Ernst Sellin

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Ernst Franz Max Sellin (born May 26, 1867 in Alt Schwerin , Mecklenburg ; † January 1, 1946 in Epichnellen , Thuringia ) was a German theologian and Biblical archaeologist . As one of the first university professors , he combined Old Testament science with archeology .

Life

Ernst Sellin, a son of the Protestant theologian and pastor Wilhelm Sellin (1838–1931) and the pharmacist's daughter Ida, b. Rötger (1844–1923), as well as grandson Carl Wilhelm Sellins , grew up in Dassow , attended the Lauenburg School of Academics in Ratzeburg and studied Protestant theology and oriental studies at the University of Rostock , the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen and the University of Leipzig . In Leipzig he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .

From 1891 to 1894 he worked as a high school teacher in Parchim . He then was a private lecturer in Erlangen from 1894 to 1897 and then taught as a professor at the universities of Vienna (1897–1908), Rostock (1908–1913), Kiel (1913–1921) and Berlin (1921–1935). From 1919 to 1921 he was twice rector of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

Sellin recognized the importance of archeology in relation to his theological work early on, and from 1902 to 1904 directed the excavations on Tell Taʿannek in Palestine. Another focus of his work was the archaeological research of the city of Jericho ( Tell es Sultan ) from 1907 to 1909 and Shechem (Tell Balata, 1913 to 1914). Sellin published numerous works, his most important, the textbook Introduction to the Old Testament (1910; last 12th edition 1979 edited by Georg Fohrer), was considered a standard work for generations .

Sellin put forward the thesis at the beginning of the 20th century that Moses was killed as a "martyr" by the Israelites. In his study The Man Moses and the Monotheistic Religion , Sigmund Freud also relies on Sellin's findings.

Sellin is an Old Testament scholar who has been "wrongly" forgotten today, says Jan Assmann . Sigmund Freud's book of Moses is "apparently much more influenced by Sellin ... than previously assumed". Klaus Baltzer later took up Sellin's thesis of the identity of the suffering servant of God in Deutero-Isaiah with Moses .

A theologian who still deals with Sellin today is Hermann Michael Niemann .

Fonts (selection)

  • Contributions to Israelite and Jewish Religious History , 1896
  • Studies on the genesis of the Jewish community , 1901
  • Tell Taʿannek. Report on an excavation in Palestine , Vienna 1904, carried out with the support of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Culture and Education ; Reprinted in: S. Kreuzer (ed.), Taanach / Tell Taʿannek. 100 years of research on archeology, history, found objects and cuneiform texts, Vienna Old Testament Studies 5, Vienna-Frankfurt am Main 2006, 131–270. ISBN 978-3631551042
  • A gleaning from Tell Taʿannek in Palestine , Vienna 1906; Reprinted in: S. Kreuzer (ed.), Taanach / Tell Taʿannek. 100 years of research on archeology, history, found objects and cuneiform texts, Vienna Old Testament Studies 5, Vienna-Frankfurt am Main 2006, 271–317. ISBN 978-3631551042
  • The Enigma of the Deutero-Isaiah Book , 1907
  • The Israelite-Jewish expectation of the Savior , 1909
  • Old Testament prophecy. A. Deichert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1912.
  • Jericho. The results of the excavations , 1913 (with Carl Watzinger )
  • Introduction to the Old Testament , 1910, 12 editions up to 1979 (updated up to 7th edition in 1935 by Sellin, then by Leonhard Rost and Georg Fohrer).
  • Moses and its Significance for the Israelite-Jewish Religious History , A. Deichersche Verlagsbuchhandlung Dr. Werner Scholl, Leipzig, 1922
  • The Old Testament in Christian worship and teaching , 1936

literature

  • Siegfried Kreuzer: Palestine Archeology from Austria. Ernst Sellin's excavations on Tell Taʿannek in Israel (1902-1904). In: Changing times and persistence. Contributions to the history of the Protestant theological faculty in Vienna 1821–1996. [Series of publications from the University Archives, Vol. 10]. Vienna 1997. pp. 257-276, ISBN 978-3851143140 .
  • Siegfried Kreuzer: The excavations of the Viennese Old Testament scholar Ernst Sellin in Tell Taʿannek (Taanach) from 1902 to 1904 in the horizon of contemporary research. In: Protocols to the Bible 13 (2004), pp. 107-130.
  • Siegfried Kreuzer (Ed.): Taanach / Tell Taʿannek. 100 years of research on archeology, history, found objects and cuneiform texts. With contributions by Frank S. Frick, Wayne Horowitz, Siegfried Kreuzer, Takayoshi Oshima, Regine Pruzsinszky, Mark S. Ziese and Wolfgang Zwickel as well as a reprint of the excavation reports by Ernst Sellin and the text edition by Friedrich Hrozný. (Vienna Old Testament Studies; 5). Lang, Vienna / Frankfurt 2006. ISBN 978-3-631-55104-2 .
  • Siegfried Kreuzer: Ernst Sellin and Gottlieb Schumacher. In: Charlotte Trümpler (Ed.): The big game. Archeology and Politics during the Colonial Period (1860-1940). Essen 2008. pp. 136-145, 655f. ISBN 978-3-8321-9063-7 .
  • Siegfried Kreuzer: The understanding of biblical monotheism in Ernst Sellin. In: Wiener Jahrbuch für Theologie 2012. Vienna 2013. pp. 175–187. ISBN 978-3-8471-0065-2 .
  • Ulrich Palmer: Ernst Sellin - Old Testament scholar and archaeologist. With a contribution by Hermann Michael Niemann, contributions to the study of the Old Testament and ancient Judaism. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2012. ISBN 978-3-631-61078-7 .
  • Georg Sauer:  Sellin, Ernst Franz Max. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 1370-1372.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ In the First World War he had also volunteered and he was a soldier in Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 ; so Gustav Stoffleth : History of the Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 ; Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Berlin 1937, DNB 362821119
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  4. ↑ Exodus. The Old World Revolution. Munich 2015. p. 330.
  5. ↑ Exodus. The Old World Revolution. Munich 2015. p. 334.
  6. ↑ Exodus. The Old World Revolution. Munich 2015. p. 438.
  7. ↑ https://www.theologie.hu-berlin.de/de/professuren/professuren/at/online-archiv/handout-niemann.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Sellin, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sellin, Ernst Franz Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and biblical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt Schwerin , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1946
Place of death Epichnelles , Thuringia