Johannes Pinckert

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Johannes Pinckert (born December 21, 1879 in Leipzig , † 1956 ) was a German Old Testament scholar , Semitist and high school teacher.

Life

Pinckert was born in Leipzig in 1879 as the son of the businessman Gustav Pinckert. He attended the community school until 1890 and then the Nikolaigymnasium until 1899 , which was headed by Otto Kaemmel . He then studied Protestant theology and Semitic languages with Hermann Guthe , Heinrich Zimmer and August Fischer at the University of Leipzig . In 1904 he passed his first theological exam pro candidatura et licentia concionandi . From 1905 to 1907 he was a member of the Preachers College at St. Pauli in Leipzig. The second theological exam followed in 1907. At the same time, he was the Orientalists rooms with the dissertation hymns and prayers to Nebo for Dr. phil. PhD. The Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology later received its nabus interpretations "without the ditch and canal remaining closed" and "commanders". The orientalist Jürgen Tubach underlined the translation “messenger of truth”. After his studies, Pinckert went to Gablonz in Austria for a few months and was trained as a Protestant vicar .

In 1909 he became a teacher (later senior teacher ) at the Thomas School in Leipzig under Emil Jungmann . Pinckert served in World War I and was seriously wounded. He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class, the Landwehr Service Award 2nd Class, the Silver Medal for Rescue from Danger (Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz) and the Knight's Cross 2nd Class of the Saxon Albrecht Order . Most recently he was first lieutenant in the Landwehr .

Pinckert was a member of the German Oriental Society in Leipzig. From 1922 he worked as the head librarian of the German Association for the Study of Palestine , which united German-speaking Palestine research for the first time. Even before the war, he was working on the extensive ethnological and archaeological collections of the association (since 1918 housed in the Indo-European Institute of the Paulinum ), which he managed as the successor to Richard Hartmann . In 1929 he handed over the position of director to Martin Noth . The collection was destroyed in 1943.

In 1928 he gave the speech at the constitutional ceremony at the Thomas School. In this he dealt critically with the Weimar Republic : “Like all officials, I later took the oath on the constitution and will keep it. Respect for her must be preserved under such circumstances. But I don't let myself be forced to love. There is no reason for joy or enthusiasm. ”For this he was violently attacked by the Leipzig city council. The then rector Karl Tittel noted that Pinckert, "one of the most important personalities of the Thomas School and his attitude is representative of the entire teaching staff." He became vice-principal of the high school and represented formally in 1939 as the senior teacher the drawn into the Wehrmacht Rector Alfred Jentzsch . The German national teacher was already a member of the SA in 1932 and joined the NSDAP in 1936 . In 1943 he dismissed his “ half-Jewish ” colleague Ernst Theodor Eichelbaum , who had previously been covered by the teaching staff, with: “You will never come in here again! They are intolerable for school. ”Since May 29, 1945 Pinckert did not exercise his office due to illness and was dismissed on July 31, 1945 by a decision of the Control Council .

Works

  • Hymns and prayers to Nebo (= Leipzig Semitic Studies. Volume 3, Issue 4). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1920 (also dissertation, University of Leipzig 1907); Unchanged reprint Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1968.

literature

  • Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch : The Thomasschule in Leipzig between the Weimar Republic and National Socialism (= brochures of the Thomanerbund eV, volume 2). Published by the Thomanerbund eV, Leipzig 2000.
  • Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt of a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 (= brochures of the Thomanerbund eV, volume 3). Published by the Thomanerbund eV, Leipzig 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Johannes Pinckert: Hymns and prayers to Nebo , p. 33.
  2. ↑ a b Johannes Pinckert: Hymns and prayers to Nebo , p. 33.
  3. ^ Journal of the German Oriental Society 62 (1968), p. XXXVI.
  4. ^ Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology 21 (1908), p. 274.
  5. ↑ Journal for Old Testament Science 46 (1928), p. 238.
  6. ^ The big Brockhaus , Volume 8, Wiesbaden 1955, p. 308.
  7. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica . A New Survey of Universal Knowledge , Volume 16, London 1956, p. 180.
  8. ↑ Johannes Pinckert: Hymns and prayers to Nebo , p. 25.
  9. ↑ Michael P. Streck, Bruno Meissner (Ed.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, Volume 1, ISBN 3-11-004451-X , p. 419.
  10. ↑ Johannes Pinckert: Hymns and prayers to Nebo , p. 2.
  11. ↑ Michael P. Streck, Bruno Meissner (Ed.): Reallexikon der Assyriologie and Near Eastern Archeology. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, Volume 1, ISBN 3-11-004451-X , p. 419.
  12. ↑ Johannes Pinckert: Hymns and prayers to Nebo , pp. 24-25.
  13. ↑ Jürgen Tubach: In the shadow of the sun god. The sun cult in Edessa, Harran and Hatra on the eve of the Christian mission. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-447-02435-6 , p. 381.
  14. ↑ Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages , p. 15.
  15. ↑ Richard Sachse , Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912. BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 11.
  16. ↑ a b Journal of the German Palestine Association 38 (1972), p. 165.
  17. ↑ a b Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932. Commissioned by the Thomanerbund, self-published, Leipzig 1934, p. 18.
  18. ↑ Communications of the Vorderasiatischen Gesellschaft 17/18 (1912), p. 103.
  19. ^ Journal of the German Palestine Association 51-52 (1972), p. 305.
  20. ^ Journal of the German Palestine Association 56/57 (1972), p. 208.
  21. ^ Journal of the German Palestine Association 43–45 (1972), p. 235.
  22. ↑ a b c Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism , p. 38.
  23. ^ Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomas School in Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism, p. 88.
  24. ^ Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomas School in Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism , p. 43.
  25. ↑ Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages , p. 16.
  26. ↑ Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages , p. 40.
personal data
SURNAME Pinckert, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinkert, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German senior parliamentarian, Semitist and high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 1956