Josef Funkenstein

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Josef Funkenstein (born March 25, 1909 in Buczacz, Austria-Hungary (now Buschatsch , Ukraine ); died in the 20th century) was a German historian.

Life

Josef Funkenstein came from Galicia in Austria-Hungary. Little is known about his life data. Robert Jütte interviewed him on July 17, 1989 in Freiburg im Breisgau for his dissertation on emigrated Jewish scientists. When his son Amos Funkenstein died in Berkeley in 1995 at the age of 58 , he was not mentioned in the obituaries.

Funkenstein grew up in Vienna and Dortmund . He studied history in Frankfurt am Main and Breslau and completed a rabbi training at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau in 1934 . After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in Germany in 1933, he was no longer able to defend the dissertation he had written with Richard Koebner at the University of Breslau , but went to Switzerland and received his doctorate in Basel in 1934 .

Funkenstein emigrated to Palestine and found a job in public administration. In 1937 his son Amos Funkenstein , who became a historian in the USA, was born in Tel Aviv . After the establishment of the State of Israel, Funkenstein became deputy director of the Institute of Public Administration in Jerusalem and worked there until 1958.

At the end of the 1950s he returned to Germany and taught at the Freiburg University of Education . He has repeatedly received teaching assignments for Jewish history at the Department of History at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . He was a visiting professor at the University of Bonn in 1961/62 , was a senior lecturer at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa from 1964 to 1966 and at the University of Sydney in Australia in 1968/69 and was a visiting professor at the University of Maryland in 1973/74 , UNITED STATES.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Old Testament in the battle between regnum and sacerdotium at the time of the investiture controversy . Dortmund: M. Horn, 1938. Basel, Phil.-hist. Diss.
  • Unction of the ruler in: Josef Fleckenstein , Karl Schmid (Hrsg.): Nobility and Church: Gerd Tellenbach for his 65th birthday presented by friends and students . Freiburg: Herder, 1968, pp. 6-14

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-language "Science of Judaism": The emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933–1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner 1991, p. 202f., P. 205, p. 215
  2. ↑ Eckhard Wirbelauer (Ed.): The Freiburg Philosophical Faculty 1920–1960. Members - structures - networks. Appendix 2. The scientific staff of the Freiburg Faculty of Philosophy (1910–1970) . Freiburg, 2006 p. 922
personal data
SURNAME Funkenstein, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Buczacz
DATE OF DEATH 20th century