Jan Milic Lochman

Jan Milič Lochman (born 3 April 1922 in Nové Město nad Metují, Czechoslovakia; died 21 January 2004 in Basel, Switzerland[1]) was a Czechoslovakian-Swiss Protestant theologian.

Life

Lochman came from a family with reformed tradition. He graduated from high school in Náchod in 1941. After the Czech part of Charles University was reopened in 1945, he studied theology and philosophy at the Comenius Protestant Theological Faculty (today's Protestant Theological Faculty of the Charles University) and received his doctorate in 1948. Afterwards he was ordained pastor of the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren. After a short time as a Preacher, he returned to the Comenius Faculty in Prague, where he habilitated and worked as a lecturer. From 1960 he taught there as a professor of philosophy and systematic theology.[2] After a year at Columbia University's Union Theological Seminary (New York City) he was appointed full professor of systematic theology in 1968 by the University of Basel.[3] In 1981 and 1982 he was rector of the University of Basel. From 1990 he was also able to give guest lectures at Czech and Slovak universities. He is professor emeritus from 1992.

Lochman has worked on ecumenical bodies for decades, particularly at the World Council of Churches. From 1968 to 1975 he was a member of the WCC central committee and executive committee, and from 1975 to 1991 he was a member of the WCC commission for faith and church order. He also worked for the World Alliance of Reformed Churches: from 1970 to 1982 as chairman of the theological department. His basic work was in the field of systematic and ecumenical theology.

Jan Milič Lochman was one of the co-founders of the Christian Peace Conference. At their third session in 1960, he worked on the preparation of the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly in Prague in 1961. There he headed the working group "Cold War" together with the German federal Wolfgang Schweitzer and the Hungarian M. Pálfy.

Honors

Literature
  • Das universale Gebet: Studien zum Vaterunser. Jan Milič Lochman gewidmet zum 70. Geburtstag von der Theologischen Fakultät Basel (= Theologische Zeitschrift. Jg. 48, H. 1). Reinhardt, Basel 1992.

References
  1. Theologe der Mehrstimmigkeit: Zum Tod von Jan Milic Lochman, NZZ Online, 24. Januar 2004, abgerufen am 25. April 2019.
  2. "Jan Milič Lochman". Philosophy Faculty of Masaryk-Universität. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  3. "Rektoren der Universität Basel". University of Basel. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
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