Gregor Ahn

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Gregor Ahn (born November 28, 1958 in Erkelenz ) is a comparative religious scholar .

Life

After graduating from the Stiftisches Gymnasium in Düren in 1978, he studied comparative religious studies, Catholic theology , philosophy and Iranian studies at the universities of Bonn and Copenhagen from 1978 to 1986 . In 1986 he passed his master's degree at the University of Bonn . After completing his doctorate in 1991 with a dissertation on the legitimation of religious rulers in Achaemenid Iran. From 1992 to 1994 he taught the prerequisites and the structure of their argumentation at the University of Bonn as a lecturer in Ugarit research at the University of Münster . After his habilitation in 1995 with a habilitation thesis on the subject of monotheism in Israel and Iran. In April 1995 he gave guest lectures at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Tartu on methodological and historiographical considerations on the question of the influence of Zoroastrianism on post-exilic Judaism at the University of Bonn . Since 1996 he has been a professor of comparative religion at Heidelberg University .

His main research interests are the methodology of religious studies, ancient Iranian religious history, monotheism-polytheism research, ritual research and the latest European religious history (especially: religions on the Internet).

Fonts (selection)

  • Religious legitimation of rulers in Achaemenid Iran. The prerequisites and the structure of their argumentation (= Acta Iranica 31 - Troisième série: Textes et mémoires. Volume 17). Brill, Leiden u. a. 1992, ISBN 90-6831-389-4 (also dissertation, Bonn 1991).
  • Monotheism in Israel and Iran. Methodological and historiographical considerations on the question of the influence of Zoroastrianism on post-exilic Judaism , Habil. Bonn 1994 [revised. and exp. in preparation for treatises on theology of the Old and New Testaments], Zurich 2005.
  • as editor with Manfried Dietrich : Angels and Demons. Theological, anthropological and religious-historical aspects of good and evil (= research on anthropology and the history of religion. Volume 29). Ugarit-Verlag, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-927120-31-6 .
  • as editor with Nadja Miczek and Katja Rakow: This world, hereafter and in between? The transformation and construction of dying, death and post-mortality (= culture and media theory ). Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1638-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Employees. In: http://www.zegk.uni-heidelberg.de/religionswissenschaft/mitarbeiter/pages/ahn.html . Heidelberg University, February 24, 2019, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ahn, Gregor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comparative religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Erkelenz