Alexei A. Hackel

Alexej Alfred Hackel ( Russian Алексей (Альфред) Густавович Гаккель , Alexei Gustawowitsch Gakkel ; born September 17, 1892 in Saint Petersburg , † March 6, 1951 in Leiden ) was a Russian art historian and theologian .

Life

Hackel came from a Lutheran family. He attended the Reformed College and the University of St. Petersburg . He took part in the First World War as a soldier . In 1922 he left Russia and continued his studies in Heidelberg . During this time he converted to the Orthodox faith . He taught in Germany, France and the Netherlands, most recently at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden .

Hackel was considered "one of the best experts on icon theology".

Fonts

• The trinity in art. An iconographic study . Reuther & Reichard, Berlin 1931.
• The old Russian saint, the icon . Nijmwegen 1936.
• Church building as a symbol . In: Julius Tyciak, Georg Wunderle, Peter Werhun [Hrsg.]: The Christian East - Spirit and Shape . Pustet, Regensburg 1939.
• Dostojewskij en de "droom van een belachelijk mens" . JM Meulenhoff, Amsterdam 1950.
• Icons. Witnesses of Eastern Church art and piety . 5th edition. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 1956. (First edition under the title: Von Ostkirchlicher Kunst . Freiburg i. Br. 1943; translations into Spanish, French, English and Russian).
• Sergiy of Radonesh . 1314–1392 / Epiphany the Wise. Unabridged translationfrom the Old Church Slavonic translatedby Alexej A. Hackel. Regensberg, Münster 1956.

Web links

• Гаккель, Алексей (Альфред) Густавович . In: Биобиблиографический справочник Религиозная деятельность Русского Зарубежья (Russian).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christa Schaffer, Klaus Gamber: God the Lord, he appeared to us: the Christmas image of the early church and its arrangement in East and West ( supplement to the Studia patristica et liturgica , Volume 7). Pustet, Regensburg 1982, p. 8.