Martin Tamcke

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Martin Tamcke (born June 22, 1955 ) is a German theologian, orientalist and university professor. He is Professor of Ecumenical Theology and Oriental Church and Mission History at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . At the same time, he is co-founder and director of the international Erasmus Mundus course Euroculture and the international master's course Intercultural Theology. He is considered the most outstanding representative of the intercultural church history and the languages ​​and cultures of the Christian peoples of the Middle East. As president, he is also in charge of the advisory board of SIMO (Studies in the Middle East), through which students go to the Near East School of Theology in Beirut for a year-long course .

Tamcke studied Protestant theology , philosophy and oriental studies in Göttingen from 1975 to 1981 . From 1981 to 1984 he was a repeat lecturer in Eastern Church history at the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen and from 1983 to 1984 vicar in Göttingen . From 1984 to 1999 he was pastor of the ev.-luth. Regional Church of Hanover in Uelzen . In 1985 Tamcke received his doctorate. theol. at the Philipps University of Marburg , in 1993 the habilitation took place at the same university. From 1984 to 1989 he was a lecturer in Eastern Church history at the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen. From 1993 to 1999 he was a private lecturer in church history at the Hermannsburg Missionary Seminar .

Since 1999 he has been Professor of Ecumenical Theology at the Theological Faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Theological Faculty of Joensuu University , in 2014 an honorary doctorate from the University of Åbo Akademi in Turku (Finland), and in 2016 an honorary doctorate from Craiova University in Romania. Guest professorships have taken him all over the world (including Japan, China, India, Turkey, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, France, Ethiopia, Spain, Poland, Greece, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Hong Kong, Egypt, Indonesia, Great Britain, Denmark, Ireland, Canada, USA, Lithuania, Latvia, Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Malta, Hungary, Belarus, Austria, Switzerland, Italy).

Tamcke gave important impulses for the networking of specialists in Germany, was for many years the founding president of the Society for the Study of the Christian East (GSCO, re-elected several times), is the founder of the German Syrologentag (German Syrology Symposium), is president of the German-Finnish Makarios Symposium , sits on the board of the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), as well as numerous other scientific organizations. He is the editor of important academic series (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Syriaca series; Studies on Oriental Church History; Orthodoxy, Orient and Europe; Ex Oriente Lux; Co-Editor: Studies in the Reception History of the Bible, The Harp, Studies in Euroculture). Tamcke is one of the co-founders of the Center for Modern Indian Studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Center for the Cultures of Europe and the Mediterranean Area in Antiquity (long-time deputy director) and is a member of the Göttingen International Health Network (GIHN).

The Syrian and Armenian cultural areas are in the focus of Tamcke's scientific work in a special way. In addition, he works intensively with Russian partner universities and on Russian topics. He repeatedly used the biographical form to break new scientific ground (he wrote the first work on a pre-Islamic Catholicos patriarch, wrote a description of Henry von Heiseler (1875-1925) and the first scientific study on an eyewitness to the genocide of the Armenians , wrote a work on Tolstoy's religious views and published a book on a Syro-Iranian student at German universities in the 19th century, a first comprehensive biography of the first generation of Iranian students in Germany). Standard works on Orthodox Christianity and Orthodox spirituality show him as a competent specialist outside of the Orient. Numerous editions (e.g. on Filaret of Moscow's catechism or on the diaries of the Moravians in Egypt), important works on the missionary history of the Orient and on interreligious coexistence round off his work and show him as probably the most fruitful German scientist in the field of the Christian Orient. In view of the wars and political tensions in the Middle East, he launched numerous initiatives that also practically had relief measures or initiated discussions between the ethnic groups concerned. Translations of Tamcke's work are available in numerous languages ​​(Russian, Romanian, Arabic, Estonian, Hungarian, Slovak, English, French, Syriac, Turkish).

Publications (selection)

  • "I'm half a Russian". Henry von Heiseler (1875‒1925) and his partial Russian identity , ISBN 978-3-8469-0277-6 , Göttingen 2020
  • India Studies at the Theological Faculty in Göttingen: The missiologist Paul Gäbler (1901–1972). In: Inge Mager (Hrsg.): Handing down - exploring - passing on. Festschrift for Hans Otte on his 65th birthday. Yearbook of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony, Volume 113, Hannover 2015, pp. 329–341.
  • Tolstoy's religion. A spiritual biography , ISBN 978-3-458-17483-7 , Berlin 2010.
  • The Christians from Tur Abdin. Introduction to the Syrian Orthodox Church , ISBN 978-3-87476-580-0 , Frankfurt 2009.
  • Prayer from the heart and spiritual accompaniment. Impulses from the desert , Wennigsen 2008.
  • Christian doctrine of God in the Orient from the rise of Islam to the present , Beirut 2008.
  • Live in the spirit of the east. Orthodox Spirituality and Its Acceptance in the West. Frankfurt and Leipzig 2008.
  • Christians in the Islamic world. From Mohammed to the present , Munich 2008.
  • Christians and Muslims in Dialogue in the Islamic Orient of the Middle Ages , Beirut 2007.
  • Orthodox Christianity , Munich 2004, 2nd edition 2007.
  • Mindfulness in Every Breath: Introduction to Eastern Church Spirituality , Kevelaer 2007.
  • “You, Ararat, I will never forget!” New articles on the fate of Armenia and the Armenians , Berlin 2006.
  • Coexistence and confrontation. Contributions to the recent history and present situation of oriental Christians , Hamburg 2003.
  • Orient am Scheideweg , Hamburg 2003.
  • At home and abroad. Contributions to the recent history and present situation of the oriental Christians , Hamburg 2002.
  • Poverty as an ideal. Historical Uelzen Association , Uelzen 2001.
  • Oriental Christians between repression and migration, contributions to recent history and the present situation , Hamburg 2001.
  • Ephraem the Syrian, Introduction to Life and Work , Göttingen 2000, 2nd edition 2001.
  • Armin T. Wegner and the Armenians: Claims and Reality of an Eyewitness , Göttingen 1993, 2nd edition Hamburg 1996.
  • The reformatory impulses for education and faith with Duke Ernst and in the Uelzen of his time Verein Historisches Uelzen , Uelzen 1977.

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SURNAME Tamcke, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1955