Gustav Hölscher

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Gustav Hölscher (born June 17, 1877 in Norden ; † September 16, 1955 in Heidelberg ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and full professor of Old Testament science .

biography

After schooling in Leipzig, where his father Wilhelm Hölscher was pastor at the Nikolaikirche , Hölscher began studying in Erlangen . After a few semesters, however, he returned to Leipzig , where he took his theological exam in 1900. First he went to Berlin to continue his oriental studies. In addition to the Hebrew and Syrian languages , Hölscher also learned Arabic , Old Ethiopian , Akkadian and Persian . After his dissertation, submitted in Leipzig in 1902, a study visit to Palestine followed. He completed his habilitation in 1905 and was awarded the title of professor in 1912.

After a substitute in Göttingen (1913/14) and an unscheduled professorship at the theological faculty in Halle / S. Hölscher was appointed to the University of Gießen in 1920 , and a year later to Marburg . In 1929, Hölscher accepted a transfer to the Bonn theological faculty in order to organize its reconstruction. Karl Ludwig Schmidt and Karl Barth came to Bonn under his aegis . The critical distance to the Nazi state finally brought about his transfer to the Heidelberg faculty in 1935 . There he became first dean after the Second World War, retired in 1949 and died in 1955 after a brief illness. Since 1936 he was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Hölscher's sons were the Egyptologist Wilhelm Hölscher and the classical philologist Uvo Hölscher .

Scientific work

The scientific work of Hölscher includes works on the literary history of the Old Testament, on the religious history of ancient Judaism as well as works on Hebrew metrics, but also on Nikolaus von Kues .

A project to digitize Hölscher's diaries is currently underway at Heidelberg University.

Fonts

  • Palestine in the Persian and Hellenistic times. A historical-geographical investigation . 1903.
  • Josephus' sources for the period from exile to the Jewish war, 1904.
  • Canonical or apocryphal. A chapter from the history of the Old Testament canon, 1905.
  • Sadduceism. A critical study of the later Jewish religious history, 1906.
  • Regional and Folklore of Palestine (= Göschen Collection 345). 1907.
  • The history of the Jews in Palestine since AD ​​70. A sketch, 1909.
  • The mixed natracts of Sanhedrin and Makkoth. Translated into German and annotated with special consideration of the relationship to the New Testament . 1910.
  • The prophets. Studies on the religious history of Israel (here especially chapter 1: Ecstasy and vision), 1914.
  • The Origin of the Book of Daniel, in: ThStKr 92, 1919, 113-138.
  • Arabic metric, in: ZDMG 74, 1920, 359-416.
  • History of the Israelite and Jewish religion , Gießen: Töpelmann, 1922 (Töpelmann Collection / 1; 7).
  • Composition and origin of Deuteronomy , in: ZAW 40, 1922, 161 ff.
  • The Book of Kings , in: Eucharist. Studies on the religion and literature of the OT and NT, Hermann Gunkel z. 60th volume, ed. v. Hans Schmidt, II, 1923, 158 ff.
  • The books Esr and Neh, in: Die HS des AT., Ed. v. Alfred Bertholet, II, 19234, 491-562.
  • Ezekiel. The poet and the book. A literary-critical investigation, 1924 (BZAW 39).
  • The origins of Jewish eschatology, 1925.
  • Early Congregation and Late Judaism, Oslo 1928.
  • Syrian verse art, 1932.
  • The Book of Job , 1937 (19522).
  • The list of high priests in Josephus and the Protestant chronology (= SAH Philos.-hist. Kl. Born 1939/40, Fig. 3), 1940.
  • The beginnings of Hebrew historiography , 1942 (= SAH 1941/42, Abh. 3).
  • Three maps of the earth. A contribution to the knowledge of Hebrew antiquity (= SAH Philos.-hist. Kl. Born 1944/48, Abh. 3), 1949.
  • Historiography in Israel. Investigations on the Yahwist. Lund 1952 (Skrifter utgivna av Kungl. Humanistica Vetenskaps samfundet i Lund 50).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Gustav Hölscher. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed July 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hölscher, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor (Old Testament scholar)
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH north
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1955
Place of death Heidelberg