Peter Maser
German church historian, archaeologist and theologian
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- Bachelors Theology University of Tübingen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peter Maser is a German protestant church historian. Life Peter Maser was born in Berlin at the height of the Second World War. He grew up at Bad Kösen in the Soviet occupation zone, relaunched in October 1949 as the Soviet sponsored German Democratic Republic . His mother fled from Berlin during the closing months of the war in order to escape the bombardment of the city and he became separated from her. Identified as a war orphan he was adopted by Lorenz and Elisabeth-Charlotte Bertheau: their views in many ways provided the intellectual basis for his own adult life. Lorenz Bertheau was a protestant pastor between 1925 and 1963 and during the Nazi years a member of the Confessing Church. He was driven by opposition to the idea of totalitarian government, and under the East German one-party regime was twice imprisoned. Peter Maser attended the local secondary school till 1957 and was then sent to the Landesschule Pforta, a former monastery in the hills between Erfurt and Leipzig, and in recent centuries chiefly notable as a prestigious German public boarding school for academically gifted children. However, he was excluded from the school "on political ground" after two years. He had organised a school visit to attend the Christmas Oratorio in nearby Naumburg Cathedral. In the context of the frequently tense relationship between church and state, this was seen as an inappropriate interpretation of his responsibilities as "Kulturbeauftragter" . He then attended a church "pre-seminary" in Naumburg until he was able to progress to university in 1962.
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