Ferdinand Hahn (theologian)
Ferdinand Hahn (born January 18, 1926 in Kaiserslautern ; † July 28, 2015 in Holzkirchen ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor .
Life
Hahn attended secondary school in Kaiserslautern from 1926 to 1944 and then did his military service until the end of World War II before he was taken prisoner by the US and French from 1945 to 1947.
From 1948 to 1953 he studied Protestant theology at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , at the Georg August University in Göttingen and at the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . From 1954 to 1956 he was in the church service of the Palatinate State Church in Konken and Ebertsheim .
He then worked as a research assistant at Günther Bornkamm in Heidelberg and received his doctorate in 1961. In 1963 he qualified as a professor in the New Testament and then worked as a private lecturer in Heidelberg . After holding a professorship at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen until 1964, he was appointed to the chair for the New Testament at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel from 1964 to 1968 . He then taught from 1968 to 1976 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and from 1976 until his retirement in 1994 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Most recently, from 1998 to 2001 he was a lecturer at the Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church of the Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu , Romania .
From 1968 to 1988 Hahn was chairman of the German East Asia Mission (DOAM), and then honorary chairman of the society. He was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Hermann Art Foundation for the promotion of New Testament text research .
Hahn lived in Iffeldorf until 2014 and most recently in Holzkirchen. After his death he left a wife and children. The funeral service took place in the new Blessing Church in Holzkirchen .
Awards
- 2003: Eugen Biser Prize for his two-volume work Theology of the New Testament
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Hahn in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Ferdinand Hahn in the German Digital Library
- David S. Du Toit , Christoph Levin : Obituary for Ferdinand Hahn (1926 - 2015) , Protestant theological faculty, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
- Entry on Hahn in the directory of professors at the University of Mainz 1946–1973
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ferdinand Hahn , (obituary notice), Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 31, 2015.
- ↑ Prof. em. Dr. Ferdinand Hahn , German East Asia Mission.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hahn, Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaiserslautern |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 2015 |
| Place of death | Wooden churches |