Benedikt Schwank

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Benedikt Schwank OSB (born April 16, 1923 in Karlsruhe as Hans Schwank ; † October 14, 2016 in Beuron ) was a German Benedictine monk and professor of the New Testament and Biblical Archeology .

Life

Hans Schwank was the son of a medical family in Karlsruhe. After graduating from high school at Bismarck-Gymnasium Karlsruhe , he was obliged to do the Reich Labor Service . In the summer semester of 1941 he began studying biology at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , but was drafted into the Wehrmacht shortly afterwards . He was seriously wounded several times during frontline operations in Russia. His brother Bernhard fell in April 1945 and Hans Schwank, like his father, who had been hired as a military doctor, became a prisoner of war in France.

After returning from captivity, he joined the Benedictine Archabbey of Beuron in 1946 and was given the religious name Benedict . As a child he was in Beuron as early as 1929 and experienced the Archabbey with over 300 monks under Archabbot Raphael Walzer . He studied in Maria Laach , at the Benedictine University Sant'Anselmo in Rome and, after his ordination in 1952, at the Pontifical Biblical Institute , where he received his doctorate.

From 1955 to 2002 he taught as a professor for the New Testament and contemporary biblical history until it closed in 1968 at the Theological College in Beuron . Franz von Tattenbach SJ then brought him to the Jesuit University of Philosophy in Munich , where he taught until 2002. From 1975 to 1991 he also taught in the ecumenical theological academic year at the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem . In his work Schwank was able to build on the rich Beuron tradition of biblical, patristic and liturgical historical research and the contributions of his friars Alban Dold OSB, Athanasius Miller OSB and Bonifatius Fischer OSB.

Benedikt Schwank wandered through the landscapes of Galilee , Samaria , Judea , the Negev and large parts of the Schefela since the 1950s . He also traveled to the other countries of the Bible: Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, the stations of St. Paul and Tunisia. He photographed the farmers, shepherds and craftsmen at work, everyday scenes, plants and animals, including all plants in the Bible and animals in the Bible (as far as the species can be identified and are still found there today), traditional agricultural and domestic implements, Buildings and archaeological sites. His monk cell in Beuron contained tens of thousands of slides that he had taken between 1952 and 2004 - a unique documentation of a living environment that no longer exists in the 21st century. The “Benedikt Schwank Collection”, comprising almost 50,000 photographs, was digitized by the Seminar for Old Testament and Biblical Archeology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

From 1970 to 2005 he was also the chief editor of the Benedictine monthly magazine “ Erbe und Einsatz ” and headed the Beuron Biblical Days for many years. In 1966 and 1967 he worked out the Loccum guidelines together with Pastor Klaus Dietrich Fricke .

From 1971 to 1980 he conducted self-guided biblical journeys in Israel, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Tunisia, Greece, Turkey and Albania.

Fonts

Scientific and Spiritual Scriptures

  • For the new edition of “Contra Varimadum” according to the Codex Paris BNLat. 12217 . Diss.Pontificium Athenaeum Anselmianum, Rome, partial print: Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1960.
  • For the new edition of “Contra Varimadum” according to the Codex Paris BNLat. 12217 in the Corpus Christianorum Series Latina XC. In: Sacris Erudiri , ISSN  0771-7776 , Vol. 12 (1961), pp. 112-196.
  • Progress in the Exegesis of John? In: Erbe und Einsatz , Vol. 43 (1967), pp. 157-162.
  • The first letter of the apostle Peter . Patmos-Verlag, Düsseldorf, 4th edition 1986. ISBN 3-491-77120-X .
  • Images and parables of the Bible. Slides for teaching and image viewing. [Little realism about the Bible with well-founded commentary for practical use]
    • Folder I with eight booklets and foils: almond branch, fig tree, field, mustard seed, snake and scorpion, corner stone, fish, shepherd and herd. Beuron 2nd edition 1999
    • Folder II with eight booklets and transparencies: meat, lily of the field, olive tree, vine, bread, well, stone jug, potter. Beuron 1998
    • Folder III with eight booklets and foils: Paschal lamb, Torah scroll, house building, stonemason, Augustus, Antiochus, coins in the NT, small coin from Tiberias. Beuron 1999
    • Folder IV with eight transparencies in eight booklets: Prayer, Yoke, Plow, Threshing Sleigh, Mill, Source, Tiberius, Pontius Pilatus. Beuron 2000
  • Gospel according to John. Practical comment . EOS, Sankt Ottilien 3rd edition 2007. ISBN 978-3-8306-7270-8 .
  • In the beginning - the word. Beuronese introductions to the Sunday Readings Reading Year A . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 2016. ISBN 978-3-87071-342-3 .
  • In the beginning - the word. Beuronese introductions to the Sunday readings of the reading year B . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 2017. ISBN 978-3-87071-343-0 .
  • In the beginning - the word. Beuronese introductions to the Sunday Readings Reading Year C . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 2017. ISBN 978-3-87071-344-7 .

Biographical

  • He led me far. How I experienced the 20th century . EOS, Sankt Ottilien 2011. ISBN 978-3-8306-7442-9 . (Autobiography)

As editor

  • with Donatien de Bruyne and Johannes Fraipont: Florilegia biblica Africana saec. V .: Pseudo-Vigilii Thapsensis Opus Contra Varimadum. Pseudo-Augustini Solutiones diversarum quaestionum ab haereticis obiectarum. Testimonia de patre et filio et spiritu sancto. Incerti Auctoris Liber de trinitate (= Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina , Vol. 90). Typographi Brepols Editores Pontificii, Turnholti 1961, ISBN 2-503-00901-8 .

Photo database

literature

  • Gunda Brüske, Anke Haendler-Kläsener (eds.): Oleum laetitiae. Ceremony for Father Benedikt Schwank . Aschendorff, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-402-07504-0 . It also contains a complete list of the writings of Benedikt Schwank (up to 2002), pp. 20-25.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. RIP - P. Dr. Benedikt Hans Schwank OSB , Beuron Archabbey, accessed on October 21, 2016
  2. Andreas R. Batlogg SJ: “It led me into the distance. How I experienced the 20th century ” , Voices of the Time, accessed on October 21, 2016
  3. Benedikt Schwank: He led me far. How I experienced the 20th century . Sankt Ottilien 2011, pp. 156–165.
  4. Benedikt Schwank: He led me far. How I experienced the 20th century . Sankt Ottilien 2011, p. 193.
  5. Benedikt Schwank: How I read the scriptures in the course of my life . Lecture in Beuron at the 30th Theological Days, October 5, 2004.
  6. Benedikt Schwank: He led me far. How I experienced the 20th century . Sankt Ottilien 2011, pp. 179–190 and 232–240.
  7. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: Biblical-Archaeological Collection , accessed on August 29, 2018.
  8. Benedikt Schwank: He led me far. How I experienced the 20th century . Sankt Ottilien 2011, pp. 193–196, 215–219 and 266–275.