Karl Erich Grözinger

Karl Erich Grözinger (born February 4, 1942 in Stuttgart ) is a German Judaist and religious scholar .

Life

After studying Protestant theology at the Universities of Tübingen , Berlin and Heidelberg - during which he completed a one-year course in Biblical Studies , Biblical Archeology and Judaic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - he was a research assistant at the Heidelberg Qumran Research Center with Karl Georg Kuhn . He continued the second degree in Semitic and Jewish Studies, which he began in Heidelberg, in Frankfurt am Main . Here he worked as an assistant at Arnold Maria Goldberg's seminar for Jewish studies. There he received his doctorate in 1975 in Jewish studies, Semitistik- Aramaistik and Old Testament of Dr. phil with the work on rabbinical literature "Midrash Pesikta Rabbati" (with summa cum laude). In 1980 he received his habilitation there in the subject of Judaic Studies with the work "Music and Song in the Theology of Early Jewish Literature, Talmud , Midrash , Mysticism" , which had become a standard work , and was appointed as a private lecturer. He was a founding member of the Union of Judaists. In 1996 he founded the Association for Jewish Studies at the University of Potsdam . V. , of which he was 1st chairman until 2001. At the University of Frankfurt am Main. , where he worked until 1994, he was appointed honorary professor for Jewish studies in 1985, followed by research stays in Israel . In 1989 he was appointed full professor at the newly established first chair for Jewish studies at Lund University , Sweden , where he taught until 1991. In addition to being offered a professorship at the University of Potsdam, in the same year he was offered a professorship for Jewish Studies at the University of Halle . In addition to several guest professorships, which he a. a. led to the USA and Poland , he is particularly connected to Israel in terms of research, as a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem and Affiliated Professor of the University of Haifa . He is also an international expert.

Since 1994 Grözinger has held a chair at the Institute for Religious Studies with a focus on Jewish religious history at the University of Potsdam. There he was a co-founder of the Jewish Studies course , director of the resulting College and Institute for Jewish Studies / School of Jewish Studies, and founder of the LER course, which is binding for Brandenburg (Life Design , Ethics, Religious Studies) . In 2007 he retired. Since 2007 he has been chairman of the Ephraim Veitel Foundation . From 2012 to 2013 he was senior professor at the Center for Jewish Studies in Berlin-Brandenburg .

Grözinger is the author of numerous books and articles. He has been married to Elvira Grözinger since 1968 and has a daughter, the dermatologist Yael Adler .

Grözinger has published on all important stages of development in Jewish religious history and in 2019 will publish the fifth and last volume of his intellectual history of Judaism: Jüdisches Denken. Theology, philosophy, mysticism.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

• I am the Lord your God. A rabbinical homily on the First Commandment (PesR 2O), Lang. Frankfurt am Main / Bern 1976; ISBN 3-261-01717-1
• Music and song in the theology of early Jewish literature , Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1982; ISBN 3-161-4452-1-X
• Kafka and the Kabbalah . The Jewish in Work and Thought by Franz Kafka , Campus. Frankfurt am Main 1992, extended edition Berlin 2002.
• The stories from Ba'al Schem Tov , Schivche Ha-Bescht , Hebrew and Yiddish text, edited, translated (both versions) and commented, including a detailed introduction, 2 volumes, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997.
• Lifestyle - Ethics - Religious Studies. On the foundation of a new school subject, analyzes and recommendations by Wolfgang Edelstein , Karl E. Grözinger, Sabine Gruehn, Imma Hillerich , Bärbel Kirsch , Achim Leschinsky , Jürgen Lott , Fritz Oser , Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 2001.
• Kafka and the Kabbalah. The Jewish in Work and Thinking by Franz Kafka, considerably expanded new edition, Berlin / Vienna 2003, 5th expanded and revised edition, Frankfurt am Main 2014
• Jewish thinking. Theology, philosophy, mysticism. Volume I: From the God of Abraham to the God of Aristotle. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37512-5 .
• Jewish thinking. Theology, philosophy, mysticism. Volume II, From Medieval Kabbalah to Hasidism . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-593-37513-3 .
• Jewish thinking. Theology, philosophy, mysticism. Volume III, From the Religious Criticism of the Renaissance to Orthodoxy and Reform in the 19th Century. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-37514-4 .
• The foundations of the Prussian-Jewish court jeweler family Ephraim and their traces in the present . With contributions by Harry van der Linden. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05755-4 (= Jewish culture. Volume 19).
• The Ba'al Schem of Michelstadt . A German-Jewish holy life between legend and reality , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39282-0 .
• Jewish thinking. Theology, philosophy, mysticism. Volume IV, Zionism and Shoah , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-39141-0 .
• Jewish thinking. Theology, philosophy, mysticism. Volume V, Opinions and Directions in the 20th and 21st Centuries , Campus, Oct. 9, 2019, ISBN 978-3-593-51107-8
• A thousand years of the Ba'ale Schem. Jewish healers, helpers, magicians. A mirror of European intellectual history . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-447-10827-0 .
• Jerusalem on the Rhine. Jewish stories from Speyer, Worms and Mainz , Worms Verlag, Worms 2018, ISBN 3-944-38083-5
• The Holy Jew of Bingen - Rabbi Adam Baʽal Schem . Working group Jüdisches Bingen Volume 9, Verlag Matthias Ess, Bingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-945-67640-0

editor

• Elie Kedourie (Ed.): The Jewish World, Revelation, Prophecy and History. German adaptation by KE Grözinger. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1980.
• Karl Erich Grözinger, Norbert Ilg, Hermann Lichtenberger , Gerhard-Wilhelm Nebe, Hartmut Pabst (eds.): Qumran, ways of research. Volume CDX, Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1981.
• Karl Erich Grözinger, Stéphane Mosès and Hans Dieter Zimmermann (eds.): Franz Kafka and Judaism. Athenaeum - Jüdischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1987.
• Karl E. Grözinger (Ed.): Judaism in the German-speaking area. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991.
• The economic and cultural relations between the Jewish communities in Poland and Germany from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Harrassowitz Verlag , Wiesbaden 1992, ISBN 3-447-03300-2 .
• Karl E. Grözinger, Joseph Dan (eds.): Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism, International Symposium held in Frankfurt am Main 1991. Walter de Gruyter Berlin / New York 1995.
• Karl E. Grözinger (Ed.): Jewish culture in Frankfurt am Main from the beginnings to the present. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1997.
• Karl E. Grözinger (Ed.): Language and Identity in Judaism. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1998.
• with Hartmut Zinser , Burkhard Gladigow (ed.): Religion in school education and upbringing . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag Spitz, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8305-0038-6 .
• Karl E. Grözinger, Jörg Rüpke (Hrsg.): Literature as religious action? Volume 2, Religion · Culture · Society, Berlin 1999.
• Karlfried founder , Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink and Friedrich Niewöhner with the participation of Karl E. Grözinger (ed.): Gershom Scholem, diaries with essays and drafts up to 1923. 2nd half volume: 1917–1923. Jewish publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
• Karl E. Grözinger (ed.): Religions and world views. Values, norms, questions in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism / Buddhism, esotericism and atheism. 6 volumes. Berlin 2009.
• The foundations of the Prussian-Jewish court jeweler family Ephraim and their traces in the present. (= Jewish culture. Volume 19). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009.
• The Ephraim Veitel Foundation. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009
• Jewish culture in the ShUM cities. Literature, music, theater. Wiesbaden 2014.

Editor of Series

• Jewish culture, studies of religion, intellectual history and culture. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
• Jewish music. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.
• Religion · Culture · Society. Berlin publishing house, Berlin.

literature

• Nathanael Riemer (Ed.): Jewish Lifeworlds and Jewish Thought. Festschrift presented to Karl E. Grözinger on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06634-1 (with curriculum vitae).
• Manfred Voigts: On the retirement of Prof. Dr. Karl E. Grozinger. In: PaRDeS. Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies V. issue 13, 2007, p. 8 f. (online) .

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Erich Grözinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Grözinger on the publication server of the University of Potsdam
• Profile of Grözinger at the Institute for Religious Studies at the University of Potsdam

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://ephraim-veitel-stiftung.de/ Homepage of the Ephraim Veitel Foundation