Günther Bornkamm

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Günther Bornkamm (born October 8, 1905 in Görlitz , † February 18, 1990 in Heidelberg ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Bornkamm studied in Tübingen, Marburg and Göttingen. He was a student of Rudolf Bultmann and in 1930 at the University of Marburg to Dr. theol. PhD. In 1934 he completed his habilitation at the University of Königsberg . Because of his work in the Confessing Church , the venia legendi was withdrawn from him in 1937 . Until its closure in 1939, he worked as a lecturer at the Bethel Theological School and then as a pastor in Münster and Dortmund . In 1945 he was able to resume teaching at Bethel.

From 1947 to 1949 Bornkamm was professor at the University of Göttingen , from 1949 to 1971 professor for the New Testament at the University of Heidelberg . In 1965/66 he was the rector of the university.

During his time in Heidelberg, he wrote his most famous work, Jesus of Nazareth . In this, Bornkamm was - in contrast to his teacher Bultmann - optimistic that the critical exegete would distinguish between "real", from Jesus, and "fake", i.e. H. educated by the congregation, able to distinguish Jesus words It is possible to filter out the story of Jesus from the kerygma . The book has been translated into several languages.

With his investigation of the transmission and interpretation in the Gospel of Matthew , which was also translated into English, Bornkamm is considered to be one of the founders of the editorial history research approach.

He dedicated his book Paulus to Hans Freiherr von Campenhausen “for his 65th birthday in friendship”.

Bornkamm had been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 1956 . He was also a member of the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians and the League of Kings .

His students include Professors Helmut Köster , Dieter Georgi , Egon Brandenburger , Dieter Lührmann , Gerhard Barth, Ulrich Wilckens and Ferdinand Hahn .

family

His brother is the church historian and Luther researcher Heinrich Bornkamm .

Günther Bornkamm was married to the theologian Elisabeth Bornkamm, b. Tin (1908-1995). She had previously been friends with Dietrich Bonhoeffer . One of the couple's daughters is the English specialist Aleida Assmann .

Fonts (selection)

  • Myth and Legend in the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1933.
  • together with Walter Klaas: Myth and Gospel . Kaiser, Munich 1951.
  • The End of the Law: Pauline Studies . Kaiser, Munich 1952.
  • Jesus of Nazareth . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [a. a.] 1956 (15th edition 1995).
  • together with Gerhard Barth, Heinz Joachim Held : Tradition and interpretation in the Gospel of Matthew . Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1960 (7th edition 1975).
  • Paul . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [a. a.] 1969 (7th edition 1993).
  • The oppressive Nahe. In: Walter Jens (ed.): The good Samaritan. Kreuz, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-7831-0413-0 , s. 65-74.
  • The father image in the New Testament . In: The father image in myth and history: Egypt, Greece, Old Testament, New Testament , ed. by Hubertus Tellenbach . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [a. a.] 1976, pp. 136-154, ISBN 3-17-002645-3 .
  • together with Hans Walter Wolff : Access to the Bible: an introduction to the writings of the Old and New Testaments . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1980 (study edition)
  • Studies on the New Testament. Kaiser, Munich 1985.
  • Werner Zager (ed.): Studies on the Gospel of Matthew (= scientific monographs on the Old and New Testament, vol. 125). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7887-2365-1 .

literature

  • Dieter Lührmann, Georg Strecker (Hrsg.): Church - Festschrift for Günther Bornkamm . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1980.
  • Martin Hengel : Günther Bornkamm . In: Yearbook of the Heidelberg Academy of Science for 1991, Heidelberg 1992, pp. 100–103 (reprint in: Ders .: Theological, historical and biographical sketches . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2010, pp. 405–408).
  • Otto Merk: Bornkamm, Günther . In: Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG), 4th edition, Volume 1, Tübingen 1998, Sp. 1698.
  • Ferdinand Hahn: Günther Bornkamm (1905–1990). In: Cilliers Breytenbach, Rudolf Hoppe (Ed.): New Testament Science after 1945. Main representative of German-language exegesis in the presentation of its students. Neukirchen-Vluyn 2008, pp. 137-145.
  • Gerd Theißen : New Testament science before and after 1945: Karl Georg Kuhn and Günther Bornkamm . C. Winter, Heidelberg 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Bornkamm: Jesus von Nazareth , Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 15th edition 1995, pp. 17-18.
personal data
SURNAME Bornkamm, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1990
Place of death Heidelberg