Andreas Angerstorfer

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Andreas Angerstorfer (born October 15, 1948 in Straubing ; † July 11, 2012 in Regensburg ) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and Judaist .

Life

Andreas Angerstorfer was born in Straubing and graduated with a high school diploma. He then attended the Regensburg seminary . He left the seminary and studied in sequence at the local university theology and history. In 1977 he completed his dissertation on The Creator God of the Old Testament .

Andreas Angerstorfer has been a research assistant at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg since 1973 and taught Greek, Semitic languages ​​and Jewish studies . He was considered a specialist in the Jewish history of the city of Regensburg and worked on a variety of projects to document Jewish cemeteries and gravestones. Angerstorfer was involved in the board of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Regensburg for the Jewish-Christian dialogue and in the fight against right-wing radicalism .

Fonts

  • The Creator God of the Old Testament. Origin and development of meaning of the Hebrew term bara (bara) "create" (= Regensburg Studies on Theology, Volume 20). Lang, Frankfurt am Main [a. a.] 1979, ISBN 3-261-02703-7 , also: Dissertation, University of Regensburg, 1977
  • Hebrew sources on the Christian and Jewish belief in witches in Bavaria at the beginning of the 13th century, in: Negotiations of the historical association for Upper Palatinate and Regensburg, 133.1993, pp. 17-28, digitized: [ [1] ].
  • together with Annemarie Dengg: Right structures in Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria. Bayernforum Munich 2005.
  • together with Annemarie Dengg: Sterilization policy under the swastika. Forced sterilization in Regensburg and in Upper Palatinate / Lower Bavaria. Evangelisches Bildungswerk, Regensburg 1999, ISBN 3-00-003854-X
  • together with Jutta Dresken-Weiland and Andreas Merkt: Heaven, Paradise, Shalom Death and Beyond in Christian and Jewish funerary inscriptions from antiquity (= manual on the history of death in early Christianity and its environment. Volume 1). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2325-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary of the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Regensburg from July 2012 (last call December 2013)
personal data
SURNAME Angerstorfer, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian and Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Straubing
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2012
Place of death regensburg