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Georg Buchwald
1859–1947
A German Protestant theologian and church historian, he devoted much of his life to studying Martin Luther and the Reformation. His work grew out of years spent as a pastor, teacher, and superintendent in Saxony, where archival discoveries helped shape his writing.
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Die evangelische Kirche im Jahrhundert der Reformation
by Georg Buchwald
About the author
Born in Großenhain, Saxony, in 1859, Georg Apollo Buchwald became an evangelical theologian whose career joined church ministry with historical research. He worked as a teacher in Zwickau, later served in Leipzig, and eventually became superintendent in Rochlitz.
Buchwald is especially remembered as a Luther scholar and church historian. Sources describe him as a careful researcher who made important finds in archives, particularly in Zwickau, and turned them into books and studies on Luther, the Reformation, and the history of the German church.
For listeners interested in older religious and historical writing, his work offers a window into how early modern Protestant history was studied in Germany around the turn of the twentieth century. He died in 1947, leaving behind a substantial body of theological and historical scholarship.