Background
Willibald Beyschlag was born on the 5th of September, 1823 in Frankfurt, Darmstadt Government Region, Germany.
theologian university professor Member of the Prussian House of Lords
Willibald Beyschlag was born on the 5th of September, 1823 in Frankfurt, Darmstadt Government Region, Germany.
Willibald Beyschlag studied theology at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin, afterwards serving as an assistant pastor in Koblenz (1849), then as a pastor in Trier (1850) and during the following year, began working as a religious instructor in Mainz.
In 1856 Willibald Beyschlag became a court preacher in Karlsruhe, and four years later was appointed a professor of practical theology and New Testament exegesis at the University of Halle. He was the leader of the Evangelical Mittelpartei ("Middle Party"), and in 1876, with Albrecht Wolters, founded the Deutsch-evangelischen Blätter (a publication of the Mittelpartei in the Kirche der Altpreußischen Union). Because of the combatative nature of the magazine, he was once sued for libel.
Willibald Beyschlag was a leading supporter of the Vermittlungstheologie and was opposed to Chalcedonian Christology. Also, he stood for the rights of the laity, and believed in the autonomy of the church, leading him to be in favor of separation of church and state.