Heinrich Greeven

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Heinrich Greeven (born October 4, 1906 in Thorn ; † June 7, 1990 in Bochum ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor who u. a. researched very intensively in the field of textual criticism . The synopsis , which he edited several times, is well known .

Life

After graduating from high school in Bad Kreuznach and studying Protestant theology , Greeven worked as a student pastor at the University of Greifswald from 1930 and was able to do a doctorate and habilitation there . As a member of the Confessing Church , he was transferred to Heidelberg University in 1937 . After military service and imprisonment, he became pastor in Heidelberg- Wieblingen in 1947 , associate professor in Heidelberg in 1948, lecturer in 1950 and professor at the Bethel Theological School in 1954 . From there he moved to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel as a full professor in 1956 , where he was rector in 1960/61 . From 1964 until his retirement in 1972 he taught at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum . There, too, he was rector from October 15, 1965 to October 14, 1967.

He was a member of the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians (ÖAK) for years and contributed to publications.

Fonts (selection)

  • Prayer and eschatology in the New Testament . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1931 (also Diss. Greifswald).
  • The main problem of social ethics in the newer Stoa and in early Christianity . Gütersloher publishing house Mohn, Gütersloh 1935 (also Habil. Greifswald).
  • The original text of the New Testament . Hirt, Kiel 1960.
  • Marriage according to the New Testament in theology of marriage , p. 37 ff, publishers Friedrich Pustet Regensburg and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, 1969
  • Textual review of the Gospel of Mark (2005, completed by Eberhard Güting after Greeven's death).

As editor

  • Martin Dibelius : To the Colossians, Ephesians, to Philemon (New Testament Handbook 12). 3rd edition Mohr, Tübingen 1953.
  • Martin Dibelius: Essays on the Acts of the Apostles . 2., unchanged. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1953.
  • The woman at work . Furche-Verlag, Hamburg 1954.
  • Martin Dibelius: The letter of James (critical-exegetical commentary on the New Testament; 15). 8th, through With a supplementary booklet. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1956.
  • Albert Huck : Synopsis of the first three Gospels: with the addition of the Johannine parallel passages . 13., completely reworked. Ed. Mohr, Tübingen 1981.

literature

  • Wolfgang Schrage (ed.): Studies on the text and ethics of the New Testament: Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Heinrich Greeven . de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1986.
  • Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919–1949 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, p. 91.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Greeven in the Kiel list of scholars; accessed on September 2, 2016.
  2. ^ Ruhr University Bochum Rectorates
  3. ↑ Theology of Marriage . At the 29th conference with contributions from Rudolf Schnackenburg , Heinrich Greeven, Joseph Ratzinger , Heinz-Dietrich Wendland ; List of members of the working group, documents of the churches on marriage and marriage, publishers Friedrich Pustet Regensburg and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Göttingen, 1969
personal data
SURNAME Greeven, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1990
Place of death Bochum