Books By Christoph Rau - Author

CHRISTOPH RAU was born in 1928 in Gross Naundorf, Kreis Pulsnitz (Oberlausitz) in Germany and grew up in a Lutheran vicarage. He read theology in Berlin and Rostock, trained in music in Leipzig and finally as a priest of The Christian Community in Stuttgart. For decades he researched the structure of the Gospels, publishing the results in monographs on Matthew, Mark and John (Stuttgart 1972) and a comprehensive work, Die Vier um den Einen (Bochum 2008), on the four Gospels and their authors. He co-edited the German translations of the New Testament by Emil Bock (1980) and Heinrich Ogilvie (1996) and edited the literary estate of Michael Bauer in five volumes (Stuttgart 1985-97) also writing his biography, Michael Bauer und seine Lebensbegegnung mit Friedrich Rittelmeyer (Dornach 1995).