Alexander Böhlig

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Alexander Böhlig (born September 2, 1912 in Dresden ; † January 25, 1996 ) was a German orientalist , Coptologist and Byzantine scholar .

Life

Alexander Böhlig studied Protestant theology and oriental languages at the Humboldt University in Berlin and received a doctorate ( PhD ) in 1934 at the Faculty for research on the Coptic Proverbientexten and in 1947 at the Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster . In 1951 he completed his habilitation at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in the field of philology of the Christian Orient . Then Alexander Böhlig received a call to the University of Halle at the seminar for Byzantine Studies .

After a trip to Egypt in 1963, he did not return to the GDR . He founded a seminar for languages ​​and cultures of the Christian Orient at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he taught until his retirement and researched until his death.

He was an internationally recognized expert on Coptic Studies , Gnosis, and especially Manichaeism . His wife Gertrud was a Byzantinist.

Gertrud and Alexander Böhlig Foundation

The Gertrud and Alexander Böhlig Foundation within the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft supports the subjects of Byzantine Studies and the Christian Orient. Every two years, the foundation awards a prize to young academics who work in the field of Christian-Oriental philology or byzantine studies.

The Alexander Böhlig Memorial Lecture is held annually in Halle in his honor. The speakers come from universities in Germany and abroad.

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