Hartmut Schmökel

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Hartmut Schmökel (born April 17, 1906 in Waldenburg , Lower Silesia, † August 6, 1991 in Northeim ) was a German Old Testament scholar and Old Orientalist .

Life

Schmökel attended the humanistic grammar school in Waldenburg up to the Abitur in 1924 and then studied in Breslau , Heidelberg , Rostock and again in Heidelberg Protestant theology , philosophy and oriental studies . On February 2, 1928 he was at the University of Heidelberg in Albrecht Goetze Dr. phil. PhD , 1930 at the University of Breslau as Dr. theol. From 1929 to 1932 he was an assistant at the Old Testament seminary at the University of Berlin . On July 27, 1932, he completed his habilitation with Anton Jirku in Breslau and, as his successor, was a regular associate professor for the Old Testament at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Breslau from 1935 . In 1936 he received a call to the University of Kiel , but read in Breslau until the winter semester of 1936/37. In Kiel he taught as a full professor for the Old Testament and ancient oriental auxiliary sciences . From 1938 to 1940 he was dean of the theological faculty.

Schmökel was a member of the NSDAP and represented the views of the German Christians . He considered the Hurrians (specifically Hurric Aryans also known as the Aryans of the Mitanni Empire) for the first Aryans in the ancient Orient (1938) and was a member of a working group at the Eisenach Institute to research and eliminate the Jewish influence on German church life .

In the Soviet occupation zone , Schmökel's 1938 Old Testament and today's Judaism was placed on the list of literature to be segregated.

On April 1, 1951, Schmökel was released. After that he was mainly active as an author of non-fiction books in the field of Oriental Studies , some of which were reprinted several times and translated into French, Italian and Dutch.

Fonts (selection)

  • The god Dagan. Origin, distribution and essence of his cult. Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1928 (also dissertation at the philosophical faculty of the University of Heidelberg, 1928).
  • Applied law in the Old Testament. An examination of its relationship to the codified law of Israel and the ancient Orient. Noske, Borna-Leipzig 1930 (also dissertation at the theological faculty of the University of Breslau, 1930).
  • Yahweh and the foreign peoples. The development of a religious idea (= Breslau studies on theology and religious history. Vol. 1). Maruschke and Berendt, Breslau 1934 (also habilitation thesis at the University of Breslau, 1932).
  • Old Testament and today's Judaism (= collection of generally understandable lectures and writings from the field of theology and religious history. Vol. 182). Mohr, Tübingen 1936.
  • The first Aryans in the ancient Orient. Curt Kabitzsch, Leipzig 1938.
  • Ur, Assur and Babylon: 3 millennia in Mesopotamia. Kilpper, Stuttgart 1955.
  • The land of Sumer: The rediscovery of the first high culture of mankind (= Urban books. Vol. 13). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955.
  • Holy wedding and song of songs (= treatises for the knowledge of the Orient. Vol. 32,1). Steiner in Komm., Wiesbaden 1956.
  • History of the ancient Near East. In: Cuneiform research and ancient history of the Middle East. Section 3, Brill, Leiden 1957.
  • Hammurabi of Babylon: The Establishment of an Empire. Oldenbourg, Munich 1958.
  • Finds in Mesopotamia. Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1963.
  • The Gilgamesh Epic. Introduced, rhythmically transferred and annotated by Hartmut Schmökel. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966.

literature

  • Rykle Borger : Hartmut Schmökel. In: Archive for Orient Research . Vol. 38/39 (1991/92), p. 268.
  • Nejat Göyünç: Nekroloji: Hartmut Schmökel. In: Anadolu araştırmaları. Yearbook for Research on Asia Minor. Vol. 13 (1994), p. 267 f. ( online ).
  • Friedrich Volbehr , Richard Weyl: Professors and lecturers at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel 1665–1954. 4th edition. Hirt, Kiel 1956, No. IA 77 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Hartmut Schmökel's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Dietrich Meyer: The Protestant theological faculty in Breslau in the years 1933 to 1935 , in: Peter Maser (ed.): The church struggle in the German East and in the German-speaking churches of Eastern Europe. (Church in the East: Monograph series 22) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1992 ISBN 9783525564400 , p. 113.
  3. ^ Susannah Heschel : The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2008 ISBN 9780691125312 , p. 100
  4. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet zone of occupation: List of the literature to be sorted out. Second supplement, Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948 letter S online
personal data
SURNAME Schmökel, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Old Testament scholar and ancient orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1991
Place of death Northeim