Hans Georg Thümmel

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Hans Georg Thümmel (born March 5, 1932 in Görlitz ) is a German Protestant theologian , Christian archaeologist , art and church historian .

Hans Georg Thümmel graduated from high school in 1950 and began studying Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig in 1950 and moved to the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald a year later , where he also studied art history , classical archeology and philosophy . In 1955 he became a graduate theologian and from February 1956 to August 1961 a research assistant, among others with Klaus Wessel . The doctorate in theology took place in December 1959 on the subject of Judas Iscariot in the judgment of the early church writers of the West and in early Christian art . In 1960 he became a lecturer in Christian archeology and the history of church art, and in September 1961 he was senior research assistant at the Victor Schultze Institute at EMAU. In October 1967, habilitated Thümmel with studies of early Christian funerary art . In 1988 he became an associate professor for church history and Christian archeology at EMAU, and in 1990 he became a substitute professor for Christian archeology at the Philipps University of Marburg . In the same year he also became a member of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt . From October 1990 to 1997 Thümmel taught as professor for church history, Christian archeology and the history of church art at EMAU. In 1992 he received his doctorate again, now for art history, with studies on group painting in Marburg. In 1997 he retired.

Fonts

  • The Church of the East in the 3rd and 4th centuries , Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1988 (Church history in individual representations: 1, Old Church and the early Middle Ages, Vol. 4) ISBN 3-374-00466-0
  • Pictorial doctrine and picture dispute. Work on the discussion about the icon and its justification, mainly in the 8th and 9th centuries , Augustinus, Würzburg 1991 (The Eastern Christianity, NF, Vol. 40) ISBN 3-7613-0164-2
  • The early history of the Eastern Church image theory. Texts and investigations prior to the Bilderstreit , Akademie, Berlin 1992 (Texts and investigations on the history of early Christian literature, vol. 139) ISBN 3-05-000828-8
  • The Memories for Peter and Paul in Rome. The archaeological monuments and the literary tradition , de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1999 (work on church history, vol. 76) ISBN 3-11-016642-9
  • The councils on the question of images in the 8th and 9th centuries. The 7th Ecumenical Council in Nikaia 787 , Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2005 ISBN 3-506-71374-4
  • The Dean's Office Book of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Greifswald 1456–1662 , Steiner, Stuttgart 2008 (Contributions to the History of the University of Greifswald, Vol. 9) ISBN 978-3-515-09014-8
  • Greifswald - history and stories. The city, its churches and its university , Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2011 ISBN 978-3-506-76720-2

literature

  • Adolf Martin Ritter (Ed.): "... at the time or at the wrong time". Studies of late antique theology, intellectual and art history and their aftermath. In honor of Hans Georg Thümmel. Ed. Cicero, Mandelbachtal u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-934285-52-X ( Texts and studies in the history of theology. Vol. 9).
  • Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , pp. 597-598.
  • Christfried Böttrich (Ed.): Karpoi. Selected essays. Patristic, philosophy, Christian art (1966–2004). For the 75th birthday. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56451-6 ( Greifswald theological research. Vol. 14).
  • Christfried Böttrich (Red.): “For his 75th birthday”. Ceremony Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Georg Thümmel. Rector of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald 2007, ISBN 978-3-86006-289-0 ( Greifswald University Speeches . NF No. 125).

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