Ferdinand Ahuis

Ferdinand Ahuis (born May 21, 1942 in Hilten , Grafschaft Bentheim district ) is a Protestant theologian . From 1993 to 2007 he was senior pastor at the main church St. Nikolai am Klosterstern in Hamburg.

Career

Ferdinand Ahuis was born the son of a blacksmith and locksmith and grew up in Veldhausen , a village in the Grafschaft Bentheim district . In 1961 he graduated from high school Nordhorn and studied until 1967 in Göttingen and Heidelberg , 1968–1969 in Richmond / Virginia, USA. In 1974 he obtained his doctorate in the Old Testament from Heidelberg University. theol.

After the vicariate in Northeim , Madrid and Hildesheim , he was pastor in the St. Sixti Church in Northeim from 1972 to 1981 , from 1981 to 1993 at the St. Severini Church in Hamburg-Kirchwerder , before becoming senior pastor at St. Nikolai am Klosterstern zu Hamburg was elected. In 2007 he retired and focused his research on the regional church history of Northern Germany, especially Johannes Bugenhagen.

In 2013 he became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg.

Other offices and activities

• since 1974: Examiner in various theological exams
• 1975: Commissioner of the Northeim parish for questions of religious instruction and confirmation instruction
• 1981: Lecturer for the Old Testament at the Theological Academy in Celle
• since 1991: Lecturer for the Old Testament in the Protestant Theology department at the University of Hamburg
• 1993: Member of the Synod of the North Elbian Ev.-Luth. church
• 1993: Managing Director of the Hamburg Seniors Academy at the main church St. Nikolai
• 1994: Initiator of the project "The Hamburg Children's Bishops"
• 2012: Lecturer for the Old Testament at the Evangelical University for Social Work and Diakonie, Hamburg
• Research projects: The history of the child bishops; The threefold outcome of the Old Testament in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; The Relationship of the Chief Pastors of St. Nicholas to the Old Testament and Judaism; Rudolf Agricola

Selected works

• The plaintive prophet of judgment. Stuttgart 1982.
• Authority in transition. Stuttgart 1983.
• The casual service: between rite of passage and official act. Stuttgart 1985.
• Exodus 11: 1-13, 16 and the importance of the bearer groups for an understanding of the Passover. Goettingen 1996.
• Calwer Biblical Studies , Stuttgart 2008.
• “You have heard that it was said to the ancients” plea for a “listener response theory” using the example of the reception history of Am 7.10-17 and 1. Kings 13. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2003.
• The "great empire" of David and the role of women. An investigation into the story of David's succession to the throne and their group of women who carried them. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2007.
• The portrait of a reformer: the Leipzig theologian Christoph Ering and the alleged Bugenhagen picture by Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä. from 1532 . Vestigia Bibliae 31, Bern / Berlin / Bruxelles / Frankfurt am Main / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-0343-0683-6 .
• The album Reformatorum Cygnaeum (1542/1543) in the magnificent Bible of the Mayor of Zwickau, Oswald Lasan , Stuttgart 2013.
• With the Bible to your ear . Sermons by a Hamburg chief pastor, Saarbrücken 2014 .
• Matching what is separate . Look at the Old Testament and Judaism. Works on the church history of Hamburg 28th Hamburg 2018.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ferdinand Ahuis in the catalog of the German National Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Klaus Reinhold Borck	Senior Pastor at St. Nikolai in Hamburg 1993 - 2007	Johann Hinrich Claussen