Gerhard May (theologian)

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Gerhard Johannes Friedrich May (born November 7, 1940 in Cilli ( Celje ); † August 8, 2007 in Vienna ) was Professor of Church History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . His research focus was on patristics .

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Born the son of the pastor of the same name, Gerhard May, in Lower Styria in what was then Yugoslavia (now Slovenia), May grew up in Vienna, where his father had been bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria since 1944 . After studying Protestant theology in Vienna, Heidelberg and Basel , he was in 1964 with a thesis on Gregory of Nyssa to Dr. theol. did his doctorate and habilitation in 1972 in Munich . From 1979 until his retirement in 2005 he held the chair for ancient church history in Mainz. From 1994 to 2004 he was also director of the Department of Western Religious History at the Institute for European History (Mainz) . May was buried in his father's grave in the Baumgartner Friedhof (group E1, number 97) in Vienna.

Fonts (selection)

  • as editor: The Marburg Religions Discussion 1529 (= texts on church and theological history. 13) Mohn, Gütersloh 1970, ISBN 3-579-04438-9 (2nd edition. ibid 1979).
  • Creation from nothing. The emergence of the doctrine of the creatio ex nihilo (= work on church history. 48). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1978, ISBN 3-11-007204-1 (At the same time: Munich, University, habilitation thesis, 1971: The emergence of the doctrine of the creatio ex nihilo. ).
    • Creatio ex nihilo. The doctrine of "Creation out of Nothing" in Early Christian Thought. Clark, Edinburgh 1994.
  • as editor with Geesche Hönscheid: The Mainz Augustine Sermons. Studies on a find of the century (= publications by the Institute for European History, Mainz. Supplement. 59). von Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3247-5 .
  • Marcion . Collected essays (= publications of the Institute for European History, Mainz. Supplement. 68). Edited by Katharina Greschat and Martin Meiser . von Zabern, Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-8053-3593-8 .

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SURNAME May, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES May, Gerhard Johannes Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian university professor, professor of church history at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Cilli ( Celje )
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2007
Place of death Vienna