Klaus-Dietrich Schunck

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Klaus-Dietrich Adolf Hans Schunck (born June 18, 1927 in Breslau ) is a Protestant theologian and professor emeritus of the Old Testament at the University of Rostock .

Life

Klaus-Dietrich Schunck, the son of an insurance salesman, was born in Breslau in 1927 and spent his childhood and youth in Dessau . After serving in the Reich labor force , serving in the Wehrmacht and being an American prisoner of war , he obtained his Abitur in 1946 in Wuppertal ( Elberfeld district ) and studied Protestant theology and classical archeology from 1947, first in Halle and later in Greifswald .

Just one year after his final theological exam (1952) he was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD. In Greifswald he worked from 1953, first as a research assistant , then as a senior assistant and lecturer . In 1960 he took part in a study trip lasting several months through Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. After completing his habilitation in 1962, Schunck was initially a lecturer , then from 1965 professor with teaching assignment for the Old Testament in Greifswald and director of the Gustaf Dalman Institute there.

In 1967 he moved to Rostock as a professor , where he taught the Old Testament as a full professor from 1969 and from 1970 to 1976 also served as director of the then theology section . In 1991 he, who had been involved in the reconstitution of the Faculty of Theology as Vice Dean in the course of the peaceful revolution since the beginning of 1990, retired early in connection with the reorientation of university policy. From 1992 to 1994 he held a teaching position at the University of Hamburg .

Klaus-Dietrich Schunck is married to Ilse Schunck, b. Pieper, and has a daughter (born 1958).

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Since his doctoral thesis on the sources of the first and second Maccabees , the Maccabees as well as the history of Israel and biblical regional studies have been an important focus of his work. As part of the renowned BKAT commentary series , he published a commentary on the book Nehemia , which appeared in deliveries from 1988 to 2009.

Publications (selection)

  • The sources of the I. and II. Maccabees , Halle / Saale 1954 (dissertation).
  • Benjamin, Studies on the Origin and History of an Israelite Tribe , Berlin 1963 (habilitation thesis).
  • I. Book of Maccabees (Jewish writings from the Hellenistic-Roman period 1/4), Gütersloh 1980.
  • Old Testament and Holy Land. Collected studies on the Old Testament and biblical regional studies. Volume I: Frankfurt am Main 1989; Volume II: Frankfurt am Main 2002.
  • Nehemia ( Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament XXIII / 2), Neukirchen-Vluyn 2009.

For further publications see the list of publications in the Catalogus professorum Rostochiensum.

literature

  • Hermann Michael Niemann (editor): Reflecting on Israel, the Bible and theology. Festschrift for Klaus-Dietrich Schunck on his 65th birthday (contributions to the study of the Old Testament and ancient Judaism 37), Frankfurt am Main 1994.
  • Heinrich Holze (editor), The Rostock Theological Faculty under two dictatorships. History studies 1933–1989 , Münster 2004.

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Klaus-Dietrich Schunck: Tabular curriculum vitae. (PDF) Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  2. ^ List of publications by Klaus-Dietrich Schunck. In: Catalogus professorum Rostochiensum. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schunck, Klaus-Dietrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schunck, Klaus-Dietrich Adolf Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant Old Testament scholar
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw