Alfred Jeremias

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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

  1. ↑ cf. Käte Hamburger: Thomas Mann's Biblical Work. Frankfurt am Main 1984, pp. 131-132.
  2. ↑ 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

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.

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personal data
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