Horst Weigelt (born 1934 in

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) is a German Protestant theologian. From 1975 to 2002 he was Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the

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of Bamberg. His research focuses on the Reformation, Pietism and Enlightenment in the early modern period. He has also written specifically on Schwenkfelders. After studying Protestant theology for four years at the

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and the

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, he passed the first theological examination in 1958 and the second in 1960. The following year he received his doctorate in

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. In 1962 he was ordained in the

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. From 1969 Weigelt worked as a private lecturer. Beginning in 1974, he lectured at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1975 he received the chair for historical and systematic theology at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg and was also lecturer in Bavarian church history at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. He retired in 2002.

Works

* ''Pietismus-Studien''. 1. Teil: ''Der spener-hallische Pietismus'' (Arbeiten zur Theologie II/4),

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1965 * ''Johann Kaspar Lavater. Leben, Werk und Wirkung''

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1991 * (editor with Dietrich Meyer, Gustav Adolf Benrath, Ulrich Hutter-Wolandt and

Ludwig Petry Ludwig Petry (b. 3 June 1908 in Alzey, d. 25 November 1991 in Mainz) was a German historian. Petry was born into lawyer's family and grew up in Darmstadt.

: ''Zur Geschichte der evangelischen Kirche in Schlesien'' München 1992 * ''The Schwenckfelders in Silesia'' ( Pennsburg 1995) * ''Johann Kaspar Lavater Reisetagebücher. Vol. 1. Tagebuch von der Studien- und Bildungsreise nach Deutschland 1763 und 1764'' Göttingen 1997 * ''Johann Kaspar Lavater Reisetagebücher. Vol. 2. Reisetagebuch nach Süddeutschland 1778 Reisetagebuch in die Westschweiz 1785 Brieftagebuch von der Reise nach Kopenhagen 1793'' Göttingen 1997 * ''Von Schwenckfeld bis Löhe: Aspekte aus der Geschichte evangelischer Theologie und Frömmigkeit in Bayern''

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, 1999 * ''Geschichte des Pietismus in Bayern'' Göttingen, 2001 * ''Johannes Schwanhauser: Schriften und Predigten'' Neustadt an der Aisch 2010 * ''Migration and Faith: The Migrations of the Schwenkfelders from Germany to America, Risks and Opportunities'' (Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017)

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