John Hennig

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John Hennig (before 1939 Paul Gottfried Johannes Hennig ; born March 3, 1911 in Leipzig ; † December 11, 1986 in Basel ) was an Irish - German literary and religious scholar .

Life

Hennig was born as the son of the senior teacher Max Hennig. He and his brother Karl Hennig attended the St. Thomas School in Leipzig . He then studied theology , philosophy , history and modern languages at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and Universität Leipzig . His teachers included Ernst Robert Curtius , Erich Rothacker , Theodor Frings and Eduard Spranger .

He received his PhD in 1933 at Joachim Wach and Theodor Litt for Dr. phil. concept of life and life category with work . Studies on the history and theory of conceptual formation in the history of ideas . He married a daughter of the Jewish entrepreneur Felix Meyer. In 1936 he wrote an article about Karl Jaspers ' work Reason and Existence for the magazine for theology and church . Later he belonged to his circle of friends. In the same year Hennig converted to Catholicism.

In 1939 he went into exile in Ireland. Hennig taught at Belvedere College and University College Dublin . He published in Catholic journals. In 1945 he got an Irish passport. In 1948 he was accepted into the Royal Irish Academy . In 1956 he moved to Switzerland. In 1967 he became an extraordinary member of the Abbot Herwegen Institute for Liturgical and Monastic Research of the Maria Laach Monastery . In 1970 the University of Basel awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 1971 he became a Swiss citizen.

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