Hans Kosmala

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Swedish Theological Institute in the Thabor house of Conrad Schick , Jerusalem

Hans Kosmala , originally Johannes Karl Adolf Kosmala (born September 30, 1903 in Breslau , † April 24, 1981 in Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire ) was a German-British theologian.

Hans Kosmala was the son of a master tailor and originally studied economics. In 1935 he took over the management of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum in Leipzig. Because of the prevailing National Socialism in the German Reich, he moved the institute to Vienna that same year, where he was able to continue teaching in the house of the Swedish Israel Mission . After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, Kosmala emigrated to Great Britain via Sweden in 1939, which also ended the Institute's activities for the time being. It was provisionally rebuilt in England in 1943. In 1948 the IJD was re-established at the University of Münster and incorporated into the Evangelical Faculty there.

Together with the head of the Israel mission, Göte Hedenquist, Kosmala published the magazine Out of Two Worlds from 1936 to 1938 .

1947 Kosmala became the pastor of the Presbyterian Church of England ordained , and on 21 June 1949 he received British citizenship. From 1951 to 1971 he was director of the Svenska teologiska institutet in Jerusalem. He retired in Gloucestershire , Great Britain.

Works

  • The Jew in the Christian world. London: Student Christian Movement Press 1942
  • Hebrews, Essenes, Christians: Studies on the Prehistory of the Early Christian Annunciation. Leiden: Brill 1959 (Studia post-biblica 1)
  • Studies, Essays and Reviews: Old Testament. Leiden: Brill 1978 ISBN 9789004054592
  • Studies, Essays and Reviews: New Testament. Leiden: Brill 1978 ISBN 9789004054615

literature

  • Gillis Gerleman (ed.): Festschrift Hans Kosmala. (Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute 9) Leiden: Brill 1974
  • Ulf Carmerud: Refugees or Returnees: European Jews, Palestinian Arabs and the Swedish Theological Institute in Jerusalem around 1948 (Studia Missionalia Svecana 110) ISSN  1404-9503 , Uppsala 2010, ISBN 978-91-506-2145-7

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Austrian Coordination Committee for Christian-Jewish Cooperation, about Hans Kosmala (1903-1981) ( Memento from October 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Homepage of the institute: History of the IJD ; Retrieved September 7, 2013
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 38697, HMSO, London, 23 August 1949, p. 4077 ( PDF , accessed on 10 October 2013, English).
personal data
SURNAME Kosmala, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kosmala, Johannes Karl Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1981
Place of death Compton Abdale, Gloucestershire