Günter Howe
Ernst Günter Howe (born August 16, 1908 in Hamburg ; † July 27, 1968 ) was a German mathematician and physicist who primarily dealt with border issues between theology and natural science.
Life
Howe grew up in Lübeck, where he graduated from high school at the Johanneum . From 1926 he studied physics and mathematics at the Universities of Rostock and Hamburg (especially with Wilhelm Blaschke , for whom he wrote a dissertation on an area network in 1930 ). He then worked as a teacher, including at the Mürwik Naval School .
Active in the Confessing Church and the Berneuchen movement since the 1930s , he joined the Protestant Research Academy Christophorus-Stift in Hemer in 1947 . Here he was primarily concerned with the conversation between physics and theology, for which he, together with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , held annual conferences at the University of Göttingen from 1949 . He saw connections between modern theology and quantum theory in the thought figure of complementarity and the idea of non-objectifiability. Another focus was the conversation between art historians and theologians.
When the Christophorus-Stift opened up in 1958 at the research facility of the Evangelical Study Community in Heidelberg, he continued talks with scientists there and at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center . This also resulted in an engagement against nuclear armament, which he criticized in 1961 in the Tübingen Memorandum , which he largely initiated .
The Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University gave Howe a teaching position and appointed him honorary professor in 1967.
Fonts (selection)
- Preliminary remarks on the conversation between theology and physics. In: Evangelical Theology , 1947.
- To overcome secularism in science.
- Conversation between theology and physics (= faith and research. Publications of the Christophorus-Stift in Hemer, vol. 2). Freizeiten Verlag, Gladbeck 1950.
- On Niels Bohr's remarks on religious issues. In: Kerygma and Dogma 4 (1958), pp. 20-46.
- Belief in God in the atomic age. Calwer, Stuttgart 1959.
- Man and physics. Eckart, Witten [u. a.] 1963.
- War prevention and peace structures. A study of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Mohn, Gütersloh 1968.
- Christianity in the atomic age. Lectures and studies. Klett, Stuttgart 1970.
- God and technology. Christianity's responsibility for the scientific and technical world. Furche, Hamburg 1971.
- As editor
- Atomic Age, War and Peace. Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. [u. a.] 1959.
- The image of God in the West. Eckart, Witten / Berlin 1957.
- (with Heinz Eduard Tödt ): Peace in the scientific-technical age. Kreuz, Stuttgart 1966.
literature
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: In memory of Günter Howe. A mediator between ideology and science . In: Die Zeit November 8, 1968.
- Otto Heinrich von der Gablentz: God and technology. Notes on Günter Howe's book . In: Quatember , 1972, pp. 14-18
- Guy M. Clicqué: Difference and Parallelism. To understand the connection between theology and natural science using the example of Günter Howe's considerations (= investigations into the Christian faith in a secular world 1). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2001. ISBN 978-3-631-37923-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
- ↑ Günter Howe in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Web links
- Günter Howe in the original sound in the online archive "Österreich am Wort" of the Austrian media library (Salzburg night studio)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Howe, Günter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Howe, Ernst Günter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1968 |