pastor in Stöckheim near Northeim . From 1954 to 1979 he was professor of patristics at the University of Bonn . He was editor of the collection Festschrift für Günther Dehn in honour of the anti-Nazi pastor Günther Dehn . He completely revised and enlarged the older collection of Edgar Hennecke (1865–1951) to produce
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