Marie-Louise Henry

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Marie-Louise Henry (2005)

Marie-Louise Henry (born June 15, 1911 in Brussels , † June 29, 2006 in Hamburg ) was a Franco-German Protestant theologian.

Life

Marie-Louise was the first of two daughters of the French engineer Adolphe Henry and the German Marie Auguste Henry nee. Place (1882–1961). Due to the First World War, she moved to Linz in the Rhineland with her sister Marguerite Constance (* May 22, 1914) and her mother in 1914 . Her father served in the German army and died in the hospital in 1915.

Due to the better supply situation, she spent her school days in Wismar , where she was strongly influenced and promoted in theological questions. In the summer semester of 1932 she began studying theology at the University of Rostock , which she completed in 1936. From 1936 to 1941 a vicariate followed in Berlin-Spandau . Henry began further studies at Rostock University in the subjects of history, German and Italian in the first trimester of 1941, but finished it again in March 1942 due to work. During the Nazi era, shortly after it was founded, she became involved in the Confessing Church . Her apartment was destroyed by the bombing raids on Rostock in 1944/45, whereupon she moved to her sister in Polchow . After she had survived the turmoil of the Second World War, she received her doctorate on April 9, 1948 with the text Studies on the Kulturkampf of the German Evangelical Church with special consideration of the Mecklenburg conditions as a doctor of theology .

Henry family grave , Volksdorf forest cemetery

In 1952 she was the first woman to complete her habilitation at the theological faculty of the University of Rostock with a paper on the subject: Problems of interpretation of the Isaiah apocalypse Isa. 24–27 successfully. From the spring semester of 1953 to 1959 she was a full-time lecturer at the theological faculty of Rostock University under Gottfried Quell .

In 1959 she became the first woman in Germany to be professor of the Old Testament at the theological faculty of Leipzig University . In that function, she got involved in the prevention of the demolition of the Marienkirche in Wismar in 1960 , which resulted in a sterile correspondence with the authorities of the GDR. After the death of her mother, she and her sister left the GDR on November 21, 1961 and initially stayed with relatives in Ahrensburg (near Hamburg ). 1963 habilitation them again at the University of Hamburg and became 1973 full professor of Old Testament. During this time she established numerous connections with Jewish institutions. In 1976 she retired , but continued teaching in 1986 in the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Hamburg due to insufficient number of lecturers. After the political change in the GDR , she gave a haunting opening speech at the University of Rostock in 1992 .

Shortly after her 95th birthday, Marie-Louise Henry died in her apartment in Hamburg-Volksdorf , she was buried in the forest cemetery there in grid square Cg 23-24.

Act

Marie-Louise Henry distinguished herself through her fearless demeanor towards the authorities during her time in the GDR. From the student riots in 1968 to feminist theology , she dealt intensively with the issues that moved and move people.

Works (selection)

  • Studies on the Kulturkampf of the German Evangelical Church with special consideration of the Mecklenburg situation. Rostock 1948 (dissertation, University of Rostock, 1948).
  • The animal in the religious consciousness of the Old Testament man (= collection of generally understandable lectures and writings from the field of theology and religious history. Vol. 220/221). Mohr (Siebeck), Tübingen 1958.
  • Yahwist and priestly scriptures. Two testimonies of faith from the Old Testament (= work on theology. H. 3). Calwer Verlag, Stuttgart 1960.
  • Crisis of faith and the proving of faith in the poems of the Isaiah apocalypse. Attempt to interpret the literary composition of Isa. 24-27 from the context of their religious motifs (= contributions to the science of the Old and New Testament. Volume 5, Issue 6 = Issue 86). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [ua] 1967 (edited habilitation thesis, University of Rostock, 1952).
  • Prophet and Tradition. Attempt to pose a problem (= supplements to the journal for Old Testament science. H. 116). De Gruyter, Berlin 1969.
  • The Jewish brother and his Hebrew Bible. Inquiries to the Christian reader of the Old Testament. Catholic Academy Hamburg / Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1988, ISBN 3-7887-1283-X .
  • Those who sow with tears ... Old Testament questions and thoughts in the fifth decade after Auschwitz. Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1990, ISBN 3-7887-1355-0 .
  • Guard your thinking and your will. Old Testament studies with a contribution to feminist theology (= biblical-theological studies. Vol. 16). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1992, ISBN 3-7887-1379-8 .

literature

  • Hermann Michael Niemann , Karl-Reinhard Titzck: Documentation on the personal and scientific curriculum vitae of Professor Dr. Marie-Louise Henry (1911-2006). In: Kersten Krüger (Hrsg.): Women's studies in Rostock. Reports by and about female academics (= Rostock studies on university history. Vol. 9). University of Rostock, Rostock 2010, ISBN 978-3-86009-089-3 , pp. 68-83.
  • Hermann Michael Niemann , Meik Gerhards: Marie-Louise Henry (1911-2006). A contentious, sensitive and far-sighted theologian. In: Kersten Krüger (Hrsg.): Women's studies in Rostock. Reports by and about female academics. University of Rostock, Rostock 2010, pp. 84–93.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation of Marie-Louise Henry in 1932 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Matriculation of Marie-Louise Henry in 1941 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Rostock Studies on University History, Vol. 16, Women in Science, Rostock 2011, p. 200 (online edition)
personal data
SURNAME Henry, Marie-Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2006
Place of death Hamburg