Bernhard Duhm

Bernhard Duhm (born October 10, 1847 in Bingum ; today Leer (East Frisia) ; † August 31, 1928 in Basel ) was a German Protestant theologian ( Old Testament scholar ).

Life

Bernhard Duhm was the son of a brewer and studied theology in Göttingen from 1867 to 1870 with Albrecht Ritschl , Heinrich Ewald and Julius Wellhausen . From 1871 he was a repetiteur at the Theological Foundation and taught at the Theological Faculty from 1873, initially as a private lecturer , and from 1877 as associate professor for the Old Testament . From 1888 on he taught in Basel . In 1896 he was rector of the university.

Duhm was one of the most important and influential Old Testament scholars of his time. Josef Hromádka was one of his students . Duhm was a representative of the so-called religious history school . Even today, his contributions to research into the prophets are pioneering, trying to gain a history of the development of the Israelite religion from the peculiarities of the individual prophets.

Epoch-making were his separation of the so-called God's servant songs Isa 42: 1-4 (7); 49.1-6; 50.4-9; 52.13 to 53.12 as an independent literary complex within the second part of the Book of Isaiah (chapters 40 to 55, so-called Deutero-Isaiah ) and in 1892 his attribution of chapters 56 to 66 of the Book of Isaiah as an independent anonymous prophet in early post- exile Persian times (so-called Deutero-Isaiah ) . Tritojesaja ). In terms of research history, Duhm's reference to the literary layers in the Book of Jeremiah was also important .

Duhm was married to Helene Bunjes and had three sons, Hans (1878–1946), Dietrich (1880–1954) and Andreas (1883–1975), all of whom were Swiss champions in chess .

Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Bernhard Duhm died in a car accident .

Appreciation

In Leer (East Friesland), district of Bingum, a Bernhard-Duhm-Straße commemorates the son of the city.

Important publications

literature

Hans-Joachim Kraus : History of historical-critical research into the Old Testament from the Reformation to the present . (1956) 3rd exp. Ed., Neukirchen-Vluyn 1982, pp. 275-283. ISBN 3-7887-0701-1
Konrad von Rabenau: Duhm, Bernhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 179 f. ( Digitized version ).
Rudolf Smend : Bernhard Duhm , in: German Old Testament scholars in three centuries. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1989, 114–128.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Duhm, Bernhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1413-1414. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Footnotes

^ Dorothea Neumärker: Josef L. Hromádka. Theology and Politics in the Context of Current Events . Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-459-00907-1 , p. 36.

Web links

Literature by and about Bernhard Duhm in the catalog of the German National Library
Rudolph Smend: Entry in the Biographical Lexicon for East Friesland (PDF)
Klaus Koenen: Duhm, Bernhard. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
Hans-Peter Mathys: Duhm, Bernhard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

personal data
SURNAME	Duhm, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	October 10, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bingum
DATE OF DEATH	August 31, 1928
Place of death	Basel

[1] Dorothea Neumärker: Josef L. Hromádka. Theology and Politics in the Context of Current Events . Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-459-00907-1 , p. 36.