Albrecht Alt

Who was Albrecht Alt?

Albrecht Alt, was a leading German Protestant theologian.

Eldest son of a Lutheran minister, he completed high school in Ansbach and studied theology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen and the University of Leipzig. From 1907 to 1908 he was a candidate for the office of Lecturer at Munich Predigerseminar. In 1908 he was a scholarship holder of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology of the Holy Land in Jerusalem and undertook his first Palestine journey. In the same year he became a supervisor of the theological College in Greifswald. In 1909 he wrote Israel and Egypt as part of his Doctorate at the University of Greifswald.

In 1912 he became an extraordinary professor in Greifswald, and in 1914 was named by Bernhard Duhm as a Professor at the University of Basel. During the First World War he served as a Leader in the Cartography Department of the German Eastern Army. After the war he was again appointed a professor in Basel, and in 1920 Provost at the Evangelical Redeemer Church in Jerusalem.