Philipp Adam Christoph Vielhauer (Bali, Cameroon

Bali, Cameroon

Bali is a town and commune in Cameroon, lying west of Bamenda. It has a population of 32,000 . Formerly the centre of a kingdom, it is known for its palace and its regular festival....

 3 December 1914- Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

 23 December 1977) was a German Lutheran pastor, and scholar of early Christianity

Early Christianity

Early Christianity is generally considered as Christianity before 325. The New Testament's Book of Acts and Epistle to the Galatians records that the first Christian community was centered in Jerusalem and its leaders included James, Peter and John....

 and the New Testament Apocrypha

New Testament apocrypha

The New Testament apocrypha are a number of writings by early Christians that claim to be accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives. These writings often have links with books regarded as "canonical"...

. He is notable for having been the first German scholar to recognise quotes of Pauline epistles

Pauline epistles

The Pauline epistles, Epistles of Paul, or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen New Testament books which have the name Paul as the first word, hence claiming authorship by Paul the Apostle. Among these letters are some of the earliest extant Christian documents...

 in the Book of Acts.

Philipp Vielhauer was born in Cameroon to Rev. (later Dr.) Gustav Adolf and April Vielhauer, a missionary couple of the Basel Mission. Adolf Vielhauer had already been resident in Cameroon for 20 years. His mother died in Cameroon in 1925.

He was ordained by his father on 11 June 1936 in the Lutherhaus at Karlsruhe-Durlach. As someone who had already participated in the Bekennende Kirche movement at University, as a pastor he refused to sign a document supporting the Nazi regime in 1937 and lost his stipend at Baden

Baden

Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany....

. Though he found a position at the Lutheran church in Stuttgart

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

-Untertürkheim from 1935-1941. He was drafted in 1941 and severely wounded in Toropets

Toropets

Toropets is a town and the administrative center of Toropetsky District of Tver Oblast, Russia, located where the Toropa River enters Lake Solomeno. Population: -History:...

, Russia in 1944.

Vielhauer taught briefly at University of Göttingen 1947-1949, then at the University of Bonn

University of Bonn

The University of Bonn is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number...

 from 1950 till his death in 1977

Publications

• Aufsätze, Vol.1 1965, Vol.2 1979
• Zum "Paulinismus" der Apostelgeschichte (1950, English translation in Keck and Martyn, Studies in Luke-Acts, 1966) made the important point that the author of Acts knew at least some of the letters of Paul.
• Geschichte der Urchristlichen Literatur (1975)
• Jewish-Christian Gospels in Hennecke and Schneemelcher's New Testament Apocrypha.