Hans Windisch (theologian)

Hans Windisch (born April 25, 1881 in Leipzig , † November 8, 1935 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar and professor of theology at three universities.

Life

Hans Ludwig Windisch was the fourth of five children of the linguist and university professor Ernst Windisch and his wife Berta, née Roscher. He attended the public school and grammar school in Leipzig and studied theology and philosophy at the universities of Leipzig , Marburg and Berlin . From 1904 to 1905 he did his military service and was dismissed as a non-commissioned officer .

In 1906 Windisch received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the University of Leipzig, in 1908 he received his licentiate . In the same year he qualified as a professor in New Testament theology and initially worked as a religion teacher in Leipzig. In 1914 Windisch became a full professor of the New Testament and early Christian literature at the University of Leiden , where he developed extensive teaching and research activities. During his time in Leiden he made connections to international specialist science and wrote a. a. Commentaries and monographs. As early as 1912, Windisch founded the series Scientific Studies on the New Testament , of which he remained editor until 1934.

In 1929 he followed a call to the University of Kiel and, after the death of Ernst von Dobschütz in 1935, to the University of Halle , where he died in November after the summer semester of 1935 at the age of 54. He was buried in the Laurentiusfriedhof .

Fonts (selection)

• The meaning of the Sermon on the Mount - a contribution to the problem of correct exegesis. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1937
• Paul and Judaism. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1935
• The tegenwoordige stand of het Christ problem. van Gorcum, Assen 1925
• The fall of Jerusalem (anno 70) in the judgment of Christians and Jews. Doesburgh, Leiden 1914
• Festival of the dead in the war year. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1914
• The latest revisions of New Testament theology and the two leitmotifs of early Christianity. Diuterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1912
• The piety of Philos and its significance for Christianity - a study of the history of religion. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1909
• The messianic war and early Christianity. Mohr, Tübingen 1909
• Baptism and sin in the oldest Christianity up to Origen - a contribution to the history of early Christian dogma. Mohr, Tübingen 1908

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 10, Page 524
• Friedrich Wilhelm Horn : Hans Windisch. Theologian, exegete and religious historian at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (1929-1935). In: Swantje Rinker, Felix John (Ed.): Exegese in their time. Interpretation of New Testament texts. Portraits, compiled on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Pages 141–157, Evang. Verlag-Anstalt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-374-04170-1 .
• Christian Stephan: The silent faculty - Biographical contributions to the history of the theological faculty of the University of Halle. Pages 163-166; Janos Stekovics, Dößel 2005. ISBN 3-89923-103-1
• Klaus-Gunther Wesseling :  WINDISCH, Hans. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 1375-1381.

Web links

• Entry on Hans Windisch in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• Overview of Hans Windisch's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1908 to summer semester 1914)
• Entry on Hans Windisch in Kalliope
• Hans Windisch in the German biography
• Writings by Hans Windisch in the Index theologicus