Johannes Hehn

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Johannes Ferdinand Hehn (born January 4, 1873 in Burghausen near Münnerstadt , † May 9, 1932 in Würzburg ) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and theologian and rector of the University of Würzburg .

Life

Johannes Hehn, son of a farming family, studied Catholic theology at the Würzburg University. In 1895 he was a co-founder of the Catholic student association KDStV Gothia Würzburg . In 1898 he was ordained a priest. In 1899 he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD. After studying Semitic Philology , especially Assyriology with Friedrich Delitzsch , he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In 1903 he qualified as a professor for Exegesis of the Old Testament.

He has taught as a private lecturer since 1903 and in 1907 was appointed to the chair of Old Testament exegesis and biblical-oriental languages ​​at the University of Würzburg, succeeding Anton von Scholz . In the 1920s he was considered to be “probably the most important Catholic researcher” in his field. In 1925 he turned down an offer to Breslau.

Hehn held the rector's office of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg several times (winter semester 1912/13; summer semester 1913 and 1915; 1928 to 1929)

Honors

Fonts

  • The institution of the Holy Communion as proof of the divinity of Christ , 1900 (Kessinger new edition 2010, ISBN 1-161-28805-8 )
  • Hymns and prayers to Marduk with an introduction on the religious historical significance of Marduk , August Fries 1903
  • Sin and redemption. According to Biblical and Babylonian views , JH Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung Leipzig 1903
  • Seven and the Sabbath in the Babylonians and in the Old Testament , 1907
  • Paths to Monotheism , 1913
  • The biblical and the Babylonian idea of ​​God. The Israelite conception of God in the light of ancient oriental religious history , 1913 (new edition by Pacs Verlag 2013, ISBN 3-95635-018-9 )
  • The fall of the ancient Orient. Speech to celebrate the 346th anniversary of the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, held on May 11, 1928. With the chronicle of the university for the academic year 1927/28

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Würzburg Today: Journal for Culture and Economy, Issues 37-40 , Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 1984, p. 110 ff.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon: The 20th Century , Walter de Gruyter, 2010, p. 392 f.
  3. ↑ Peter Baumgart, Peter A. Süss: Pictures of the lives of important Würzburg professors , Degener & Company, 1995, p. 297 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Hehn, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hehn, Johannes Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic clergyman, Old Testament scholar and university rector
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghausen near Münnerstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1932
Place of death Wurzburg