Gottfried Vanoni
Gottfried Vanoni SVD (born March 30, 1948 in Chur ; † April 25, 2006 in Maria Enzersdorf , Austria ) was a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and author .
Life
Gottfried Vanoni grew up with his five siblings in Bad Ragaz , Switzerland. In 1969 he completed his Matura at the Einsiedeln Abbey School and soon after joined the Society of the Divine Word . From 1970 to 1976 he studied theology at the Philosophical-Theological University of St. Gabriel and completed his studies with a thesis on the book of Jona . Vanoni was ordained a priest on May 15, 1976 . In the following year he began a doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich with a focus on exegesis and Bible theology and completed this in 1983 with a thesis on literary criticism and grammar .
Vanoni taught the Old Testament in St. Gabriel from 1983 and worked there from 1986 to 1995 and again from 2001 as dean and vice-rector in the last years of his life. From 1988 he also taught as a visiting professor at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna . From 1989 he taught Hebrew and the Old Testament at the Heiligenkreuz University of Applied Sciences .
As a speaker, author, composer and chairman of the "Working Group of German-Speaking Catholic Old Testament Scholars" (AGAT), he was involved in many different ways right into his old age. He died of a brain tumor in the St. Gabriel Mission House .
Publications (selection)
- Literary criticism and grammar. Investigation of the repetitions and tensions in 1 Kings 11-12 (= Munich University Writings . Work on text and language in the Old Testament. Vol. 21). EOS, Sank Ottilien 1984.
- The man whose name was dove: reading the Bible with children; the book of Jonah (= catechetical fields of action. Vol. 4). Herder, Vienna 1984.
- You are our father (Isa 63, 16): on the conception of God in the First Testament (= Stuttgart Biblical Studies. Vol. 159). Catholic Biblical Works, Stuttgart 1995.
- Gottfried Vanoni and Bernhard Heininger : The New Real Bible - Topics 4 - The Kingdom of God: Perspectives of the Old and New Testaments. Echter, Würzburg 2002.
literature
- Alkuin Volker Schachenmayr : Formative professors in the development of theological teaching in the Cistercian monastery Heiligenkreuz 1802–2002. Bernardus, Langwaden 2004, ISBN 3-937634-08-8 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vanoni, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chur |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 2006 |
| Place of death | Maria Enzersdorf |