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Paul Tillich, (born, Aug. 20, 1886, Starzeddel, Brandenburg, Ger.—died Oct. 22, 1965, Chicago, Ill., U.S.), German-born U.S. Protestant theologian. He studied at Berlin, Tübingen, and Halle and was a chaplain with the German army during World War I. He taught successively at Marburg, Dresden, and Frankfurt am Main.
Paul Tillich - Nazi Germany, Theology, Existentialism: Tillich’s passionate concern for freedom made him an early critic of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement, and in retaliation he was barred from German universities in 1933—the first non-Jewish academician “to be so honoured,” as he wryly put it.
Since his death in 1965, Paul Tillich has continued to interest and excite the minds and hearts of both scholars and religious seekers. Born in Germany in 1886, young Paulus, as he was called in German, was destined to a career as an academic scholar and an ordained minister in his church.
Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, Christian socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.
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May 29, 2018 · TILLICH, PAUL JOHANNES (1886 – 1965), German-American theologian and philosopher, was born in Starzeddel (now Starosiedle, Poland), in Brandenburg, Germany, on August 20, 1886, the son of a Lutheran pastor.
Paul Johannes Tillich (1886-1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich, along with contemporary Karl Barth, is considered by many as one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century. Tillich was born in Germany, in 1886.
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Paul Johannes Tillich (1886–1965), a Protestant Christian theologian and philosopher of religion, was born in the village of Starzeddel, East Prussia, a province of the German Empire where his father, Johannes Oskar Tillich (1857–1937), was a conservative Lutheran minister and church administrator.
