Hans-Jürgen Greschat

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Hans-Jürgen Greschat (born March 3, 1927 in Insterburg , East Prussia ) is a German religious scholar .

Life

After a commercial apprenticeship , which was interrupted by the Second World War , he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he passed a special exam in Wiesbaden. After that he began to study theology. Initially two semesters in Frankfurt, later in Marburg, where he studied religious history in the early 1950s, represented by Friedrich Heiler. The latter may have created an orientation that was further embodied in Hans-Jürgen Greschat, even if it was a novelty at the time. He then studied Protestant theology and the history of religion at the University of Marburg . With an investigation into its origin, extent and religion of the Watch Tower movement in Central Africa , he was in 1966 at Ernst Dammann at the University of Marburg Dr. theol. PhD. From 1966 to 1972 he was Dammann's research assistant. With a thesis on West African prophets in 1971 at the University of Marburg, the habilitation for religious history followed. From 1972 to 1989 he was professor for religious studies (religious history) at the theological faculty of the University of Marburg.

One of his main research areas is Buddhism .

Works (selection)

  • On the way to foreign religions. ISBN 978-3-943556-42-1
  • What is religious studies? Stuttgart 1988.
  • Collecting heavenly treasures. In: Tradition and Translation. On the problem of the intercultural translatability of religious phenomena. Festschrift for Carsten Colpe on his 65th birthday, ed. by Christoph Elsas et al., Berlin, New York 1994, pp. 84-95

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Semester opening of the Department of Protestant Theology on April 18, 2017 in the auditorium of the Old University of Marburg Lecture by Prof. Dr. Bärbel Beinhauer-Koehler: “Escape. In search of traces in medieval Cairo ”. Following: Appreciation of the religious scholar Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Greschat on his 90th birthday. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Greschat, Hans-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg , East Prussia