Alfred Jeremias
Alfred Jeremias (born February 21, 1864 in Markersdorf near Chemnitz, † January 11, 1935 in Leipzig ) was a German religious historian and ancient orientalist .
Life
Jeremias was a student of Franz and Friedrich Delitzsch ; In 1886 he received his doctorate in the latter with a reworking of the Ištar's journey into hell , which he published as part of the 1887 book The Babylonian-Assyrian Concepts of Life after Death . In 1891 he submitted the first complete German translation of the Gilgamesh epic . From 1890 until the end of his life, Jeremias was pastor at the Luther Church in Leipzig; he also completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1905, where he worked as a private lecturer, and in 1922 he became a non-scheduled associate professor for the history of religion. In 1905 the University of Leipzig and in 1914 the University of Groningen awarded him an honorary theological doctorate .
In his numerous and well-read works he campaigned for the dissemination and evaluation of ancient oriental research results - especially in the theological area of Bible exegesis - and was considered, alongside Hugo Winckler, to be one of the main representatives of the pan-Babylonian school . So-called Panbabylonism claims a unified ancient oriental mythology, which is based on the Bible in particular .
His work The Old Testament in the Light of the Old Orient from 1904 had a decisive influence on Thomas Mann's novels by Joseph . His later work on the history of religion or new editions of older works were no longer fully appreciated in Assyriology .
Since his studies (winter 1883/84) Jeremias was a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli (now the German Choir ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Käte Hamburger: Thomas Mann's Biblical Work. Frankfurt am Main 1984, pp. 131-132.
- ↑ Complete directory of the Paulines from summer 1822 to summer 1938, Leipzig 1938, page 83
Fonts
- Izdubar-Nimrod. An old Babylonian hero legend. Leipzig 1891 ( digitized ).
- Hell and Paradise with the Babylonians. Leipzig 1900.
- The Old Testament in the light of the Old Orient. Leipzig 1904, 4th edition 1930.
- Handbook of the ancient oriental spiritual culture. Berlin 1913, 2nd edition 1929.
- Germanic piety. Leipzig 1928.
- The cosmos of Sumer (= The Ancient Orient. Volume 32, Issue 1). Leipzig 1932.
literature
- Reinhard G. Lehmann: Jeremias, Alfred Karl Gabriel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 3, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-035-2 , Sp. 43-49.
- Obituaries
- E. Weidner, In: Archive for Orient Research, Vol. 10 (1935/36), pp. 195–196.
- W. Baumgartner, In: Zeitschrift für Assyriologie Vol. 43 (1936), pp. 299-301.
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Jeremias in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alfred Jeremias in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Overview of Alfred Jeremias' courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1905 to summer semester 1914)
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SURNAME | Jeremias, Alfred |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German historian of religion and Assyriologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1864 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Markersdorf near Chemnitz |
DATE OF DEATH | January 11, 1935 |
Place of death | Leipzig |