# Julius Smend

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**Julius Smend** (10 May 1857 – 7 June 1930) was a German [theologian](/source/Theologian) born in [Lengerich](/source/Lengerich,_Westphalia), [Westphalia](/source/Westphalia). He was a brother to theologian [Rudolf Smend](/source/Rudolf_Smend) (1851–1913) and the father of [musicologist](/source/Musicologist) [Friedrich Smend](/source/Friedrich_Smend).

He studied theology in [Bonn](/source/University_of_Bonn), [Halle](/source/University_of_Halle) and [Göttingen](/source/University_of_G%C3%B6ttingen), receiving his [ordination](/source/Ordination) in 1881. Afterwards he worked as an auxiliary minister in Bonn, and in 1885 became a minister in [Seelscheid](/source/Neunkirchen-Seelscheid). In 1891 he taught classes at the [seminary](/source/Seminary) in [Friedberg](/source/Friedberg,_Hesse), and two years later was appointed professor of practical theology at the [University of Strasbourg](/source/University_of_Strasbourg).

In 1896 with [Friedrich Spitta](/source/Friedrich_Spitta) (1852–1924), he founded *Monatsschrift für Gottesdienst und kirchliche Kunst*, a monthly magazine of worship and religious art. With Spitta, he was a primary representative of the *Ältere liturgische Bewegung* (Older Liturgical Movement), a theological entity that was created by Smend at the [Thomaskirche in Strasbourg](/source/St._Thomas,_Strasbourg). In 1914 he was co-founder of the Protestant theological faculty at [Münster](/source/University_of_M%C3%BCnster) ([rector](/source/Rector_(academia)), 1919/20).[1]

His best written work was *Die evangelischen deutschen Messen bis zu Luthers deutscher Messe* ("The [Protestant](/source/Protestant) Masses up until [Luther](/source/Martin_Luther)'s German Mass"; 1896).

## References

- [English translation](https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/s/smend_j.shtml&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=5&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Smend,%2BJulius%2522%2B1857%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG)

1. [Smend, Julius Wilhelm Hermann](https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd119424584.html#ndbcontent) In: [Neue Deutsche Biographie](/source/Neue_Deutsche_Biographie)

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