Horst Weigelt

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rdf:langString Horst Weigelt (born 1934 in Liegnitz) is a German Protestant theologian. From 1975 to 2002 he was Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg. His research focuses on the Reformation, Pietism and Enlightenment in the early modern period. He has also written specifically on Schwenkfelders. After studying Protestant theology for four years at the University of Erlangen and the University of Tübingen, he passed the first theological examination in 1958 and the second in 1960. The following year he received his doctorate in Erlangen. In 1962 he was ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. From 1969 Weigelt worked as a private lecturer. Beginning in 1974, he lectured at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1975 he received the chair for historical and systematic theology at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg and was also lecturer in Bavarian church history at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. He retired in 2002.