Arno Lehmann

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Arno Lehmann (born May 23, 1901 in Dresden ; † April 21, 1984 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German missionary and professor of religious studies and missiology .

Life

After studying at the seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Leipzig , Lehmann worked in southern India from 1926 to 1934. Due to an illness of his wife, he stayed in Germany after a first home leave and worked from 1934 to 1950 as a pastor and mission inspector in his home town of Dresden. In 1947 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the sivaitic piety of the Tamul literature of edification at the University of Leipzig . From 1950 until his retirement in 1966 he taught as a professor for religious studies and missiology at the theological faculty of the University of Halle , in addition to which he also represented the subjects of South Indian history and dravidology . During his time in Halle, because of his Lutheran confession, he adhered to the old Lutheran congregation there and not to the uniate regional church.

In 1966 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Concordia Seminary of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod in St. Louis .

Lehmann is the father of the journalist Johannes Lehmann and the evangelist Theo Lehmann . He died in 1984. His grave is in the Laurentius cemetery in Halle (Saale).

Lehmann was mainly concerned with studies on the religiosity of Hinduism and translations from Tamil ; in addition, he dealt with the history of the evangelical mission in India.

Bibliography (selection)

  • The hymns of Tayumanavar . Texts on the mysticism of God in Hinduism from Tamil translated by AL, Gütersloh 1935
  • The cross in the land of the lotus , Dresden 1936
  • The Sivaitic piety of the Tamul literature of edification . Based on our own source translations of the Tayumanavar and from the Devaram. Berlin 1947 (print version of the dissertation)
  • Church and Mission Today . A synodal lecture, 1956
  • It started in Tranquebar . The history of the first Protestant church in India, Berlin (2nd edition) 1956 (English Chennai [2nd edition] 2006)
  • The Art of the Young Churches , Berlin (2nd edition) 1957
  • The world of Hinduism , Christ and the world 8, Bad Salzuflen 1961
  • Karl Graul , the nineteenth century dravidologist , Tamil culture 11 (1964), 1-17
  • Afro-Asian Christian Art , Berlin (East) 1966; Constance 1967 (English Saint Louis 1969)
  • Danish-Halle Mission , in: Concise dictionary of the Christian world mission, London 1970, 159-160

as editor:

  • Old letters from India . Unpublished letters from Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (1706–1719), Berlin 1957
  • God's people in many countries . A reader with 99 texts from world Christianity, Erlangen 1981

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lehmann, Prof Dr. theol. hc Arno. In: Information on pastors and other active persons of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Prussia as well as predecessor churches of the SELK in the 19th and 20th centuries, ordained before 1945. Retrieved on January 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German missionary and professor for religious studies and missiology
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1984
Place of death Halle (Saale)