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Paul Tillich's Life and Times: A Timeline
Compiled by Justin Pearl (Boston University, Fall 2010)
| Year | World Events | Personal Life | Professional Life | Family Life | Publications |
| 1886 | Birth, August 20, Starzeddel, Germany | ||||
| 1888 | Sister, Johanna Tillich, Born | ||||
| 1893 | Sister, Elizabeth Tillich, Born | ||||
| 1898-1901 | Attends Humanistic Gymnasium in Königsburg | ||||
| 1901-1904 | Attends Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin | ||||
| 1902 | Confirmed, March 23 | ||||
| 1903 | Mother's Death, September 24 | ||||
| 1904 | Studies at University of Berlin | ||||
| 1905 | Studies at University of Tübingen | ||||
| 1905-1907 | Studies at University of Halle | ||||
| 1906-1907 | First Charge at Wingolf Fellowship | ||||
| 1909 | Passes Church Board Examination | ||||
| Assistant to Pastor Klein | |||||
| 1911 | Receives Doctor of Philosophy degree, Breslau | ||||
| Vicar at Nauen | |||||
| Passes Licentiate examination | |||||
| 1912 | Receives degree of Licentiate of Theology | ||||
| Passes second church board examination | |||||
| Ordained in Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Prussian Union | |||||
| 1912-1914 | Assistant Preacher in Moabit district of Berlin | ||||
| 1914 | Marries Margarethe Wever, September 28 | ||||
| World War I Begins | |||||
| 1914-1918 | Army Chaplain, WWI, Western Front | ||||
| 1918 | Awarded Iron Cross | ||||
| Army Chaplain in Spandau, Berlin | |||||
| 1919 | World War I Ends, Treaty of Versailles | ||||
| 1919-1924 | Privatdozent, University of Berlin | ||||
| First public lecture "On the Idea of a Theology of Culture" | |||||
| 1919-1920 | Helps found religious socialist circle in Berlin | ||||
| 1920 | Sister Johanna's death, January 5 | ||||
| League of Nations Established | |||||
| 1921 | Divorces Margarethe Weaver, February 22 | ||||
| Extreme Inflation in Germany | |||||
| 1923 | Hitler attemps coup and is imprisoned | ||||
| The System of the Sciences | |||||
| 1924 | Marries Hannah Werner Gottschow, March 22 | ||||
| 1924-1925 | Associate Professor of Theology, University of Marburg | ||||
| 1925 | Hitler publishes Mein Kampf | The Religious Situation | |||
| 1925-1929 | Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dresden Institute of Technology | ||||
| 1927-1929 | Adjunct Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Leipzig | ||||
| 1929 | Joins Social Democrat Party | ||||
| 1929-1933 | Founder and Editor of Neue Blatter fur Socialismus | Professor of Philosophy, University of Frankfurt am Main | |||
| 1933 | Hitler becomes Chancellor | Suspended by Nazi Government | The Socialist Decision | ||
| Concentration camps established | Dismissed from University of Frankfurt am Main | ||||
| Arrives in New York City | |||||
| 1933-1934 | Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, Columbia University | ||||
| 1933-1937 | Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary | ||||
| 1934 | Anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws Established in Germany | Joins Theological Discussion Group | |||
| 1936 | Founder and First Chairman of "Self-Help for Emigres" | On The Boundary | |||
| The Interpretation of History | |||||
| 1937 | Japan Invades China | Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology, Union Seminary | Father Dies in Berlin | ||
| 1938 | Nazi Germany Annexes Austria | ||||
| 1939 | World War II Begins | ||||
| 1940-1955 | Professor of Philosophical Theology, Union Seminary | ||||
| 1940 | Becomes American Citizen | ||||
| ~1941 | Joins Philosophy Club, Columbia University | ||||
| 1941 | Japan attacks Pearl Harbor | ||||
| Manhattan Project begins | |||||
| 1942-1944 | Radio Broadcast to German people, "Voice of America" | ||||
| 1944 | D-Day, Jun. 6 | Founder and Chairman of Council for a Democratic Germany | |||
| 1945 | Germany surrenders | ||||
| United Nations founded | |||||
| Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |||||
| Japan surrenders | |||||
| 1946 | Nuremberg Trials | Buys East Hampton House | |||
| 1948 | Berlin Airlift begins | Visits Post-WWII Germany | The Protestant Era | ||
| The Shaking of the Foundations | |||||
| 1949 | NATO founded | ||||
| Soviet Union develops nuclear bomb | |||||
| 1950 | Korean War Begins | ||||
| 1951 | WWII officially ends | Systematic Theology, Volume I | |||
| 1952 | The Courage to Be | ||||
| 1953-1954 | Gifford Lectures, University of Aberdeen, Scotland | ||||
| 1954 | Love, Power, and Justice: Ontological Analysis and Ethical Applications | ||||
| 1955 | Retires from Union Theological Seminary | Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality | |||
| The New Being | |||||
| 1955-1962 | University Professor, Harvard University | ||||
| 1956 | Visits Greece | ||||
| 1957 | Systematic Theology, Volume II | ||||
| Dynamics of Faith | |||||
| 1959 | Theology of Culture | ||||
| Gesammelte Werke, Volume I | |||||
| 1960 | Visits Japan | ||||
| 1961 | Berlin Wall Built | ||||
| 1962 | Retires from Harvard | ||||
| 1962-1965 | Nuveen Professor of Theology, Chicago University Divinity School | ||||
| 1963 | John F. Kennedy assassinated | Dedicates Paul Tillich Park, New Harmony, Indiana | Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions | ||
| Morality and Beyond | |||||
| The Eternal Now | |||||
| Systematic Theology, Volume III | |||||
| 1965 | US troops sent to Vietnam | Dies of a heart attack, Billings Hospital, Chicago, October 22 | Last lecture: "The Significance of the History of Religions for the Systematic Theologian" | Ultimate Concern: Tillich in Dialogue | |
| 1966 | Final interment, New Harmony, Indiana, May 29 | My Search for Absolutes | |||
| 1970 | My Travel Diary 1936: Between Two Worlds | ||||
| 1973 | Rollo May publishes Paulus. A Personal Portrait of Paul Tillich | ||||
| 1974 | Hannah Tillich publishes From Time to Time | ||||
| 1976 | Wilhelm and Marion Pauck publish Paul Tillich: His Life and Thought, Volume I | ||||
| Hannah Tillich publishes From Place to Place | |||||
| 1987 | The Essential Tillich |
Sources
Pauck, Wilhelm & Marion. Paul Tillich: His Life and Thought, volume 1: Life. London: Collins, 1977.
Rosenberg, Jennifer. “History Timeline of the 20th Century: A Decade-by-decade Timeline.” About.com (accessed November 2, 2010).
“Paul Tillich: Biography and Systematic Theology I,” from The Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Modern Western Theology (accessed November 2, 2010).
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