Ladislaus Martin Pákozdy
Ladislaus Martin Pákozdy (* 1910 ; † 1993 ) was a Hungarian Protestant Reformed theologian and biblical scholar .
Life
Pákozdy came from a Protestant family. After attending elementary school and obtaining his university entrance qualification , he studied Reformed theology . After his ordination to the pastor he devoted himself to continue the theological and scientific work and became a doctor of theology doctorate . He received a teaching position for biblical studies at the University of Debrecen . He was particularly interested in the theology of the Old Testament and the history of Judaism , about which he has presented numerous publications. These had their starting point in Judaism and Christianity , especially on the territory of Hungary and Transylvania .
Pákozdy was one of the initiators of the foundation of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK). At the second pre-conference for the convening of an All-Christian Peace Assembly in 1959, he gave a lecture on the subject of “The Cold War as a Theological Problem”.
Even after leaving the university, Pákozdy worked until his death as an author in the Göttingen Sermon Meditations as well as with essays and articles in books and magazines. On the 70th birthday of Martin Niemöllers , he paid tribute to him as an example of “ that something other than wars and nationalism can come from the German people ”.
Honor
- On 11 May 1965, he was awarded the University of Vienna the honorary doctorate of theology.
Publications
- The Transylvanian Sabbathism . Its emergence and development from Unitarianism to Judaism and its downfall , Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne Kohlhammer 1973, ISBN 3-17-001314-9 / 3170013149
- Jews and Christians in Hungary after 1526 , in: in church and synagogue . Handbook on the history of Christians and Jews
- Evangelical Christianity in Hungary between East and West in the second half of the 17th century. Modern Old Testament science and Christian ethics , in: Tradition und Gegenwart, five guest lectures on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Berlin Theological Faculty, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1962
- Jews and Christians in Hungary after 1926 , in: Kirche und Synagoge, edited by KH Rengstorf and S. v. Kortzfleisch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elige vitam. Second session of the Christian Peace Conference, Prague 16-19 April 1959, Praha 1959, p. 54
- ↑ http://library.fes.de/gmh/main/pdf-files/gmh/1962/1962-05-b-313.pdf Annemarie Zimmermann in a review of "BIS AN DAS ENDE DER ERDE". Ecumenical contributions to the 70th birthday of D. Martin Niemöller, ed. by Hanfried Krüger, Chr. Kaiser Verlag, Munich 1962
- ↑ http://www.univie.ac.at/universitaet/forum-zeitgeschichte/gedenkkultur/ehrendoktorinnen/ Accessed March 9, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pákozdy, Ladislaus Martin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pákozdy, László Márton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian Reformed theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1910 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1993 |