Hansjörg Rigger

Hansjörg Rigger (born March 6, 1959 in Brixen ) is an Italian Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1978, he entered the Brixen seminary and studied theology in Brixen, Münster and Innsbruck . After his ordination on June 26, 1983, he studied Biblical Studies and Oriental Languages ​​at the Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome , Washington, DC and Jerusalem from 1983 to 1986 . From 1986 to 1991 he was a research assistant at the chair for the Old Testament of the Trier Theological Faculty . During this time he was chaplain in the monastery of the Capuchin Poor Clares on Trier's Petrisberg. From 1991 he teaches as a lecturer for the New Testament at the PTH in Brixen , from 1996 professor for the New Testament. From 1999 he was director of the Brixen theological courses and from 2004 dean of the PTH Brixen for two legislative periods (of two years each). From 1991 to 1998 he was a cooperator in the deanery parish of Castelrotto on weekends . Since 1991 he has been the commissioner for Bible pastoral care in the diocese of Bozen-Brixen . Since 2014 he has been the spiritual assistant of the Camillian Family in the Apostolate of the Blind in the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen.

His specializations are apocalyptic literature or biblical apocalyptic, Bible pastoral work and the theologians Benedict XVI. , Hans Urs von Balthasar and Henri de Lubac .

Fonts (selection)

• Seventy sevens: the "prophecy of the week" in Dan 9 (= Trier theological studies , volume 57). Paulinus, Trier 1997, ISBN 3-7902-1285-7 (also dissertation, Trier 1996).

Web links

• Heiligenkreuz University of Applied Sciences