Hans-Jürgen Goertz

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Hans-Jürgen Goertz (born April 16, 1937 in Fronza in West Prussia) is a German Mennonite theologian and historian . Thomas Müntzer and the Reformation Anabaptist movement play a central role in his work . In addition, Goertz made a name for himself as a history theorist .

Live and act

Hans-Jürgen Goertz studied Protestant theology , English , philosophy and history in Hamburg , Göttingen , Tübingen and Hillsboro , Kansas. In the summer of 1964 he received his doctorate in theology in Göttingen with a thesis on Thomas Müntzer as a revolutionary theologian. Then he worked as vicar and pastor at the Mennonite congregation in Hamburg and Altona , where he opened the congregation ecumenically and co-founded the working group of Christian churches in Hamburg. Between 1969 and 1972 he worked as a research assistant at the Ecumenical Institute and in the Ecumenical Student Hall of the University of Heidelberg . A habilitation in systematic theology that had already been prepared in Heidelberg could not be carried out in Heidelberg because Goertz would have had to change to the Protestant regional church for this. Part of the habilitation thesis was published in 1980 under the title Spirit and Reality. A study on Erich Schaeder's pneumatology in Göttingen. In 1974 Goertz became senior scientific adviser in Hamburg and in 1982 professor for social and economic history at the University of Hamburg , where he worked until his retirement in 2002. In 1986 he held a visiting professorship at the University of Bern for one semester . Goertz has given guest lectures at Oxford, Cambridge, St. Andrews, Liverpool, New York, Yale and Harvard.

Hans-Jürgen Goertz was chairman of the Thomas Müntzer Society from 2008 to 2016 , and is currently deputy chairman. He is also the co-editor of the Mennonite history sheets published by the Mennonite History Association . Since 2007 Goertz has published the fifth volume of the Mennonite Lexicon .

Due to his research, Goertz is considered an expert , especially on the history of the Reformation . In 2004 Goertz presented an overview volume on German history between 1500 and 1648. Goertz published a biography about Thomas Müntzer in 2015 . It is a revised and expanded version of his Müntzer biography published in 1989. Goertz has dealt with the term anti-clericalism in numerous publications .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Detours between the pulpit and the chair. Autobiographical Fragments. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-525-57064-7 .
  • Thomas Müntzer. Revolutionary at the end of time. CH Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-68163-9 .
  • John Howard Yoder - Radical Pacifism in Conversation. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-57032-6 ( publisher information ).
  • Menno Simons and the Early Anabaptists. Three lectures (= supplements to the Mennonite history sheets. Vol. 1). With two sermons in memory of Menno Simons by Hans-Jochen Jaschke and Christoph Wiebe. Mennonite History Association, Bolanden 2011, ISBN 978-3-921881-31-6 .
  • Fragments of radical theology today. An account. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-56005-1 .
  • Radicality of the Reformation. Essays and treatises (= research on church and dogma history. Vol. 93). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-55200-1 .
  • Germany 1500–1648. A divided world (= UTB 2606 story ). Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2004, ISBN 3-8252-2606-9 .
  • Konrad Grebel. A radical in the Zurich Reformation. A biographical sketch. TVZ - Theological Publishing House Zurich, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-290-17317-8 .
  • Unsure story. On the theory of historical referentiality (= Reclams Universal Library. Bd. 17035). Reclam, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-15-017035-4 .
  • Konrad Grebel - critic of the pious appearance. 1498-1526. A biographical sketch. Kümpers et al., Hamburg et al. 1998, ISBN 3-930435-21-7 .
  • Anti-clericalism and Reformation. Social historical studies (= Kleine Vandenhoeck series. Vol. 1571). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995, ISBN 3-525-33595-4 .
  • Dealing with history. An introduction to the theory of history (= Rowohlt's Encyclopedia 555 Cultures and Ideas ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-55555-7 .
  • Religious Movements in the Early Modern Age (= Encyclopedia of German History . Vol. 20). Oldenbourg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-486-55759-9 .
  • Thomas Müntzer. Mystic, apocalyptic, revolutionary Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33612-4 .
  • Parish hatred and great shouting. The Reformation Movements in Germany. 1517-1529. Beck, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-406-32195-X .
  • The Anabaptists. History and interpretation. Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-07909-1 .
  • Internal and external order in the theology of Thomas Müntzer (= Studies in the History of Christian Thought. Vol. 2, ISSN  0081-8607 ). Brill, Leiden 1967 (at the same time: Göttingen, University, dissertation from July 25, 1964).

Editorships

  • with James M. Stayer : Radicality and Dissent in the 16th Century. = Radicalism and Dissent in the Sixteenth Century (= journal for historical research. Supplement. Vol. 27). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-428-10744-6 .
  • with Eike Wolgast : Siegfried Bräuer : Mocking poems, dreams and polemics in the early years of the Reformation. Treatises and essays. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 3-374-01834-3 .
  • History. A basic course (= Rororo. Pocket books. 55576). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-499-55576-X .
  • Everything belongs to everyone. The experiment community of goods from the 16th century to today (= Beck'sche Schwarze Reihe. Vol. 289). Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-09289-6 .
  • Radical reformers. 21 biographical sketches from Thomas Müntzer to Paracelsus (= Beck'sche Schwarze Reihe. Vol. 183). Beck, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-406-06783-2 .
  • Controversial Anabaptism. 1525-1975. New research. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975, ISBN 3-525-55354-4 .

literature

  • Norbert Fischer , Marion Kobelt-Groch (ed.): Outsiders between the Middle Ages and the modern age. Festschrift for Hans-Jürgen Goertz on the occasion of his 60th birthday (= Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought. Vol. 61). Brill, Leiden et al. 1997, ISBN 90-04-10498-4 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Thomas Müntzer: Internal and external order in the theology of Thomas Müntzer. Leiden 1967.
  2. ↑ From Amman to Zwingli - Mennonite Lexicon goes online. Mennonews.de, accessed on July 7, 2010 .
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Goertz: Thomas Müntzer. Mystic, apocalyptic, revolutionary. Munich 1989.
  4. ↑ See Hans-Jürgen Goertz: Pfaffenhaß and great shouts. The Reformation Movements in Germany 1517–1529. Munich 1987; Ders .: Anti-clericalism and Reformation: socio-historical studies. Goettingen 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Goertz, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mennonite theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Fronza in West Prussia