Gerhard Delling (theologian)

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Gerhard Delling (born May 10, 1905 in Ossa (Narsdorf) , † June 18, 1986 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German theologian and university professor .

Life

After elementary school in Ossa, Delling attended the state grammar school in Chemnitz , where he passed the school leaving examination in 1924. He then studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Erlangen , Berlin and Leipzig . In 1928 he passed his first theological examination, and in 1929 received an assistant position at the University of Tübingen . Delling received his doctorate in October 1931 with the dissertation Paulus' position on women and marriage to the licentiate of theology.

From 1932 to 1940 he held various pastoral positions in Leipzig, Glauchau and Leipzig again. In 1939 he declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life . He did military service as a pastor and was promoted to NCO in 1941, receiving the War Merit Cross 2nd Class and the Eastern Medal. In 1945 Delling became a prisoner of war in Denmark and worked as a pastor in the Aarhus internment camp until 1947 . After his release he went to Pomerania and in 1947 was given a teaching position at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . In 1948 he completed his habilitation here with the scripture Divine Service in the New Testament (printed 1952) for the New Testament subject . In 1950 Delling was appointed professor with teaching assignment at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , in 1952 he was given the full teaching assignment, and he was promoted to professor with chair for late ancient religious history in 1953. In 1955 he was given by Kurt Aland , the head of the Commission for late antique religious history of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , a body for the reorganization of the Corpus Hellenisticum . In 1955/56 Delling took over a visiting professorship at the University of Leipzig, but neither did an appointment, nor did the transfer to Berlin that parts of the theological faculty of the Humboldt University wanted in the 1960s. At the University of Halle, Delling set up the Institute for the History of Religion in Late Antiquity , of which he has been director since 1963. After the fourth university reform, Delling was appointed full professor in 1969 and retired in 1970.

Delling researched primarily the history of transmission of the New Testament and ancient Judaism ( The Understanding of Time in the New Testament , 1940; Jewish Doctrine and Piety in den paralipomena Jeremiae , 1967; collected essays: Studies on the New Testament and Hellenistic Judaism , 1950–1968, 1970 ; Studies on Early Judaism , 1971–1987, 2000). He also published bibliographies on Jewish-Hellenistic research and worked on the Corpus Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti . The University of Greifswald awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1964 . 

Delling died on June 18, 1986 at the age of 81 in Halle. He was buried in the Laurentiusfriedhof .

Fonts

  • Ernst Moritz Arndt Return to Faith in Christ ; Berlin 1937
  • Jesus' miracles in the sermon, especially in the old Gospels. Reviewed by Lic. Gerhard Delling; ed. by Erich Stange; Dresden, Leipzig, 1940
  • Worship in the New Testament ; Berlin, Göttingen 1952
Engl .: Worship in the New Testament ; London, Philadelphia 1962
  • The dedication of salvation in baptism. An investigation into the New Testament “baptism in name” ; Berlin 1961
  • Romans 13: 1–7 within the New Testament epistles ; Berlin 1962
  • Paul's message ; Berlin 1965
  • Studies on the New Testament and Hellenistic Judaism. Collected essays 1950–1968 ; ed. by Ferdinand Hahn, Traugott Holtz and Nikolaus Walter; Berlin 1970
  • Jesus' death on the cross in the early Christian proclamation ; Berlin 1971
  • Word of God and proclamation in the New Testament ; Stuttgart 1971
  • Coping with the diaspora situation through Hellenic Judaism ; Berlin 1987
  • The encounter between Hellenism and Judaism ; in: ANRW II 20.1 (1987), pp. 3-39
  • Studies on early Judaism. Collected essays 1971–1987 ; ed. v. Cilliers Breytenbach and Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr; Göttingen 2000; ISBN 3-525-53647-X

literature

  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 560.
  • Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: The New Testament scholar Gerhard Delling (1905–1986) as a researcher of early Judaism. In: Udo Schnelle (Ed.): Reformation and Modern Times. 300 years of theology in Halle . de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1994, ISBN 3-11-014588-X , pp. 73–86 (Also in: Gerhard Delling: Studien zum Frühjudentum. Collected essays 1971–1987. Edited by Cilliers Breytenbach and Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-53647-X , pp. 11-22).
  • Christian Stephan: The silent faculty - Biographical contributions to the history of the theological faculty of the University of Halle . Page 90-93; Janos Stekovics, Dößel 2005. ISBN 3-89923-103-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Lang: History of the Corpus Hellenisticum
  2. ^ Catalogus Professorum Halensis
personal data
SURNAME Delling, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Ossa (Narsdorf)
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1986
Place of death Halle (Saale)