Carl Stange

Carl Stange (7 March 1870 in Hamburg – 5 December 1959 in Göttingen) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher. In his work, he mainly dealt with issues of ethics and the philosophy of religion.

He studied theology, history and philosophy at the universities of Halle, Göttingen, Leipzig and Jena, obtaining his habilitation for systematic theology in 1895 at Halle. In 1903 he became an associate professor at the University of Königsberg, and during the following year, was named a full professor of systematic theology at the University of Greifswald, where in 1911/12 he served as university rector. In 1912 he was appointed professor of systematic and practical theology at the University of Göttingen.

In 1932 he was named abbot at the Kloster Bursfelde. He was founder (1909) and editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie.