Gert Haendler

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Gert Otto Haendler (born August 17, 1924 in Berlin ; † November 28, 2019 in Rostock ) was a German Protestant theologian , university professor for church history , especially patristic and early medieval theology, dean of a theological faculty and author of books on church history.

Life

Gert Haendler grew up in a family with a middle -class academic tradition. His father Otto Haendler (1890–1981) was a professor of theology, his grandfather Wilhelm Haendler (1863–1938) general superintendent of Berlin-Land. Dealer visited the elementary and further education school in Stralsund and Stettin . In 1942 he passed the Abitur in Greifswald . In the same year he became a soldier in the Wehrmacht in a tank regiment . In May 1945, he fell in Magdeburg in captivity . Afterwards he worked for some time as a farm worker for farmers in Hamersleben . From 1946 to 1950 he studied Protestant theology at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald . During this time he worked as assistant to Walter Elliger at the chair for Christian archeology . After successfully passing the exam in May 1950, he received his doctorate in November of the same year with a thesis on church scriptures from the Carolingian era. Shortly afterwards he became a research assistant in the field of church history at the Humboldt University of Berlin . In 1954, he was with a thesis on "The Frankish opinion on the Byzantine Iconoclastic Controversy" habilitation . In 1956 he taught as a lecturer at the faculty there. In 1960 he took over a professorship with a teaching position at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg , but in 1961 he took over the chair for church history at the theological faculty of the Wilhelm Pieck University in Rostock . From 1965 to 1968 he also worked there as dean and from 1968 to 1970 as vice dean . From 1970 to 1972 he was also a member of the Scientific Council , and from 1972 to 1986 he promoted athletic training as a member of the university's sports committee.

Most of his publications fell during his time in Rostock. From 1970 to 2004 he was one of the co-editors of a “Church History in Individual Representations” (KGE). In 1989 Haendler retired .

Honors

Publications

  • The Rostock Theological Faculty under two dictatorships , Münster: Lit, 2004
  • Theologians in the socialist university , Rostock: Histor. Inst., 2000
  • Church connections across the Baltic Sea in the past and present , Leipzig: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1999
  • The Occidental Church in the Age of Migration , Leipzig: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1995, 4th ed.
  • From the imperial church of Otto I to the papal rule of Gregory VII , Leipzig: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1994
  • The role of the papacy in church history up to 1200 , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1993
  • The Latin Church in the Age of the Carolingians , Leipzig: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1992, 2nd ed.
  • From Tertullian to Ambrosius , Leipzig: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1992, 4th ed.
  • The Occidental Church in the Age of Migration , Berlin: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1987, 3rd ed.
  • From Tertullian to Ambrosius , Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1986, 3rd ed.
  • The Latin Church in the Carolingian Age , Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1985, 1st ed.
  • The Occidental Church in the Age of Migration , Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1983, 2nd ed.
  • From Tertullian to Ambrosius , Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1981, 2nd ed.
  • The Western Church in the Age of Migration , Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1980, 1st ed.
  • Office and congregation at Luther in the context of church history , Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1979, 1st ed.
  • Office and congregation at Luther in the context of church history , Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1979
  • From Tertullian to Ambrosius , Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1978, 1st ed.
  • Swedish-German Church Relations , Berlin: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 1975, 1st ed.
  • Swedish-German church relations , Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1975
  • The Libri Carolini, a document of the Franconian history of piety , Greifswald, 1950
  • The Franconian reports on the Byzantine iconoclasm , Berlin, 1954
  • Wulfila and Ambrosius , Stuttgart: Calwer Verl., 1961
  • The world power of the papacy in the high Middle Ages , Berlin: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1965
  • Imperial Church and Monastery Reform from the 9th to the 11th Century , Berlin: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1963
  • The Church in the Carolingian Empire , Berlin: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1962
  • Empire and papacy up to Nicholas I , Berlin: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1964
  • History of the early Middle Ages and the German mission , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1961
  • Epochs of Carolingian Theology , Berlin: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1958
  • Christianity and the Teutons up to Bonifatius , Berlin: Evang. Verl.-Anst., 1961
  • Wulfila and Ambrosius , Berlin: Evangelische Verl. Anst., 1961 [edition] 1960

literature

  • The Rostock Theological Faculty under two dictatorships: Studies on History 1933 - 1989 ; Festschrift for Gert Haendler on his 80th birthday / Heinrich Holze (ed.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gert Haendler passed away. Faculty of Theology, University of Rostock, November 29, 2019, accessed on December 4, 2019 (English).
  2. ↑ [1]

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Dealer, Gert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haendler, Gert Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2019
Place of death Rostock