Hermann Goltz

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Gottfried Hermann Goltz (born April 1, 1946 in Gera ; † December 9, 2010 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian and Eastern church scholar .

life and work

Hermann Goltz grew up in Görlitz. There he passed the Abitur and learned oboe at the folk music school. He decided to study theology, which he began in Halle (Saale) in 1964. He received his doctorate in 1972 under Konrad Onasch with a thesis on the Corpus Areopagitum . In 1975 he was ordained a Protestant pastor in Halle after passing the 1st and 2nd theological exams . In 1979 he completed his habilitation after a manuscript research stay in Russia in 1978 with an investigation into Slavic-patristic literature. In 1987 he was appointed to the theological faculty in Heidelberg , in the same year he went to Halle as an associate professor , where he was appointed full professor for denominational studies of the Orthodox churches at the theological faculty in 1992 . From 1988 to 1993 he was also head of the studies department of the Conference of European Churches in Geneva. In 1982 Goltz founded the Johannes Lepsius Archive, which he directed, and in 1998, together with other German and Armenian scientists, the MESROP Center for Armenian Studies at Leucorea (since 2006 at the University of Halle).

Goltz researched, taught and published on theology, art and culture of the Orthodox Churches, in particular on the Greek-Slavic Orthodoxy and the Armenian Church . Together with the Armenian scientist Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan he translated the Armenian hymnarium " Sharaknotz ", a central source for understanding the Eastern Christian civilizations. For his work on Armenology and Armenian culture, Goltz received various awards from the Armenian state. In 2007 he was at the Yerevan State University for an honorary doctorate doctorate.

Hermann Goltz was a member of the board of trustees of the Evangelical Konvikt Halle and from autumn 2008 until his death Ephorus of this house. He took over the office from the founding ephorus Hermann von Lips , who had held it for a year after his retirement in 2007.

criticism

Wolfgang Gust accused Goltz of creating myths regarding Johannes Lepsius and misappropriating the federal government's funds. Gust also criticized the fact that the Lepsius research, despite its financial resources, did not check the manipulative edition of files published by Lepsius on the genocide of the Armenians , as it would have been the task of a real Lepsius research. Gust made the correction himself. In a petition to the Bundestag, Lepsius was also accused of an anti-Semitic attitude. Gust wrote about it too. Goltz assessed the corresponding quotes as "taken out of context".

Honors (selection)

Memorial plaque on Schleiermacherstraße 19

Goltz was an honorary doctor of the University of Yerevan . He was awarded the Mesrop Order of the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia ( Antelias near Beirut) and the Sahak and Mesrop order of the Catholicos of all Armenians ( Etchmiadzin ). In November 2012, a memorial plaque for Hermann Goltz was unveiled on his long-term home in Schleiermacherstraße in Halle (Saale).

Works (selection)

  • Editor, translator and commentator: Akathistos. Hymns of the Eastern Church . Leipzig 1988.
  • Editor and co-author: A Thousand Years of Baptism of Russia. Russia in Europe. Leipzig 1993.
  • The saved treasure of the Armenians from Cilicia. With photos by Klaus E. Göltz. Wiesbaden 2000.
  • (Translation from French and adaptation) Jean-Michel Thierry: Armenia in the Middle Ages . Regensburg 2002, Schnell and Steiner, ISBN 3-7954-1435-0 .
  • Editor and co-author: Germany, Armenia and Turkey 1895-1925. Documents and journals from the Dr. Johannes Lepsius Archive at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . 3 parts, Munich 1998-2004, ISBN 3-598-34406-6 .
  • Editor, Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan: Armenology in Germany: Contributions to the First German Armenologist Day (Studies on Oriental Church History, Vol. 35). Münster 2005, Lit-Verlag, ISBN 3-8258-8610-7 .
  • Everything from tsarina and devil. European images of Russia from four centuries. The entire Rovinsky materials for a Russian iconography . 2 volumes. Preface by Fritz Pleitgen , Cologne 2006, ISBN 3832177256 .
  • Editor, Christopher Hann : Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective . Berkeley 2010, University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-26056-6
  • Editor, Gelian Michajlovic Prochorov: The Corpus des Dionysios Areiopagites in the Slavic translation by Starec Isaija: (14th century) = Dionisij Areopagit v slavjanskom perevode starca Isaii (in collaboration with the Russian National Library St. Petersburg), Weiher-Verlag, Freiburg / Breisgau 2010 and 2011.
    • Volume 1. Facsimile of manuscript No. 46 from the AF Hilferding collection of the Russian National Library 2010, XIII, 683 pages, ISBN 978-3-921940-51-8 .
    • Volume 2. Text edition of manuscript No. 46 from the AF Hilferding collection of the Russian National Library 2011, XVIII p., 328 sheets, ISBN 978-3-921940-52-5 .
    • Volume 3: Reconstruction of the Greek translation , 2011, XXVI, 776 pp. ISBN 978-3-921940-53-2 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Hermann Goltz: Obituary notice . In: Sächsische Zeitung on December 18, 2010
  2. ^ The German theologian Johannes Lepsius: A great humanist or anti-democrat and anti-Semite? . Interview from September 15, 2008 with the journalist, publicist and genocide researcher Wolfgang Gust
  3. ↑ Obituary of the Central Council of Armenians: Armenians mourn Prof. Dr. Hermann Goltz . December 14, 2010, www.zentralrat.org
  4. ^ Obituary of the theological faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  5. ↑ See report on the unveiling: Memorial plaque for Professor Hermann Goltz November 26, 2012 . In: Hallespektrum, November 26, 2012.
  6. ↑ The book was presented at the Lebanese book fair in 2001, see the report by Hermann Goltz in the science journal of the MLU Halle
  7. ↑ Review of the accompanying exhibition by Dieter Bartetzko : Orient and Occident: Saved from the river: Halle shows the Armenian treasure . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 27, 2000, page 55

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personal data
SURNAME Goltz, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goltz, Gottfried Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and Eastern church scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Gera
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 2010
Place of death Halle (Saale)