Gernot Wießner

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Gernot Wießner (born February 2, 1933 in Stettin , † February 24, 1999 in Göttingen ) was a German orientalist ; He became known to a wider public for his commitment to the Yazidis , which made them recognized as a persecuted religious group in Germany.

Life

After finishing school in Stettin and Bad Wilsnack , Gernot Wießner studied Protestant theology at the universities of Halle , Marburg and Lausanne from 1950 . After taking his theological exam in 1956, he studied history and oriental studies in Marburg and Würzburg . Inspired by the orientalist Carl Brockelmann , Wießner did his doctorate in 1962 at the University of Würzburg under Wilhelm Eilers with investigations into a group of Syrian martyrs from Schapur II's persecution of Christians . In 1964, a theological dissertation on the tradition of martyrs of the Adiabene with the church historian Carl Andresen at the University of Göttingen followed . Since November 1964, he served as a research assistant in the Christian Archaeological Department of the Göttingen Theology, in December of that year he was after the second theological exam ordained . A few years after his habilitation (1967) he became professor for general religious history at Göttingen University; before him, Carsten Colpe held the chair. In the 1970s and 1980s he was head of the Collaborative Research Center 13 for research into syncretism in the Middle East. Wießner's groundbreaking report on the so-called Stader judgment drew attention to the need for a right to stay for Yazidis and has offered courts and lawyers a guideline since 1982. In the 1980s and 1990s Wießner devoted himself for many years to his multi-volume work on Christian cult buildings in the limestone mountains of Tur Abdin in what is now Turkey. In 1989 he was a companion and advisor to Interior Minister Herbert Schnoor (NRW) on a trip to the Yezidi villages of Tur Abdin.

Fonts (in selection)

  • Investigations into a group of Syrian acts of martyrdom from the persecution of Christians by Shahpur II , Diss. Phil. Wuerzburg 1962
  • Formal and literary studies on the tradition of the Adiabene martyrs , Diss. Theol. Goettingen 1964
  • Festschrift for Wilhelm Eilers , ed. by G. Wießner, Wiesbaden 1967
  • Bios and ethos. Investigations on the method of exemplary historiography by Euseb of Caesarea , unpublished. Habil. 1967
  • Syncretism research. Theory and practice. Edited by Gernot Wießner, Wiesbaden 1977 (Göttingen Orient Research, Fundamentals and Results 1)
  • Christian cult buildings in Tur Abdin , 4 volumes (Göttinger Orientforschungen II / 4)
    • Part I: Cult buildings with transverse nave and rock structures; Text volume, Tafelband, Wiesbaden 1981/82
    • Part II: Cult buildings with a longitudinal nave; Textband, Tafelband, Wiesbaden 1992
    • Part III: Supplement to cult buildings with transverse nave and rock structures, Appendix: grave structures. The fortresses of Edikli; Textband, Tafelband, Wiesbaden 1992
    • Part IV: Supplement to cult buildings with a longitudinal ship, Wiesbaden 1993
  • Studia Manichaica : II. International Congress on Manichaism. 6-10 August 1989 St. Augustin / Bonn (Studies in Oriental Religions), ed. by Gernot Wießner and Hans Joachim Klimkeit , Wiesbaden 1992
  • Canon Law - Religious Studies , by Axel Freiherr von Campenhausen and Gernot Wießner, Stuttgart a. a. 1994 (Basic Theology Course 10.1), ISBN 3170126911

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Wießner, Investigations into a group of Syrian martyrs from the persecution of Christians by Shahpur II , Diss. Phil. Würzburg 1962, p. 1
  2. ↑ Speech by Irina Wießner on the inauguration of the Yezidi Forum Oldenburg, 2001 ( Memento from April 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Irina Wiessner: Committed to human rights. In: The Lord creates justice and justice . Festschrift for Hans Engel. Wuppertal 2001. pp. 49-59.
personal data
SURNAME Wießner, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1999
Place of death Goettingen