Friedrich Nötscher

Friedrich Nötscher (born July 19, 1890 in Himmelstadt , † May 17, 1966 in Bonn ) was a German Old Testament scholar .

Life

After studying in Freiburg im Üechtland and Würzburg from 1908 , Friedrich Nötscher was ordained a priest in 1912 and received his doctorate in 1914 under Johannes Hehn in Würzburg. theol. Nötscher had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Teutonia Friborg since 1908. From 1919 he studied Semitic languages and Assyriology in Berlin. He completed this course in 1922 with a doctorate in Berlin as a Dr. phil. from. After his habilitation in 1923 in Würzburg where he became associate professor in 1927, 1929 professor in Vienna and in 1935 full professor in Bonn . He held the chair in Bonn until 1958.

His post- doctoral thesis "Looking at the face of God" according to the biblical and Babylonian view (1924) is still quoted today. In the bibliography of the book The God of the Living. A biblical doctrine of God by Reinhard Feldmeier and Hermann Spieckermann , it is the oldest cited monograph by a Catholic exegete.

His students include Josef Scharbert (Prof. at the University of Munich), Johannes Botterweck (Prof. at the University of Bonn) and Johannes Heinrich Groß (Prof. at the University of Regensburg).

Friedrich Nötscher was buried on May 21, 1966 in his hometown of Himmelstadt near Würzburg.

Fonts

The righteousness of God with the pre-exilic prophets. A contribution to Old Testament theology . Munster 1915.
“To see the face of God” according to the biblical and Babylonian conceptions . Wuerzburg 1924.
Old oriental and old testament resurrection belief . Wuerzburg 1926.
Biblical antiquity . Bonn 1940.
The Psalms (Series: Echter-Bibel). Wuerzburg 1947.
On the theological terminology of the Qumran texts . Bonn 1956.
Ways of God and ways of man in the Bible and in Qumran . Bonn 1958.

literature

Old Testament Studies. Friedrich Nötscher on his sixtieth birthday on July 19, 1950 . Edited by Hubert Junker and Gerhard Johannes Botterweck . Hanstein, Bonn 1950.
Josef Scharbert : Friedrich Nötscher. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 985-989. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Footnotes

↑ Reinhard Feldmeier, Hermann Spieckermann: The God of the Living. A biblical doctrine of God . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150674-1 , pp. 554-594.

Web links

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

Friedrich Nötscher's estate in the university archive of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

personal data
SURNAME	Nötscher, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Old Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	July 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sky city
DATE OF DEATH	17th May 1966
Place of death	Bonn

[1] Reinhard Feldmeier, Hermann Spieckermann: The God of the Living. A biblical doctrine of God . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-16-150674-1 , pp. 554-594.