Julius Smend
Julius Smend (10 May 1857 – 7 June 1930) was a German
musicologist Friedrich Smend
.
He studied theology in
Halle and Göttingen, receiving his ordination in 1881. Afterwards he worked as an auxiliary minister in Bonn, and in 1885 became a minister in Seelscheid. In 1891 he taught classes at the seminary in Friedberg, and two years later was appointed professor of practical theology at the University of Strasbourg
.
In 1896 with
Thomaskirche in Strasbourg. In 1914 he was co-founder of the Protestant theological faculty at Münster (rector, 1919/20).[1]
His best written work was Die evangelischen deutschen Messen bis zu Luthers deutscher Messe ("The
Protestant Masses up until Luther
's German Mass"; 1896).
References
- Klaus-Gunther Wesseling (1995). "Smend, Julius". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 10. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 649–652.