biography
pronunciation:
[teelikuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–86)
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| biography:
| Lutheran theologian and preacher, born in Barmen, W Germany. He was dismissed from his post at Heidelberg for criticizing the Nazis, and in 1944 contributed to a draft declaration on Church–State relations for a revolutionary government to follow a successful plot against Hitler. He was appointed professor of theology at Hamburg after World War 2, becoming dean of theology (1954), and university rector (1960). He wrote many devotional books, as well as major works on theology and ethics. |
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