Hermann Seifermann

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Hermann Seifermann (born April 18, 1925 in Neusatz / Bühl ; † January 16, 2013 in Munich ) was a German theologian and university professor.

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Hermann Seifermann came from a religious family and had five siblings. His school education was completed in the Rastatt and Konstanz Konvikte and Abitur. During the Second World War he was obliged to do military service from 1943 and after being wounded in 1945 he was taken prisoner of war.

After studying theology in Freiburg and Munich he received on 25 May 1952 at the Freiburg Cathedral , the priesthood and then worked in parishes in Sinsheim, Mingolsheim and Offenburg. From 1955 he was prefect at the Archbishop's High School Convict St. Fidelis in Sigmaringen and held this position for about two years. Afterwards he was vicar in Hechingen until 1959 and also taught there as a religion teacher at the grammar school.

In 1959 he entered the oratorio of St. Philipp Neri in Munich. He completed a degree in Near Eastern languages in Jerusalem and then taught at the Institute for Catechetics and Homiletics in Munich as a college teacher for exegesis of the Old Testament and didactics of Bible teaching.

From 1979 to 1990 Seifermann was a professor in the University of Applied Sciences course in religious education and church education at the Catholic University of Eichstätt . At the same time he was a priest in the parish of St. Laurentius in Munich-Gern .

Publications

  • The discovery of God in the Bible , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-1413-2
  • How to speak of God today? the Bible as an aid to faith , Adlerstein Verlag, Wiesmoor 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-3521-6
  • The cult of Israel in its main beginnings at the time of David , Adlerstein-Verlag, Wiesmoor 2014, ISBN 978-3-945462-03-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Hermann Seifermann (1925-2013), Vita. In: Parish of St. Laurentius, Munich. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  2. Eichstätt: Hermann Seifermann died. In: Eichstätter Kurier. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .