Franz Xaver Steinmetzer

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Franz Xaver Steinmetzer (born January 12, 1879 in Dauba , Northern Bohemia , † 1945 in the Slaný assembly camp ) was a Roman Catholic theologian , religious scholar , orientalist , Assyriologist and author .

Life

Franz Xaver Steinmetzer was born on January 12, 1879 as the son of a doctor in the town of Dauba in northern Bohemia. After attending grammar school in Prague , he subsequently completed a theological degree at the German University in Prague and, after being ordained a priest in 1901, worked in pastoral care in Bečov for a year . As early as 1902 he was appointed university adjunct to the theological faculty of the University of Prague, where he continued his academic training. He also studied six semesters at the University of Berlin , where he mainly devoted himself to oriental language studies. His professors included Adolf Erman , Adolf Harnack , Eduard Meyer and especially the Assyriologist Friedrich Delitzsch . Here he also joined the student association AV Hansea Berlin zu Cologne in autumn 1905 . In Prague Steinmetzer also attended the seminar for oriental languages ​​and the Institut Judaicum. In 1905 he received his doctorate as Dr. theol. in Prague and in 1909 Dr. phil. in Berlin. In 1908 he completed his habilitation at the German University in Prague and in the same year was appointed professor at the theological college in Leitmeritz .

In 1910 he became an associate professor for Bible studies at the German University in Prague, before he was promoted to full professor in 1912 and dean in 1916/17.

Steinmetzer was considered an extremely versatile orientalist and founder of Assyriology in Prague. In Prague he also taught at the Oriental Institute, and from 1924 he also made efforts in the Society for the Promotion of German Science, Art and Literature in Prague.

During the Second World War , Steinmetzer also taught at the theological and legal faculty of the German University in Prague, which during this time was called the University of Prague . In the turmoil after the Second World War, Steinmetzer died in 1945 in the assembly camp in Slaný , before he was evacuated from Czechoslovakia . Nothing is known about the exact circumstances and the exact date of death.

Works (selection)

  • New investigation into the historicity of the Judith story , 1907.
  • The story of the birth and childhood of Christ and its relationship to the Babylonian myth , 1910.
  • On property in Babylonia during the Kassite period , 1919.
  • Saint Peter: According to the information in the New Testament
  • The star of Bethlehem
  • The Babylonian Kudurru
  • A deed of gift from King Melišichu or King Melišihu's deed of gift to his son Marduk-aplam-iddina
  • Introduction to the New Testament
  • Received from the Holy Spirit ... An examination of the ancient world
  • Holy hour: reflections according to the Holy Scriptures with a devotion to the cross as appendix.
  • Jesus and we Aryans
  • Jesus, the son of a virgin and the ancient oriental myth

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personal data
SURNAME Steinmetzer, Franz Xaver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman Catholic theologian, religious scholar, orientalist, Assyriologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Dauba , North Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH 1945