Johannes Hempel (theologian, 1891)

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Johannes Hempel (born July 30, 1891 in Bärenstein , † December 9, 1964 in Göttingen ) was a German theologian and university professor .

Life

Hempel grew up as a pastor's son in Dippoldiswalde and attended the Kreuzgymnasium Dresden . He studied from 1910 to 1914 at the theological and philosophical faculty in Leipzig . Rudolf Kittel and Nathan Söderblom were among his teachers . Hempel received his doctorate in philosophy in 1914.

As a participant in the First World War , he was captured by the French . In 1920 he accepted a position as assistant in Halle (Saale) and earned his licentiate in theology. Hempel completed his habilitation in October of the same year for Old Testament science in Halle.

In 1924 he was appointed associate professor . From 1925 to 1928 he held the chair for the Old Testament at the University of Greifswald and then took over from Alfred Bertholet in Göttingen . In 1927 he was made an honorary member by the Society for Old Testament Study and in 1933 by the Society for Biblical Literature .

In November 1933 Hempel was one of the signatories of the professors' commitment at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist state . He was a member of the NSDAP . In 1935 he organized the first international Old Testament congress in Germany in Göttingen. In the same year he became a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . He became the editor of the journal for Old Testament science . In 1937 he was called to Berlin and headed the Institutum Judaicum for the study of Judaism “from the bottom of the National Socialist worldview”. In 1939 Hempel declared his collaboration with the Institute for Research and Elimination of the Jewish Influence on German Church Life as head of the Old Testament working group . At the workshop in March 1941 he gave a lecture on the task of theology and the church seen from the front .

During the Second World War he served as a military pastor . He experienced the end of the war in 1945 in a hospital on the North Sea.

In 1947 Hempel became parish administrator in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt , a place in the area of ​​the Braunschweigische Landeskirche . In 1955 he became an honorary professor in Göttingen and from 1958 continued his scientific work as emeritus , especially for the journal he was in charge of.

Fonts

  • The Old Testament God. His judgment and his salvation ; Berlin: Furche, 1926
  • God and man in the Old Testament. Study on the History of Piety ; Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1926
  • Old Testament and History ; Gütersloh 1930
  • Journal of Old Testament Science and Post-Biblical Judaism ; Giessen: Alfred Töpelmann, 1930ff.
  • Old Testament and the Volkish Question ; Goettingen 1931
  • Old Hebrew literature and its Hellenistic-Jewish afterlife ; Wildpark-Potsdam: Academic Publishing Company Athenaion 1930
  • Luther and the Old Testament ; Bremen 1935
  • The Ethos of the Old Testament (Supplements to the Journal for Old Testament Science, 67); Berlin: Töpelmann, 1938
  • The task of theology and the church seen from the front ; Weimar: The new cathedral. Publishing house for German-Christian literature n.d. [1942] [= separate reprint from: Germanentum, Christianentum und Judentum. Session report on the Eisenach workshop of the "Institute for Research into the Jewish Influence on German Church Life" from March 3rd to 5th, 1941, Leipzig 1942]
  • Words of the prophets in new translation and with explanations ; Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann, 1949
  • Faith, Myth and History in the Old Testament , in: Journal for Old Testament Science 65 (1954) (Berlin: Alfred Töpelmann)
  • The texts of Qumran in contemporary research. Further communications on the text and interpretation of the Hebrew manuscripts found at the northwest end of the Dead Sea ; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962
As a co-author and editor
  • Johannes Hempel, Leonhard Rost (ed.): From Ugarit to Qumran. Contributions to Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern research. Otto Eißfeldt on September 1, 1957 offered by friends and students ; Berlin: Töpelmann, 1958
  • Johannes Hempel, Franz Seilnacht: We experience history ; Munich: Bayerischer Schulbuchverlag, 1968

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hempel, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 711-712.
  • Angelika Königseder: Walter de Gruyter - A science publisher under National Socialism. Tübingen 2016. pp. 248–252.
  • Wolfgang Schenk : The Jena Jesus. On the work of the national theologian Walter Grundmann and his colleagues . In: Peter von der Osten-Sacken (ed.): The misused gospel. Studies on theology and practice of the Thuringian German Christians. Berlin 2002
  • Cornelia Weber: Old Testament and the Volkish Question. The biblical popular term in Old Testament science of the National Socialist era, illustrated using the example of Johannes Hempel (Research on the Old Testament. Volume 28), Tübingen 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt / Main 2003, p. 244.
  2. ↑ 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. 109.
  3. ^ Klee, p. 244.
  4. ↑ Hans Prolingheuer : We went astray . Cologne 1987, p. 151.
personal data
SURNAME Hempel, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Bear stone
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1964
Place of death Goettingen