Klaus Oppenheimer
Klaus Oppenheimer (full name Klaus Eduard Henry Oppenheimer , born December 21, 1905 in Berlin , † May 20, 1986 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Protestant theologian of German origin.
Life
Klaus Oppenheimer, the son of the ophthalmologist Eugen Oppenheimer and Elisabeth born. Märklin, studied philosophy, history and classical philology at the universities of Berlin , Freiburg and Kiel from 1922 . On May 31, 1933, he was one of the last students of Jewish origin in Berlin to be awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In his dissertation, which was supervised by Werner Jaeger and Ludwig Deubner , he compared the epitaphs (speeches of the fallen) in Thucydides and in Plato's Menexenos .
He had already turned to theology during his studies. He came to the Confessing Church through personal contact with Martin Niemöller and reading Karl Barth's magazine Theologische Leben heute . To avoid persecution by the National Socialists , Oppenheimer emigrated to the Netherlands in 1934 and studied Protestant theology at the University of Groningen . After graduating, he worked as an assistant preacher in Groningen in 1938 and in Nieuw-Dordrecht from 1939 . He was still a German citizen and refused military service during World War II . In 1945 he became a Dutch citizen .
In 1946 Oppenheimer went to Hallum as a pastor , in 1948 as a student pastor in the university town of Leiden, where he last worked as a university preacher from 1961 to 1971. During his service he was involved in peace work. After his retirement in 1971 he wrote theological and moral memoranda and reflections and published his collected memoirs, reviews and interviews.
Klaus Oppenheimer was married to Ilse Clara Dassel from 1926, and from 1964 was married to the embryologist Arentje Oppenheimer-Dekker (1926-2014) for the second time .
Fonts (selection)
- Two Attic epitaphs . Berlin 1933
- In de tijd der catastrofen. Mogeliijkheden en borders van verzet . The Hague 1980
- De Kerk bij de tijd, buiten de tijd, tegen de tijd . The Hague 1981
- Getuige van de tijd. Opposition, criticism, interviews, sprekken 1938 dead 1984 . The Hague 1984
- Het precious leven. Overpeinzingen, observaties, introspective . The Hague 1987
literature
- Arie van Haarlem: Oppenheimer, Klaus Eduard Henry . In: Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme , Part 6 (2006), pp. 213–215
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oppenheimer, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oppenheimer, Klaus Eduard Henry (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch Protestant theologian of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 1986 |
| Place of death | Suffer |