Hermann Dörries

Hermann Dörries (born July 17, 1895 in Hanover , † November 2, 1977 in Göttingen ) was a church historian and patrologist in Göttingen .

Life

Hermann Dörries, the son of the theologian Georg Bernhard Adolf Dörries (1856-1934), was a student of Adolf Jülicher and Karl Müller and received his doctorate in 1922 at the Philipps University of Marburg . The habilitation in church history took place in Tübingen in 1923 . At the same time he began to teach there as a private lecturer. In 1926 he took over an extraordinary professorship for church history in Tübingen. In 1928 he followed a call to Halle . Dörries lived and taught in Göttingen from 1929 until his retirement as a full professor. On May 1, 1933, he was the NSDAP ( membership number2,372,330). In 1941 he was elected a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Dörries and his colleagues sifted through and collected the writings of Makarios / Symeon ; his opinion that a certain Symeon from Mesopotamia is the author of the Makarios homilies has largely prevailed.

Fonts

Germanic religion and conversion to the Saxons. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1934.
Symeon of Mesopotamia. The transmission of the Messalian "Makarios" scriptures. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1941. ( Texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature 55, 1)
Judgment and condemnation. Church and Messalians. How the Old Church dealt with heretics. In: word and hour. Vol. 1. Collected Studies on Church History of the Fourth Century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966, pp. 334–351.
Karl Suso Frank (Ed.): Diadochus. Feeling for God. A hundred chapters on Christian perfection. Einsiedeln 1982, p. 25f.
Constantine the Great. 2nd Edition. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1967.

literature

Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , pp. 272f

Web links

Literature by and about Hermann Dörries in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Hermann Dörries in the German Digital Library
Entry on Hermann Dörries in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis

Individual evidence

↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 71.

personal data
SURNAME	Dörries, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German church historian and patrologist in Göttingen
DATE OF BIRTH	July 17, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	November 2nd 1977
Place of death	Goettingen

[1] Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 71.