Joseph Henninger

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Joseph Henninger SVD (born May 12, 1906 in Wiesbaden ; † May 4, 1991 in Sankt Augustin ) was a Roman Catholic priest and ethnologist .

Life

After high school in 1926, he joined the Divine Word Missionaries in and studied philosophy in Saint until 1934 theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University ( Promotion for Doctor of Divinity. 1935), in Vienna anthropology, prehistory and anthropology u. a. with Wilhelm Koppers and two semesters in Assyriology in Rome . Since 1934 he was a member of the Anthropos Institute . In 1936 he became an editorial assistant for the magazine Anthropos , which he held until 1949. In 1944 he submitted his habilitation thesis ( The sacrifice among the Arabs. A study of the history of religion ). He began teaching at the University of Friborg and was appointed professor in 1954 . He also became an associate professor at the University of Bonn in 1964 . In 1974 he became a professor at the PTH Sankt Augustin.

His regional focus was on the Arab countries in North and East Africa, while his interest focused on Semitic cultures as well as sacrificial theories and the study of Islam.

Works (selection)

  • Sanctus Augustinus et doctrina de duplici iustitia. Inquisitio historico-critica in opinionem Hieronymi Seripandi (1493–1563) de justificatione ejusque habitudenem ad doctrinam S. Augustini (= Saint Gabriel studies . Volume 2). Mödling 1935, OCLC 782147104 (also dissertation, Gregoriana 1935).
  • The family with today's Bedouin Arabia and its peripheral areas. A contribution to the question of the original family form of the Semites (= International Archive for Ethnography . Volume 42). Brill, Leiden 1943, OCLC 5960113 (also dissertation, Vienna 1937).
  • The sacrifice in the ancient South Arabian civilizations . Paulusdruckerei, Freiburg im Üechtland 1945, OCLC 601793521 (also habilitation thesis, Freiburg im Üechtland 1944).
  • P. Wilhelm Schmidt SVD 1868-1954. A biographical sketch . Paulusdruckerei, Freiburg im Üechtland 1956, OCLC 600889080 .
  • About living space and ways of life of the early Semites (= Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 151) (= Meeting. Working Group for Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Natural, Engineering and Social Sciences . Volume 139). Westdeutscher Verlag, Cologne / Opladen 1968, OCLC 4112996 .
  • On the early Semitic nomadism (= Studia ethnographica . Volume 3). Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1969, OCLC 1014945553 .
  • Les fêtes de printemps chez les sémites et la pâque israélite (= Études bibliques ). Gabalda, Paris 1975, OCLC 1070953676 .
  • Arabica sacra. Essays on the religious history of Arabia and its peripheral areas. Contributions à l'histoire religieuse de l'Arabie et de ses régions limitrophes (= Orbis biblicus et orientalis . Volume 40). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981, ISBN 3-525-53348-9 .
  • Arabica varia. Essays on the cultural history of Arabia and its peripheral areas (= Orbis biblicus et orientalis . Volume 90). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1989, ISBN 3-7278-0638-9 .

literature

  • Al-Bāḥiṯ. Festschrift for Joseph Henninger's 70th birthday on May 12, 1976 (= Studia Instituti Anthropos . Volume 28). Publisher of the Anthropos Institute, Sankt Augustin 1976, ISBN 3-921389-40-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Henninger, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman (Roman Catholic), Steyler missionary and ethnologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1991
Place of death Saint Augustine