Friedrich Stummer

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Friedrich Stummer (born September 7, 1886 in Münnerstadt , † January 12, 1955 in Munich ) was a German Catholic theologian . He worked in the field of Old Testament exegesis and the ancient oriental languages .

Career

After attending school in Würzburg and studying theology and ancient oriental languages ​​at the Julius Maximilian University there , during which he joined the Catholic fraternity Unitas Hetania in 1905, he was ordained a priest in 1909 . In 1910 he did his doctorate under Johannes Hehn with a thesis on the Achiqar story. A work by Stummer on the 200th anniversary of Richard Simon's death was honored by the University of Würzburg. In his habilitation thesis, also submitted to the University of Würzburg in 1918, Stummer compared Old Testament psalms with Sumerian - Akkadian texts; In 1923 he became an associate professor in Würzburg. A grant from the Görres Society enabled him to do research in Jerusalem from 1927 to 1929 . A planned "Biblical Geography", which should emerge from the local work of Stummer, was not completed, however.

Several positions followed as a professor of Old Testament exegesis : from 1929 to 1932 at the Philosophical-Theological University of Freising , then until 1935 in Würzburg and then until the faculty there was closed in 1939 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . From 1939 to 1945 he taught at the University of Breslau .

From 1946 he was again professor of the Old Testament in Munich, where among others Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI. , heard his lectures. In 1953, Stummer retired .

Friedrich Stummer is buried in Würzburg.

Research areas

During his research, Stummer published relatively little. However, he is regarded as a particularly conscientious researcher who invested a great deal of effort in detailed special research. His areas of work were commentary on the writings of the Old Testament, research on the history of the Old Orient and linguistic research.

After the Second World War , Stummer rendered outstanding services to the relationship between Judaism and Christianity - from his point of view particularly important due to the common possession of a revelation by Jews and Christians. Many of his contributions on this topic appeared in the Freiburg newsletter .

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  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 1 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1995, p. 365 .
personal data
SURNAME Mute, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Münnerstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1955
Place of death Munich