Hans-Joachim Klimkeit

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Hans-Joachim Klimkeit (* July 22, 1939 in Ranchi , India ; † February 7, 1999 ) was a comparative religious scholar .

Hans Joachim Klimkeit came from a missionary family. His father Johannes Klimkeit worked for the Gossner Mission in India. He passed the Abitur at the Söderblom-Gymnasium in Espelkamp . He then studied Protestant theology, mathematics, Indology (especially with Helmuth von Glasenapp ) and comparative religious studies in Neuendettelsau , Tübingen, Bonn and Harvard . He did his doctorate and habilitation under Gustav Mensching in Bonn and in 1972, as the successor to this most important Rudolf Otto student, he became Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Bonn . He also became director of the Bonn seminar for comparative religious studies. In 1978 he became co-editor of the ZRGG, 1987 co-editor of the TRE. As a result of a serious illness, he died on February 7, 1999, leaving behind three sons: Dirk, Bernd and Kai.

His main research areas in religious studies were Eastern Manichaeism , Buddhism , Gnosis and problem-oriented religious phenomenology .

Awards

1985 member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Works (selection)

  • Ludwig Feuerbach's understanding of miracles from a religious-phenomenological perspective. Bonn 1965.
  • Bibliography of Manichaean materials. New York 1980
  • Manichean Art and Calligraphy. 1982
  • Ed .: Image of the gods in art and writing. 1985
  • The silk road. Trade route and cultural bridge between east and west. Cologne 1988
  • The Buddha - life and teaching. 1990
  • together with Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (ed.): Japanese studies on eastern Manichaeism. 1991
  • Gnosis on the Silk Road Gnostic Texts from Central Asia. 1993
  • Ed .: Death and the afterlife in the faith of the peoples. 1994
  • To the content of the old Turkish Maitrisimit. In: Suhrllekhah. Festival for Helmut Eimer. Swisttal-Odendorf 1996 (Indica et Tibetica 28), pp. 111-119
  • Manichean Art on the Silk Road. Old and new finds. Opladen 1996 (North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Lectures G 338)
  • together with Manfred Heuser: Studies in Manichean Literature and Art. (Nag Hammadi and Manichean Studies XLVI) 1998
  • together with Geng Shimin, JP Laut: A Buddhist Apocalypse. The chapters of Hell (20-25) and the final chapters (16-27) of the Hami manuscript of the old Turkish Maitrisimit. Opladen 1998 (ARWAW 103)
  • together with Ian Gillman: Christians in Asia before 1500. 1999

literature

  • Wolfgang Gantke / Karl Hoheisel / Wassilios Klein (eds.): Religious encounter and cultural exchange in Asia. Studies in memory of Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2002 (= Studies in Oriental Religions 49)
  • Ulrich Vollmer: Bibliography H.-J. Climate. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 51,3 (1999), pp. 263–280
  • Hans-Joachim Klimkeit, in: Udo Tworuschka: Religionswissenschaft. Trailblazer and classic, UTB 3492, Cologne-Weimar-Wien 2011, pp. 352–365

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personal data
SURNAME Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German comparative religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Ranchi , India
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1999