Friedrich Andres

Friedrich Andres (born March 28, 1882 in Neunkirchen in Lorraine , † December 1, 1947 in Bonn ) was a German religious scholar .

Live and act

He was the son of the main teacher Matthias Andres and, after graduating from high school, studied classical philology in Strasbourg from 1901 , then theology at the Episcopal Seminary in Trier . In 1906 he was ordained a priest and then worked in pastoral care. 1909–1911 he studied in Berlin , 1911–1914 in Breslau , particularly Greek philology as well as the history of dogma and religion; in 1913 in Breslau he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD . During his studies he became a member of the KStV Unitas Breslau . On July 16, 1920 he was at the University of Bonn habilitation and received a teaching of Religious History at the Catholic Theological Faculty. In 1927 there was an extraordinary, non-civil servant "professor for general religious studies including the comparative history of religion and psychology of religion".

Publications

• The teaching of angels by the Greek apologists of the second century and their relationship to Greco-Roman demonology. Schöningh, Paderborn 1914.
• The heavenly journey of the Carib medicine men . In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 70, 1938, pp. 331–342.

literature

• Otto Wenig (Ed.): Directory of professors and lecturers at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn 1818–1968 . Bouvier, Bonn 1968
• Horst Junginger: From Philological to Völkisch Religious Studies , Stuttgart 1999, p. 81 [1]
• Ulrich Vollmer: Friedrich Andres (1882-1947): a theological scholar of religion at the University of Bonn , in: The Study of Religion under the Impact of Fascism. Numen Book Series - Studies in the History of Religions 117, 2008, pp. 443-466

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yearbook of the Cartel Association of Catholic Student Associations in Germany (KV). Twenty-ninth year 1931, Berlin 1931, p. 228.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Andres in the catalog of the German National Library