Hans-Josef Klauck

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Hans-Josef Klauck OFM (born June 4, 1946 in Hermeskeil ) is a German Catholic New Testament scholar .

biography

Klauck attended the humanistic grammar school in the college of the Cologne Franciscan Province in Baexem-Exaten near Roermond (Netherlands) until 1966 . After graduating from high school, he entered the Franciscan order on April 21, 1966 , studied philosophy and theology in Munich, Münster and Bonn and was ordained a priest on July 15, 1972 in Münster . He then worked as a pastor in the parish of St. Pankratius in Buldern and carried out biblical and Judaic studies at the University of Münster .

From 1975 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Biblical Exegesis at the University of Munich (Professor Joachim Gnilka ) and received his doctorate there in 1977. He then worked as an assistant at the institute and completed his habilitation in 1980. From 1981 to 1982, Klauck was Professor of New Testament at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn , then until 1997 Professor of New Testament at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Würzburg and until 2001 at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Munich . From 1999 to 2003 he was also an honorary professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.

Klauck was appointed to the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2001 , where he is a professor, since 2006 on the Naomi Shenston Donnelley Chair for "New Testament and Early Christian Literature". From 2003 to 2004 he was President of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas . In 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich .

Works (selection)

  • The first letter of John. (= Evangelical-Catholic Commentary on the New Testament, Vol. 23.1) Zurich, Braunschweig, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1991, 978-3-545-23122-1.
  • The second and third letters of John. (= Evangelical-Catholic Commentary on the New Testament, Vol. 23.2) Zurich, Braunschweig, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1992, ISBN 978-3-545-23123-8 .
  • The religious environment of early Christianity. Vol. 1: 1. City and house religion, mystery cults, popular belief. Vol., 2: Rulers and imperial cults, philosophy, gnosis. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne 1995/1996.
  • Magic and Paganism in the Acts of Luke. Catholic Bible work, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-460-04671-9 .
  • The ancient letter literature and the New Testament. A textbook and workbook. (= UTB 2022) Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn, Munich, Vienna 1998, ISBN 978-3-8252-2022-8 .
  • Apocryphal Gospels. An introduction. 3rd edition, Katholisches Bibelwerk, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-460-33180-8 .

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The University of Chicago Divinity School: Faculty Profiles: Hans-Josef Klauck. [1]
personal data
SURNAME Klauck, Hans-Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Hermeskeil