Hans Vöcking

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Hans Vöcking WV (born February 15, 1940 in Gronau, Westphalia ) is a German religious and scholar of Islam.

Life

After attending elementary school in Gronau, Hans Vöcking completed a commercial apprenticeship and then graduated from high school. He studied at the religious school of the White Fathers in Trier philosophy and the Belgian Lion Catholic theology . After Vöcking had joined the Mission Society of the White Fathers and had been ordained a priest, he went to Algeria in 1970 to study Arabic and Islamic studies , to Rome in 1971 and back to Algeria in 1973.

In 1974 Hans Vöcking became head of a documentation center for development policy issues in Oran (Algeria). From 1978 he headed the Christian-Islamic meeting and documentation center (CIBEDO) newly founded by the White Fathers in Frankfurt / Main for 20 years ; As a specialist unit of the German Bishops' Conference since 1998, it has promoted inter-religious dialogue and the coexistence of Christians and Muslims. From 1998 he taught at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic Studies in Rome.

Hans Vöcking was approved by the 2002 Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community as a consultant and as an expert for the Christian-Islamic dialogue of Brussels called. Hans Vöcking has lived in Cologne since 2013. For his contribution to the promotion of Christian-Muslim dialogue in Germany and in Europe, he was the most April 29, 2014 Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy and Theology College Vallendar (PThv) of Pallottiner awarded in October 2014, the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

Fonts

  • Michael Mildenberger, Hans Vöcking (ed.): Islamic and Christian festivals (= contributions to work with foreigners, volume 6). Lembeck, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-87476-218-1
  • Hans Vöcking, Hans Zirker, Udo Tworuschka , Abdoldjavad Falaturi : Analysis of Catholic religious books on the subject of Islam (Studies on international textbook research. Series of publications by the Georg Eckert Institute, edited by E. Henrichs, Volume 53: Islam in the textbooks of the Federal Republic Germany, edited by A. Falaturi, part 3), Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-88304-253-6
  • Hans Vöcking (Ed.): Nostra Aetate and the Muslims. A documentation. Herder, Freiburg i. Br., Basel, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30391-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See archived copy ( memento of the original from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cibedo.de
  2. ↑ See http://www.kontektiven-media.org/downloads/0111-interview.pdf and archived copy ( memento of the original from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cibedo.de
  3. ↑ Cf. http://www.katholische-theologie.info/Home/EhrendoktordienstleistungenefürProfDrHansVöcking/tabid/429/Default.aspx
  4. ↑ See continents. The magazine of the Africa missionaries - White Fathers, 1-2015, XII
personal data
SURNAME Voecking, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious and scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Gronau , Westphalia