Georg Hentschel

This article deals with the theologian Georg Hentschel. For other people see Georg Henschel .

Georg Hentschel (born December 18, 1941 in Rengersdorf , Glatz district , Lower Silesia Province ) is a professor emeritus for exegesis and theology of the Old Testament at the University of Erfurt .

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Georg Hentschel attended the Goethe High School in Roßlau / Elbe from 1956 to 1960 and passed his Abitur there. From 1960 to 1964 he studied Catholic theology at the Philosophical-Theological Studies in Erfurt , the ecclesiastical forerunner of the theological faculty of today's Erfurt University .

From 1968 to 1971 he worked as a pastor as vicar in Dessau , then until 1976 assistant at the Philosophical-Theological Studies in Erfurt with parallel studies at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland.

Then he was a lecturer at the Philosophical-Theological Study in Erfurt until 1978 and received his doctorate in 1978 with a dissertation on "The Elijah Tales " at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He then worked until 1991 as a lecturer at the Philosophical-Theological Studies in Erfurt, interrupted in 1989/1990 by an exemption to study at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.

From 1991 to 2006, Hentschel was a full professor for Exegesis of the Old Testament in Erfurt and at times also lecturer for Hebrew and other languages ​​of the Old Testament. In 2006, Hentschel was honored with a festschrift on the occasion of his 65th birthday.

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Hentschel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Emeritus Prof. Dr. Georg Hentschel on the website of the University of Erfurt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher et al. (Ed.): A heart as wide as the sand on the seashore. Festschrift for Georg Hentschel (= Erfurt Theological Studies. 90). Echter, Würzburg 2006.