Henneke Gülzow

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Henneke Gülzow (born February 14, 1938 in the Free City of Danzig ; † April 1, 1997 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and professor of church and dogma history.

Life

Gülzow, who got his first name Henneke after the main character of the novel Mein Recht by Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl , was one of five children of the pastor of the Danzig Marienkirche Gerhard M. Gülzow . His childhood was marked by his flight in 1945 and a new beginning in Lübeck , where he graduated from high school at the Katharineum in Lübeck and sang in the Lübeck Knabenkantorei .

He studied Protestant theology and received his doctorate in theology from the University of Kiel in 1966 . His extended dissertation was published in 1969 under the title Christianity and Slavery in the first three centuries and is now considered a standard work. In 1971 he completed his habilitation with a study on Cyprian and Novatian .

From 1977 on, Gülzow held the chair for church and dogma history with a focus on patristics at the University of Hamburg . His research focus was the early social history of Christianity. He died in 1997 after a serious illness.

Works

  • Church and Slavery in the First Two Centuries: With Special Reference to the Roman Community. Kiel 1966 (mach.); Theol. F., Diss. V. July 26, 1966
extended version:
  • Christianity and Slavery in the First Three Centuries. Bonn: Habelt, 1969.
Reprint as:
  • Selected Works, Vol. 1: Christianity and Slavery in the First Three Centuries. With an afterword by Gerd Theißen . Münster etc .: LIT 1999 (Hamburg theological studies; Vol. 16) ISBN 3-8258-3902-8
  • Cyprian and Novatian: the correspondence between the parishes in Rome and Carthage at the time of the persecution of the Emperor Decius. Tübingen: Mohr 1975 (contributions to historical theology; 48)
  • Church history and present. Studies, essays, sermons, meditations. Selected Works (Volume 2) Edited by Bärbel Dauber, Wolfgang Grünberg , Holger Hammerich, Eckhard Reichert. Münbster etc .: LIT 1999 (Hamburger Theologische Studien, Vol. 17) ISBN 3-8258-3903-6

literature

  • Wolfgang Wischmeyer: In Memoriam Henneke Gülzow (1938–1997) , in: Hans Höhne: Johan Melchior Goeze. Station of a career as an argument. Münster 2004 (Forgotten Theologians 3), pp. 11-14

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