Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (20 December 1906, Brambauer, Lünen – 19 August 1979, Dortmund) was a Protestant theologian and writer.

[1] Bautz studied theology in Münster, Bethel (Bielefeld), Berlin and Tübingen.

In the Dortmund City and State Library as well as in the University and State Library of Münster, Bautz worked on the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), a reference work he founded, authored and edited.

[2] With the piano teacher Else Bautz, née Schlimm, whom he married in 1939, he had three children, a daughter and two sons.

His youngest child, Traugott Bautz [de] (1945–2020) continued the editorship of the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon from 1979.