Jörg Kniffka

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Jörg Kniffka (born June 29, 1941 in Schmallenberg ; † July 27, 2008 ) was a German pastor, theologian, sociologist and university professor.

Life

Kniffka was born in Schmallenberg in 1941. His parents were the painter Heinrich Kniffka and his wife Helene nee. Bartkewitz. After graduating from high school in Meschede in 1961 , he studied sociology, theology and history in Münster. In 1971 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Münster . From October 1, 1972 to 2003, Kniffka was Professor of Sociology and Social Ethics at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt . During this time he was Vice Rector, Dean of the Department of Church Practice and Chairman of the Convention. He also received his doctorate in 2002 as Dr. theol. at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Tübingen . Jörg Kniffka died in 2008.

Publications

  • Jörg Kniffka: Church life in East Berlin in the mid-twenties. A study of church participation and its motivation in Protestant workers' congregations from 1924 to 1927. Dissertation, Münster 1971
  • Jörg Kniffka (Ed.): Martyria - Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Peter Beyerhaus . SCM R. Brockhaus, 1989, ISBN 3417246059
  • Jörg Kniffka: Apologetics and Church - The contemporary attitudes to the Evangelical Church as a task of a renewed Apologetics and Apology . Dissertation, 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kniffka, Jörg. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Jörg Kniffka: Church life in East Berlin in the mid-twenties. An examination of church participation and its motivation in Protestant workers' congregations from 1924 to 1927, p. 287
  3. ↑ Newspaper of the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, No. 17 March 2003, p. 6, online version
personal data
SURNAME Kniffka, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, theologian, sociologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmallenberg
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2008