Philipp Adam Christoph Vielhauer (

Bali, Cameroon Bali is a town and commune in Cameroon, lying west of Bamenda. It has a population of 32,000 (2001 estimate). Formerly the centre of a kingdom, it is known for its palace and its regular festival A festival is an event ordinarily celebra ...

3 December 1914-

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23 December 1977) was a German Lutheran pastor, and scholar of

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and the

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. He is notable for having been the first German scholar to recognise quotes of Pauline epistles in the Book of Acts. 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

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movement at University, as a pastor he refused to sign a document supporting the Nazi regime in 1937 and lost his stipend at

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. Though he found a position at the Lutheran church in Stuttgart-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

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, Russia in 1944. Vielhauer taught briefly at

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1947-1949, then at the

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

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