1. Hans Iwand's teachers were Erich Schaeder, Hans von Soden, and Rudolf Hermann.
11 Facts About Hans Iwand
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Hans Iwand earned his doctorate in 1924 and his habilitation in 1927, and he took his second theological examination in 1928.
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Hans Iwand was born in Schreibendorf, Silesia, German Empire, the son of pastor Otto Hans Iwand and his wife Lydia nee Herrmann.
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In 1927 Hans Iwand married Ilse Ehrhardt; the couple had five children.
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Hans Iwand is buried in the village of Beienrode, Konigslutter.
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In November 1934 Hans Iwand became professor of New Testament studies at the Herder Institute in Riga, Latvia.
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Hans Iwand was at this time a council member of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the principal author of Darmstadter Wort zum politischen Weg unseres Volkes, a statement on relations between church and state after the end of Nazism and during the tensions of the Cold War.
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Hans Iwand's archived documents from this time are now kept in the German Federal Archives in Koblenz.
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In 1956 he was co-founder of the German social democratic publication Blatter fur deutsche und internationale Politik, a monthly magazine covering German and international politics, and in 1958, together with Werner Schmauch and Czech theologian Josef Hromadka, Hans Iwand was a co-founder of the Christliche Friedenskonferenz in Prague.
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Hans Iwand here refers to the basic Protestant Reformation positions Sola fide and Sola gratia.
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Hans Iwand inspired and later edited the much-used Gottinger Predigtmeditationen.