Friedemann W. Golka

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Friedemann W. Golka (born April 5, 1942 in Glogau , Silesia , † June 24, 2011 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant theologian .

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Golka studied Protestant theology in Bethel , Heidelberg and Oxford , received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1973 and, after several years as a university lecturer in England, followed a call to the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in 1989 , where he held the chair for Protestant theology with a focus on the old Will taught and researched until his retirement in 2007. After his retirement he mainly worked as a guest lecturer at the United Theological College (UTC) Bangalore (India).

Golka was known for “bringing his research results to a wider audience”. Not only "the contact with students, but also with interested laypeople" was always of the greatest importance to him, according to his colleague Wolfgang Weiß.

The focus of Friedemann Golka's work was the comparison of the African and the biblical proverbs, the Book of Jonah (on which he wrote a groundbreaking commentary), as well as the linking or uncovering of links between the biblical Joseph story and Thomas Mann's Joseph tetralogy .

Publications (selection)

  • Jonah. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1991 (2nd edition: Stuttgart 2007), ISBN 978-3-7668-3949-7 .
  • The Leopard's Spots: Biblical and African Wisdom in Proverbs. T. & T. Clark Ltd., Edinburgh 1992, ISBN 0-567-09636-X
  • Joseph - biblical figure and literary figure. Thomas Mann's contribution to Bible exegesis. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-7668-3788-5 .
  • Moses - Biblical figure and literary figure: Thomas Mann's novella "The Law" and the biblical tradition. Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3766839442

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Weiß about Friedemann W. Golka in the obituary of the university