Matthias Augustin (theologian)

Matthias Siegfried Augustin (born May 29, 1950 in Meißen ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Matthias Augustin was born as the son of the Judiciary Councilor Siegfried Augustin and his wife Edith, b. Naumann, born. He graduated from high school in Koblenz in 1969 and then studied Protestant theology and philosophy in Wuppertal and at Heidelberg University . In 1975 he passed the faculty examination and was a teacher for the following two years. As a research assistant for the Old Testament , he was at the 1979 University of Osnabrück started and in the following year by the University of Heidelberg for Doctor Protestant theology doctorate . In 1982 he finally went to the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg as an academic advisor for the Old Testament . In Osnabrück 1985 to the doctorate phil. he did his doctorate and habilitated in 1989 at the University of Rostock and then taught there. In that year he also founded the Dr. Augustin Studienreisen GmbH , of which he is the managing director. Since 1993 he has lectured on the Old Testament as a private lecturer . He was appointed adjunct professor in 1998. In 1999 he was ordained , since he has been a pastor in the service of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . Augustin founded the scientific monograph series Contributions to the Study of the Old Testament and Ancient Judaism , of which he is the editor , with Hermann Michael Niemann .

Works

• Marxist philosopher and humanist. Milan Machovec and the importance of Old Testament traditions in his philosophical thinking (with an essay by Milan Machovec) (Essen 1985)
• Old Testament biblical studies. A workbook (together with Jürgen Kegler) (Gütersloh 1987, 2nd edition 2000)
• The Simeonites. Investigations into the origin and history of an Israelite tribe (habilitation thesis, 1988)

Web links

• Entry on Matthias Augustin in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
• Dr. Augustin study trips