Franz Hesse (theologian)

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Franz Hesse (born June 11, 1917 in Loga in East Frisia , † July 25, 2013 in Bad Essen ) was a German Protestant Reformed theologian and university professor .

Life

Franz Hesse was the son of the Protestant theologian and church historian Hermann Klugkist Hesse and his wife Gertrud Reimann (1886–1963).

After the family moved in 1920, he attended elementary school from 1923 and Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium in Wuppertal-Elberfeld from 1927 to 1936 .

He enrolled in 1936 to study theology at the Church University of Wuppertal and continued this at the University of Marburg and the University of Erlangen ; on March 8, 1940, he passed the first theological exam in Erlangen .

From March 15, 1940, he did his military service in the Wehrmacht and was taken prisoner by the United States near Cherbourg , from which he returned on September 22, 1945. In the prisoner of war camp he met, together with Hermann Höhn , the later theologians like Jörg Zink and Alex Funke , who had set up a theological course there and continued to study theology with them during the prisoner of war.

From 1946 he was a research assistant at the University of Erlangen before he became a repetitionist for Old Testament exegesis at the University of Erlangen on April 1, 1947 ; he obtained his doctorate there on November 1, 1949 theol.

After his habilitation in the Old Testament on April 28, 1853 at the theological faculty of the University of Erlangen, he began as a private lecturer in Old Testament theology. On October 1, 1954, he received the administration of a diet lecturer for the Old Testament at the University of Marburg and on November 5 he became a diet lecturer there. In the summer semester of 1955, he received a paid teaching position for teaching in Hebrew .

He was appointed associate professor on December 8, 1958, and since July 16, 1959, he was the representative for the subject Protestant theology in the Academic Examination Office for the teaching post in secondary schools.

His appointment as full professor for Old Testament theology and exegesis at the University of Munster took place on March 21, 1960 and in the summer semester of the same year he was simultaneously appointed as an extraordinary professor for the Old Testament at the University of Marburg.

Since February 23, 1961 he was a member of the examination office of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia and since April 27, 1961 he was a member of the Münster Scientific Examination Office for the subjects Protestant religious studies and Hebrew.

From 1961 to 1970 he was Ephorus of the Evangelisches Studienhaus Hermannstift in Münster, and during this time, on January 15, 1965, he turned down an offer from August 10, 1964 to the University of Erlangen.

He was a long-time director of the Old Testament seminary of the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Münster.

In 1982 he retired .

Franz Hesse had been married to Hanna Ruth Bohnen since 1946 and they had five children together.

He had an extensive correspondence with his father, which has not yet been published. Parts of his father's estate are in the archives of the Association of Evangelical Churches in Wuppertal-Elberfeld.

Honors

On July 25, 1960, the University of Erlangen appointed him Dr. theol. hc

Fonts (selection)

  • The Intercession in the Old Testament (dissertation, 1951, submitted November 1, 1949).
  • The obsession problem in the Old Testament . Berlin Toepelmann 1955.
  • On the question of the valuation and validity of Old Testament texts . Erlangen Univ.-Bund 1959.
  • Friedrich Heiler ; Kurt Goldammer ; Franz Hesse; Günter Lanczkowski ; Käthe Neumann; Annemarie Schimmel : The religions of mankind in the past and present . Stuttgart: Reclam-Verlag, 1962.
  • The Old Testament as the Book of the Church . Gütersloh, Gütersloh publishing house 1966.
  • Farewell to the history of salvation . Zurich: Theological Publishing House, 1971.
  • Job . Zurich 1978.

literature

  • Franz Hesse In: The professors and lecturers at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743–1960 . Part 1: Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Law. Erlangen 1993. ISBN 3-922135-92-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Hesse's obituaries | noz mourning portal. Accessed January 31, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Franz Hesse | TVZ. Accessed January 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hesse, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical reformed theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Loga , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 2013
Place of death Bad food