Kurt Goldammer

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Kurt Goldammer (born January 20, 1916 in Berlin , † February 7, 1997 in Amöneburg ) was a German religious scholar and Paracelsus researcher.

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Kurt Goldammer studied Protestant theology, art history and archeology , general religious history and philosophy in Leipzig, Marburg, Tübingen and Zurich from 1935 to 1939 . He received his doctorate in 1939 under Friedrich Heiler and completed his habilitation in 1946.

Religious studies

After years of service in the church, he advanced to Heiler's return to theology to his indirect successor as a religious scholar at the Philipps University of Marburg . Through changes in university politics, he continued Heiler's religious studies work and established the subject when he was appointed professor during the university reform of the 1970s. Goldammer pursued religious studies much more clearly than healers than theology-independent cultural studies.

Along with Rudolf Otto , Friedrich Heiler and Gustav Mensching, Goldammer is one of the most important German religious phenomenologists of the 20th century. In addition to important works on symbolism and art, as well as on ancient religiosity, his religious studies interest focused primarily on systematic, phenomenological and methodological questions.

Paracelsus research

Goldammer published many articles on Paracelsus in a wide variety of publications. As early as 1941 he became assistant in the edition of Paracelsus' Theological Writings of the editor Heinrich Bornkamm and in 1953 took over as the main editor, supported by the German scholar Karl-Heinz Weimann (1922-2006). Since 1953 Goldammer was the editor and chairman of the Paracelsus Commission and responsible for the complete edition of the theological and religious-philosophical works. Of the planned 14 volumes, only 6, a supplement and a register volume (1995) were published by Steiner Verlag.

Awards

In 1987 he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon.

literature

  • Art. Kurt Goldammer . In: Udo Tworuschka: Religious Studies. Trailblazer and classic, UTB 3492, Köln-Weimar-Wien 2011, pp. 303–317 (lit!)
  • Rosemarie Dilg-Frank (Ed.): Creature and Cosmos: international contributions to Paracelsus research; Kurt Goldammer on his 65th birthday, Fischer 1981

Fonts

  • Paracelsus Studies, Klagenfurt 1954
  • The world of forms of the religious, Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1960
  • Paracelsus in new horizons. Collected essays, Vienna 1986
  • Editor: Paracelsus, On the Light and Nature of Mind. A selection, Reclam 1984
  • The divine magician and the magician nature: religion, natural magic and the beginnings of natural science from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance; with contributions to the understanding of magic in Paracelsus, Stuttgart: Steiner 1991
  • Editor of Friedrich Heiler: Religions of Mankind, Reclam, 6th edition 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Pye: Friedrich Heiler (1892 - 1967) , in: Axel Michaels (ed.): Klassiker der Religionswissenschaft , Munich 1997, 3rd edition 2010, Verlag CH Beck, p. 288
personal data
SURNAME Goldammer, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar and Paracelsus researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1997
Place of death Amöneburg