Hans Lietzmann

Who was Hans Lietzmann?

Hans Lietzmann was a German theologian and church historian who was a native of Düsseldorf.

He initially studied in Jena, and continued his education in Bonn, where he was a student of Hermann Usener. In 1905 he was appointed professor of church history at the University of Jena, and in 1923 was a successor to Adolf von Harnack at the University of Berlin. In 1927 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and during his career obtained an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens. He died in Locarno, Switzerland on June 25, 1942.

Largely known for his work as a church historian and his research on the New Testament, Lietzmann was also an authority in the fields of archaeology, classical philology and papyrology.