Open Access Edition P. Tillich´s Correspondence 1887-1933

The aim of the project is the digital open-access and print edition by the publisher De Gruyter (Berlin/Boston) of Paul Tillichs correspondence, which has been scientifically indexed and edited text- critically in the project Edition of Paul Tillichs Correspondence (18871933) (I4857-G). Paul Tillich, one of the most important and influential Protestant theologians and philosophers of religion of the 20th century, taught at the theological faculties of Berlin and Marburg, the Technische Hochschule Dresden and the University of Frankfurt am Main after completing his studies, doctorate and habilitation. During the 1920s, he maintained close contacts with economists and political scientists, cultural and social scientists and philosophers. Tillich was one of the first non-Jewish university lecturers to be suspended by the National Socialists in April 1933. After initial difficulties, he found a new place of work in the USA, to which he emigrated in the same year, and went on to have an exemplary career in his new home. The digital edition project makes his diverse correspondence from 1887 to 1933 accessible for the first time and provides fundamental preparatory work for an indexing of his work in terms of intellectual history and the history of ideas. These sources will be integrated into the Tillich Online data volume published by De Gruyter, so that their optimal use is guaranteed. In this way, Tillich`s correspondence can be linked to his German texts so that users can switch between the letter edition and his writings and thus study the correspondence in the context of the work.