Walter Beltz

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Walter Ernst Beltz (born April 25, 1935 in Ludwigslust ; † April 22, 2006 in Berlin ) was a religious scholar and orientalist .

Life

Walter Beltz's grave on the Tolkewitz urn grove

Walter Beltz studied theology , oriental studies and religious studies in Rostock , Greifswald and at the Humboldt University in Berlin . This was followed by a job at the Evangelical Academy Berlin-Brandenburg and in 1966 his dissertation on the Kaleb traditions in the Old Testament . In 1970 he completed his habilitation thesis on the Adam Apocalypse from Codex V of Nag Hammadi. Jewish building blocks in Gnostic systems at the Humboldt University.

Beltz was a member of the Christian Peace Conference and took part in the Second All-Christian Peace Assembly in Prague in 1964. He worked for many years in the Oriental and Classical Studies section and was an associate professor for general religious history at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In addition, he was editor of Halle's Contributions to Oriental Studies and a member of the PEN. Under his leadership, a group of seven scientists agreed to advance the processing of the documents of the Institutum Judaicum et Muhammedicum .

Beltz died in Berlin in 2006 and was buried in the Tolkewitz urn grove in Dresden.

Works (selection)

Beltz became known for his books such as God and the Gods (1974), Longing for Paradise (1979), The Myths of the Egyptians (1982) and Lexicon of Last Things (1993). Beltz was also the editor or co-editor of several volumes in the series Hallesche Contributions to Oriental Studies at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

  • God and the gods. Biblical mythology. (Series: Documentation, essay writing, literary studies ; Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1975, 3rd edition 1982)
  • The gate of the gods. Ancient Near Eastern Mythology. (Buchverlag Der Morgen, Berlin 1978, 2nd edition 1982, 3rd edition 1986)
  • Longing for paradise. Quran mythology. (Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1979)
  • The myths of the Koran. The key to Islam. (Claassen, Düsseldorf 1980)
  • The myths of the Egyptians. (Claassen, Düsseldorf 1982)
  • The ships of the gods. Egyptian mythology. (Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1987)
  • Christ and the Christians. Mythology of the ancient churches. (Book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1990)
  • Lexicon of Last Things. (Pattloch Verlag, Augsburg 1993)

Festschrift for Beltz

  • Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan (Ed.): Language, Myths, Mythicisms: Festschrift for Walter Beltz for his 65th birthday on April 25, 2000 , Halle (Saale): Inst. Für Orientalistik 2004 (3 volumes)

literature

  • Julius H. Schoeps : Walter Beltz: April 25, 1935 - April 22, 2006 , in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 59, 2 (2007), p. 183 (obituary; Beltz has published 12 articles in the ZRGG)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Walter Beltz's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ see data in the DNB at http://d-nb.info/970821581
personal data
SURNAME Beltz, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beltz, Walter Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 2006
Place of death Berlin