Philipp Adam Christoph Vielhauer ( Bali, Cameroon 3 December 1914- Bonn 23 December 1977) was a German Lutheran pastor, and scholar of early Christianity and the New Testament Apocrypha. He is notable for having been the first German scholar to recognise quotes of

Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...

in the

Book of Acts The Acts of the Apostles ( grc-koi, Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, ''Práxeis Apostólōn''; la, Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells of the founding of the Christian Church and the spread of its message ...

. Philipp Vielhauer was born in Cameroon to Rev. (later Dr.) Gustav Adolf and April Vielhauer, a missionary couple of the Basel Mission. Adolf Vielhauer had already been resident in Cameroon for 20 years. His mother died in Cameroon in 1925. He was ordained by his father on 11 June 1936 in the Lutherhaus at Karlsruhe-Durlach. As someone who had already participated in the Bekennende Kirche movement at University, as a pastor he refused to sign a document supporting the Nazi regime in 1937 and lost his stipend at Baden. Though he found a position at the Lutheran church in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

-Untertürkheim from 1935-1941.Biography in German
"Vielhauer wurde schon während des Studiums Mitglied der Bekennenden Kirche. Aufgrund seiner Überzeugung weigerte er sich, einen Beamtenfragebogen für kirchliche Mitarbeiter auszufüllen, durch den das staatliche Beamtengesetz auf die Kirche übertragen worden war, und eine Erklärung auf den nationalsozialistischen Staat zu unterzeichnen. Deshalb lehnte ihn die Finanzabteilung der Badischen Kirche - trotz seiner sehr guten fachlichen Leistung - aus »staatspolitischen Gründen« für den Kirchendienst ab." He was drafted in 1941 and severely wounded in Toropets, Russia in 1944. Vielhauer taught briefly at University of Göttingen 1947-1949, then at the University of Bonn from 1950 till his death in 1977

Publications

* ''Aufsätze zum Neuen Testament'', München, Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Vol. 1 (1965), Vol. 2 (1979). * ''Zum "Paulinismus" der Apostelgeschichte'', 1950, English translation: ''On the Paulinism of Acts'', in Leander E. Keck, J. Louis Martyn (eds.), ''Studies in Luke-Acts. Essays Presented in Honor of Paul Schubert'', Nashville: Abingdon Press 1966, pp. 33–50 (this essay made the important point that the author of Acts knew at least some of the letters of Paul). * ''Geschichte der urchristlichen Literatur: Einleitung in das Neue Testament, die Apokryphen und die Apostolischen Vater'', Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1975. * ''Jewish-Christian Gospels'' in Hennecke and

Schneemelcher Wilhelm Schneemelcher (21 August 1914, Berlin – 6 August 2003, Bad Honnef) was a German Protestant theologian and expert on the New Testament Apocrypha. Career He obtained through Hans Lietzmann a post researching Latin and Greek manuscripts ...

's ''New Testament Apocrypha'', John Kxnox Press, 1991.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vielhauer, Philip German biblical scholars 1914 births 1977 deaths