Julius Smend (10 May 1857 – 7 June 1930) was a German
theologian
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born in
Lengerich,
Westphalia
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The territory of the regio ...
. He was a brother to theologian
Rudolf Smend (1851–1913) and the father of
musicologist
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Friedrich Smend
Friedrich Smend (26 August 1893 – 10 February 1980) was a German Protestant theologian and librarian at the Preußische Staatsbibliothek in Berlin, publishing a catalogue of the writings of Adolf von Harnack. He was a liturgist, teaching as pr ...
.
He studied theology in
Bonn
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,
Halle and
Göttingen
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, receiving his
ordination
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in 1881. Afterwards he worked as an auxiliary minister in Bonn, and in 1885 became a minister in
Seelscheid. In 1891 he taught classes at the
seminary
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in
Friedberg, and two years later was appointed professor of practical theology at the
University of Strasbourg
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The French university traces its history to the ea ...
.
In 1896 with
Friedrich Spitta
Friedrich Spitta (11 January 1852 – 7 June 1924) was a German Protestant theologian.
Biography
Spitta was born at Wittingen, Lower Saxony, the son of German hymn writer Karl Johann Philipp Spitta and brother of Philipp (music historian ...
(1852–1924), he founded ''Monatsschrift für Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst'', a monthly magazine of worship and religious art. With Spitta, he was a primary representative of the ''Ältere liturgische Bewegung'' (Older Liturgical Movement), a theological entity that was created by Smend at the
Thomaskirche in Strasbourg. In 1914 he was co-founder of the Protestant theological faculty at
Münster
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(
rector
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, 1919/20).
Smend, Julius Wilhelm Hermann
In: Neue Deutsche Biographie
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His best written work was ''Die evangelischen deutschen Messen bis zu Luthers deutscher Messe'' ("The Protestant
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Masses up until Luther
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* Martin Luther (1483–1546), German monk credited with initiating the Protestant Reformation
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* Luther (give ...
's German Mass"; 1896).
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English translation
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1857 births
1930 deaths
People from Lengerich, Westphalia
People from the Province of Westphalia
19th-century German Protestant theologians
20th-century German Protestant theologians
19th-century German male writers
Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
Academic staff of the University of Münster
German male non-fiction writers