Georg Fohrer

Georg Fohrer (born September 6, 1915 in Krefeld , † December 4, 2002 in Jerusalem ) was a German Protestant theologian and full professor of Old Testament science .

Life

Georg Fohrer studied Protestant theology and comparative religious studies at the universities of Marburg and Bonn from 1934 to 1938 . The doctorate to Dr. phil. took place in 1939 ( The holy way. A study of religious studies. Düsseldorf 1939), to the Dr. theol. 1944 ( The symbolic acts of the Old Testament prophets. ). Fohrer completed his habilitation in 1949, lectured in Marburg and was appointed adjunct professor in 1954. From 1954 to 1962 he held a teaching position at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna . In 1962 he was offered a professorship at the University of Erlangen , where he stayed until his retirement in 1979.

After his retirement, Fohrer converted to Judaism and lived in Jerusalem, where he died in 2002 after a long and serious illness.

Fohrer was honorary doctor of the Universities of Marburg, Aberdeen and St Andrews and an honorary member of numerous learned societies. In addition to his publications, which have been translated into several languages, Fohrer was also (co-) editor of the Zurich Bible Commentaries, the Theological Real Encyclopedia and the Journal for Old Testament Studies (ZAW). The latter had suffered greatly in its reputation under the editorship of Johannes Hempel during the National Socialist era.

Publications (in selection)

• The main problems of the book Ezekiel , Berlin 1952 (habilitation thesis)
• Ezekiel. With a contribution by Kurt Galling . Handbook of the Old Testament, First Series, Volume 13 , Tübingen 1955.
• Studies on Old Testament prophecy , Berlin 1967
• The Book of Job. Commentary on the Old Testament, Volume XVI , Gütersloh 1963 (2nd edition, bibliographically expanded 1989)
• History of the Israelite Religion. Berlin: de Gruyter 1969.
• Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary of the Old Testament . Published by Georg Fohrer in association with Hans Werner Hoffmann, Friedrich Huber, Jochen Vollmer, Gunther Wanke, Berlin 1970
• Old Testament Exegesis: Introduction to the Methodology. Heidelberg 1973, ² 1976, ³ 1979, ⁴ 1983, ⁵ 1989, ⁶ 1993.
• The Prophets of the Old Testament , Gütersloh 1974–1976 (6 volumes)
• History of Israel: from the beginning to the present. Heidelberg 1977, ² 1979, ³ 1982, ⁴ 1985, ⁵ 1990, ⁶ 1995.
• Introduction to the Old Testament: Founded by Ernst Sellin . Revised by Georg Fohrer. Heidelberg ¹² 1979.
• Narrators and prophets in the Old Testament. History of Israelite and early Jewish literature , Heidelberg a. Wiesbaden 1988.

literature

• Walter Sparn : Georg Fohrer in memory ; in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 128 (2003), 242 f.
• Gunther Wanke: Georg Fohrer (1915–2002) in memoriam ; in: Journal for Old Testament Science 115 (2003), p. 1 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Fohrer in the catalog of the German National Library