Franz Bibfeldt
Fictitious German theologian and academic in-joke at the University of Chicago.
Franz Bibfeldt is a made-up German theologian, originally a private joke among American scholars. He debuted in a fake footnote created by Concordia Seminary student Robert Howard Clausen. Most later Bibfeldt material came from the University of Chicago, which maintains a Donnelley Stool of Bibfeldt Studies.
Quick Facts
- First appearance
- Footnote in a term paper by Robert Howard Clausen at Concordia Seminary
- Birthdate and baptismal day
- November 1, 1897
- Key figure
- Martin Marty
- Doctoral thesis
- The Problem of the Year Zero
- Other works
- Both/And
- Either/Or and/or Both/And
- The Boys of Sumer
- Collected volume
- The Unrelieved Paradox: Studies in the Theology of Franz Bibfeldt (edited by Marty and Jerald C. Brauer)
Facts from the source article.
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