Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz Explained

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (20 December 1906, Brambauer, Lünen – 19 August 1979, Dortmund) was a Protestant theologian and writer.[1]

Life

Bautz studied theology in Münster, Bethel (Bielefeld), Berlin and Tübingen.[1] From February 1939 he was pastor in the Franz Arndt-Haus, a war invalid home in Volmarstein, and later pastor in Kriescht and Annarode. From 1954 to 1958 he worked for the Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft as a publishing editor and at the same time as a parish representative at the parish of the Dorfkirche Stiepel. In 1959 he took over a sick leave in Heven (Witten). In the Dortmund City and State Library as well as in the University and State Library of Münster, Bautz worked on the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), a reference work he founded, authored and edited. In all, he edited, researched and wrote 3,534 articles for the same himself.[2] With the piano teacher Else Bautz, née Schlimm, whom he married in 1939, he had three children, a daughter and two sons. His youngest child, (1945–2020) continued the editorship of the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon from 1979.[3] [4]

Selected works

Sources

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bautz . Traugott . 2018 . Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz – BBKL . subscription . 26 January 2022 . . Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH . de.
  2. Book: Bautz, Traugott . 50 Jahre Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon: ein Weg in die Zukunft . 2018 . Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH . 978-3-95948-351-3 . Bautz . Traugott . Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon . Nordhausen . 13–14 . de . Vorwort . Jaspert . Bernd . https://content.bautz.de/neuerscheinungen-2018/pdf/9783959483513.pdf.
  3. Hering . Rainer . December 2020 . Traugott Bautz . . de . 1,2 . 12-13 . 2024-03-17 . 2024-03-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240317022723/https://content.bautz.de/auskunft/leseprobe.pdf . bot: unknown .
  4. Web site: Timpe-Bautz . Uta . 2022 . BAUTZ, Traugott - BBKL . subscription . 19 March 2024 . . Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH . de.