Carl Friedrich Heman

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Carl Friedrich Heman
Carl Friedrich Heman

Carl Friedrich Heman (born August 30, 1839 in Grünstadt ; † April 3, 1919 in Basel ) was a German Protestant theologian and professor of philosophy at the University of Basel .

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He was born the son of teacher Heinrich Wilhelm David Heman (1793–1873), who converted from Judaism to Protestant Christianity in 1833 . He came from the children's home and had lost his job as a teacher at the Jewish school in Grünstadt due to the conversion. That is why the headmaster Heinrich Dittmar , who is his friend, hired him as a math teacher at the Grünstadt Latin School , from where he moved to Basel in 1844 and took over the management of the “ Proselytenhaus ” run by the Protestant “Association of Friends of Israel” .

Carl Friedrich Heman was born while his father was working as a mathematics teacher in Grünstadt and moved with his family to Basel in 1844. He attended school there and in 1857 moved to the Zweibrücken grammar school , where he completed the last class and the Abitur. In 1858 Heman returned to Basel and began to study philosophy. From 1860 he attended the University of Erlangen and devoted himself to Protestant theology. He continued his studies in Tübingen from 1861 and, after a short break from military service, in Basel from 1863. In 1864 he passed the theological exam at the Protestant Church of the Palatinate in Speyer and received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Tübingen .

1864–1871 Carl Friedrich Heman worked as parish vicar in Germersheim . Here he married Sophie Blaul (1843–1930), the daughter of the late parish priest and local poet Georg Friedrich Blaul , with whom he had seven children. From 1871 Heman officiated as a Protestant pastor in the Palatinate Konken . In 1874 he succeeded his father, who died the previous year, in office as director of the Basel proselyte house of the "Friends of Israel" .

In 1883 he completed his habilitation in theology at the University of Basel and was appointed associate professor in 1888 , but at the Philosophical Faculty for the subjects of philosophy and education. This change of subject evidently had to do with the “Catholic tendencies” which he was often accused of , which included the high esteem for scholastic philosophy and theology.

In 1916 he resigned from his university offices and died in Basel in 1919. Carl Friedrich Heman was friends with the mathematician Georg Cantor and personally known to Theodor Herzl , whose 1st Zionist World Congress in Basel he helped to organize in 1897, as he, too, saw the creation of a Jewish state of his own as necessary.

Heman wrote a large number of books and writings, mainly on philosophical-theological subjects, but also on the history of Judaism. Some of them have been translated into other languages ​​and some have recently been reprinted or reissued.

Works by Hemans available online

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on David Heman in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
  2. ↑ Website of the University of Basel ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / philsem.unibas.ch
  3. ↑ Hanna Rucksack: Messianic Jews: History and Theology of Movement in Israel , Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, ISBN 3788728809 , p. 77; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Heman, Carl Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heman, Johann Friedrich Carl Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and philosopher, professor in Basel
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1839
PLACE OF BIRTH Grünstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1919
Place of death Basel