Konrad Onasch

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Konrad Onasch (born August 4, 1916 in Danzig ; † October 3, 2007 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German church historian who worked primarily at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Onasch became known, among other things, for his studies of icons, of the denominations of the Orthodox churches and his interpretations of Dostoevsky. In a review, Christoph Schmidt called Onasch the "undoubtedly most productive Eastern Church historian of his generation".

Life

In 1952 Konrad Onasch founded the "Institute for Denominational Studies of the Orthodox Churches" at the Halle Theological Faculty together with the church historian Kurt Aland . 1954 traveled Onasch as part of a well-known Delegation (u. A. With Gustav Heinemann , Kurt Aland and Herbert Mochalski ) at the invitation of Russian Patriarch Alexy I. to Moscow. Onasch headed the Eastern Church Institute of the Theological Faculty in Halle until his retirement in 1981.

Hermann Goltz was a student of Onasch .

Publications (selection)

  • Ikonen , Berlin: VOB Union Verlag 1961 (edition for the GDR), series Altrussische Kunstdenkmäler (numerous other editions also in a new version, additional co-authors)
  • Dostoevsky as a seducer: Christianity and art in Dostoevsky's poetry. An attempt , Zurich: EVZ-Verlag 1961
  • "The discreet Christ - attempt on the poetization of Christianity in the poetry of FM Dostojewski", Berlin: VOB Union Verlag 1976
  • Introduction to denominational studies of the Orthodox Churches , Berlin: de Gruyter 1962 ( Göschen Collection  ; Vol. 1197 / 1197a)
  • Alternative Orthodoxy: Utopia and Reality in Russian Lay Christianity in the 19th and 20th Centuries; 14 essays , Paderborn: Schöningh 1993, ISBN 3-506-76179-X
  • Liturgy and art of the Eastern Church in brief: taking into account the old church. Vienna, Cologne, Graz: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., 1981, ISBN 3-205-00536-8 .
  • Lexicon liturgy and art of the Eastern Church: taking into account the old church , Berlin: Buchverlag Union 1993, ISBN 3-372-00097-8 .

literature

  • Hermann Goltz : Konrad Onasch, the researcher of the Slavic Orthodox culture, on his 75th birthday, or: From the difficulties of building bridges , in: Zeitschrift für Slawistik 1991, pp. 632–633.

Festschriften

  • Hermann Goltz, Vladimir Ivanov (ed.): Festschrift Konrad Onasch. Contributions to the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Konrad Onasch, founder of the Institute for Denominational Studies of the Orthodox Churches at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Berlin 1996.
  • Eikon and Logos: Contributions to the study of Byzantine cultural traditions; Konrad Onasch to the completion of the d. 65 years of age , published by the science journalism department of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, GDR. Edited by Hermann Goltz, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Science Journalism, 2 volumes, 1981.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Schmidt on Konrad Onasch: Kirche, Ikone, Gesellschaft , Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 1996, in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 47 (1999), page 471, Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden (volume is not in the DNB)
  2. ↑ German theologians visited the Soviet Union , published by the party leadership of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, 1955
personal data
SURNAME Onasch, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 2007
Place of death Halle (Saale)