List of Germans - Theologians, Saints, Beatified Persons

Theologians, Saints, Beatified Persons

See also List of German popes

  • Heinrich Abeken (1809–1872), theologian
  • Johannes Agricola (1494–1566), Protestant reformer
  • Albertus Magnus, medieval philosopher and theologian
  • Eusebius Amort (1692–1775)
  • Pope Benedict XVI, a.k.a. Joseph Ratzinger (born 1927)
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), Theologian
  • Johannes Bugenhagen (1485–1558) Protestand Reformer of Pomerania and Denmark, Theologian
  • Rudolf Bultmann
  • Alfred Delp
  • Johann Eck (1486–1543)
  • Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824)
  • Matthias Faber (1586–1653)
  • Adolf Harnack (1851–1930)
  • Hedwig of Andech (1174–1243)
  • Johann Gottfried Herder, poet, translator, philosopher and theologian
  • Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889–1977)
  • Clemens August Graf von Galen, beatified, cardinal
  • Adolph Kolping (1813–1865), beatified, priest
  • Hans Küng
  • Karl Lehmann
  • Martin Luther (1483–1546), of the Protestant Reformation
  • Philipp Melanchthon (1497–1560), Protestant Reformation
  • Moses Mendelssohn
  • Jürgen Moltmann (born 1926), theologian
  • Bernhard Philberth (born 1927), physicist, engineer, philosopher, theologian
  • Karl Rahner, theologian
  • Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834), theologian, philosopher
  • Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965), musician, physician, pastor, philosopher and theologian
  • Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003)
  • Edith Stein (1891–1942), saint, nun, victim of Holocaust
  • Carsten Peter Thiede (1952–2004), theologian, New Testament historian, chaplain
  • Helmut Thielicke, theologian
  • Paul Tillich, theologian, philosopher

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