Horst Weigelt (born 1934 in Liegnitz) is a German Protestant theologian. From 1975 to 2002 he was Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg. His research focuses on the Reformation, Pietism and Enlightenment in the early modern period. He has also written specifically on Schwenkfelders.
From 1969 Weigelt worked as a private lecturer. Beginning in 1974, he lectured at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. In 1975 he received the chair for historical and systematic theology at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg and was also lecturer in Bavarian church history at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg. He retired in 2002.
Works
Pietismus-Studien. 1. Teil: Der spener-hallische Pietismus (Arbeiten zur Theologie II/4), Stuttgart 1965
Johann Kaspar Lavater. Leben, Werk und WirkungGöttingen 1991
(editor with Dietrich Meyer, Gustav Adolf Benrath, Ulrich Hutter-Wolandt and Ludwig Petry: Zur Geschichte der evangelischen Kirche in Schlesien München 1992
Johann Kaspar Lavater Reisetagebücher. Vol. 1. Tagebuch von der Studien- und Bildungsreise nach Deutschland 1763 und 1764 Göttingen 1997
Johann Kaspar Lavater Reisetagebücher. Vol. 2. Reisetagebuch nach Süddeutschland 1778 Reisetagebuch in die Westschweiz 1785 Brieftagebuch von der Reise nach Kopenhagen 1793 Göttingen 1997 ISBN9783525558614
Von Schwenckfeld bis Löhe: Aspekte aus der Geschichte evangelischer Theologie und Frömmigkeit in BayernNeustadt an der Aisch, 1999
Geschichte des Pietismus in Bayern Göttingen, 2001 ISBN9783525558249
Johannes Schwanhauser: Schriften und Predigten Neustadt an der Aisch 2010
Migration and Faith: The Migrations of the Schwenkfelders from Germany to America, Risks and Opportunities (Göttingen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017) ISBN9783647564357
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