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Jan 31, 1901 Bad Laasphe, Free State of Prussia, Germany Died on 03 Sep 1981 (aged 80)
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About Wilhelm Pauck
- Wilhelm Pauck was born in Laasphe, in Westphalia, Germany [today, Bad Laasphe], January 31, 1901, and died in Palo Alto, California, September 3, 1981.
- A German-American church historian and historical theologian in the field of Reformation studies, Pauck's fifty-year teaching career reached from the University of Chicago and Union Theological Seminary, to Vanderbilt and Stanford universities.
- His impact was extended through frequent lectures and visiting appointments in the U.S.
- and Europe.
- Pauck served as a bridge between the historical-critical study of Protestant theology at the University of Berlin and U.S.
- universities, seminaries, and divinity schools.
- Combining high critical acumen with a keen sense of the drama of human history, in his prime Pauck was considered the Dean of historical theology in the United States.
- In the course of his career he became associated with Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich as friend, colleague, and confidant.
