Dieter Georgi

Dieter Georgi (born June 6, 1929 in Middle Summer ; † March 1, 2005 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German-American Protestant theologian, New Testament scholar and university professor.

Life

Dieter Georgi was the son of a pastor and an American mother. From 1939 to 1947 he first attended the humanistic grammar school in Frankfurt am Main and then in Dresden . In Dresden he experienced the air raids on Dresden in 1945 . From 1947 to 1953 he studied Protestant theology at the universities of Mainz, Heidelberg, Göttingen, Marburg and Edinburgh.

In 1953 he passed the first and in 1955 the second theological exam in the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau in Darmstadt . From 1954 to 1955 Georgi was a repetitee for the New Testament in Heidelberg. 1955 to 1957 he worked as parish vicar at the Andreaskirche in Frankfurt am Main. In 1957 he was first administrator of a research assistant position and then until 1962 research assistant at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University. There he was with one of Günther Born comb supervised dissertation on the subject of Paul's opponents in 2 Corinthians for Dr. theol. PhD. In 1962 he also completed his habilitation in Heidelberg with a thesis on the history of Paul's collections for Jerusalem . From 1962 to 1964 Georgi worked as a private lecturer for the New Testament in Heidelberg.

After a visiting professorship for the New Testament at Harvard University from 1964 to 1965, Georgi was appointed adjunct professor in Heidelberg in 1965. The following year he was appointed professor of the New Testament at the San Francisco Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in San Anselmo , California . In 1969 he moved to Harvard Divinity School . There he worked until 1984 as Frothingham Professor of Biblical Studies . Since 1971 he was also a German preacher at the First Lutheran Church in Boston . In his home town of Arlington, Massachusetts , he set up a soccer program in local schools.

In 1982 he came back to Frankfurt as a substitute professor at the then religious studies seminar. In 1983 he worked full-time in the founding phase of the Protestant Theology department at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , and from 1987 to 1989 as the founding dean of the new department. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Martin Buber - endowed professorship involved for Jewish religious philosophy.

After his retirement in 1996, he continued to teach in Frankfurt and as a visiting professor at the Union Theological Seminary in Dasmarinas in the Philippines .

He was married to the theologian Barbara, b. Shepherd. The couple had five children.

Publications

• Paul's opponents in 2. K. 2, 14-7,4 and 10-13. University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Theology, dissertation dated February 22, 1958

Print version: Paul's opponents in 2nd Corinthians. Studies on Religious Propaganda in Late Antiquity. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag 1964 (Scientific monographs on the Old and New Testament 11)

English translation: The opponents of Paul in Second Corinthians: a study of religious propaganda in late antiquity. Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1985 ISBN 0-8006-0729-5 ; Edinburgh: Clark 1987 ISBN 0-567-09356-5 (Studies of the New Testament and its world)

• The story of Paul's collection for Jerusalem. Heidelberg, Theol. F., Hab.Schr. v. Feb 28, 1962

Print version: The story of Paul's collection for Jerusalem. Hamburg-Bergstedt: Reich 1965 (Theological Research 38)

2nd edition: In memory of the poor: the story of Paul's collection for Jerusalem. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag 1994 ISBN 978-3-7887-1424-6

literature

• Lukas Bormann : Religious propaganda and missionary competition in the New Testament world: essays honoring Dieter Georgi. Suffer; New York; Cologne: Brill 1994 ISBN 90-04-10049-0 (Supplements to Novum Testamentum 74)
• Stefan Alkier : Dieter Georgi. In: Uni-Report April 13, 2005, p. 20 digitized

Web links

• Obituary by Helmut Koester
• Article by Dieter Georgi in the Index theologicus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rodney L. Petersen: Divinings: Religion at Harvard: From its Origins in New England Ecclesiastical History to the 175th Anniversary of The Harvard Divinity School, 1636-1992. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2014 ISBN 9783647550565 , pp. 72–74