Max Haller (theologian)

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Max Haller (born March 6, 1879 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; † January 10, 1949 in Muri near Bern ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

family

Max Haller was the son of pastor Johann Gottlieb Haller (born August 31, 1847 in Biel ; † 1910) and his wife Elisabeth Mathilde Emilie (born December 20, 1852 in Huttwil ; † August 2, 1889 in Bern ), a daughter of the doctor Josef Lanz (1818–1908). His brother was the architect and director of the trade museum in Bern Hans Haller (born February 15, 1882 in Freiburg; † 1958).

He was married to Gertrud Elisabeth (* 1895 in Langnau im Emmental ), daughter of Samuel August Röthlisberger; they had three children together:

  • Esther Maria Anna Haller (* 1917 in Bern), married to Paul Kramer, pastor in Lauenen ;
  • Maria Magdalena Irene Haller (* 1919 in Bern; † 1946), married to Jakob Amstutz, pastor in Frauenkappelen ;
  • Hans Joachim Matthias Haller (* 1920 in Bern), pastor in Limpach , married to Marianne (* 1928 in Lenk ), daughter of Gottlieb Z'Bären.

Career

Max Haller enrolled at the University of Geneva and began studying theology, which he continued at the universities of Bern , Berlin , Tübingen and Paris .

1904 doctorate he attended the University of Bern for licentiate in theology.

From 1906 to 1925 he was pastor in Herzogenbuchsee and private lecturer at the University of Bern; from 1921 he was also an associate professor for the history of religion.

In 1925 he became a full professor for the Old Testament at the University of Bern; from 1933 to 1934 he was rector there. One of his students was Fritz Buri , who later became professor of theology and who described him as a lively Old Testament scholar.

From 1925 to 1948 he was President of the Examination Board of the Bernese Pastor Training and from 1935 until his death Vice-President of the Swiss Evangelical Church Federation .

Participation in the Bern process

On November 16, 1933, the main hearing of the Bern trial began , which was opened on the basis of a criminal complaint from the Swiss Association of Israelites (SIG) and the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Bern for violating the Bernese law on cinematography and measures against junk literature from 1916. The focus was on witness interviews and expert opinions on the current use of the anti-Semitic protocols of the Elders of Zion in Switzerland . This, the court ordered the collection of expert opinions on what the plaintiff Max Haller called as an expert. As a result, however, he resigned his office and justified this with the fact that as a Semitist and Hebraist he lacked the competence to make an expert judgment; he was followed by Arthur Baumgarten , professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Basel .

Acting as a representative of the school of religious history

Max Haller was an important Swiss representative of the second generation of the school of religious history , which was concerned with embedding the Bible in general religious history; The third generation quoted a lot from his book Religion, Law and Customs in the Genesis sagas . Hermann Gunkel referred to him as his student and Max Haller wrote the commentaries on "Judaism" for the Göttingen Bible for him .

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Religion, Law and Customs in the Genesis Sagas . Bern: G. Grunau printing works, 1905.
  • The outcome of prophecy . Tübingen: Mohr, 1912.
  • Judaism: Historiography, Prophecy and Legislation after Exile . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1914.
  • Max Haller; Hermann Gunkel; Hugo Gressmann : The writings of the Old Testament in selection . Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1920–1925.
  • Max Haller; Kurt Galling : The Five Megilloth . Tübingen: JCB Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1940.
  • Charles of Gruyeres ; Erwin Reinhard; Max Haller: The Bernese regional church in the light of the gospel . Bern: Come on Büchler, 1941.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Schulz, Andreas Urs Sommer: Fritz Buri: his way: Life - Thinking - Believing . Saint-Paul, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7278-1606-2 ( google.de [accessed on January 21, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Max Haller. Vegelahn Bible Archive, accessed on January 21, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Gerd Lüdemann, Martin Schröder: The religious history school in Göttingen: a documentation . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1987, ISBN 978-3-525-53582-0 ( google.de [accessed on January 21, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Werner Klatt: Hermann Gunkel . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969, ISBN 978-3-525-53226-3 ( google.de [accessed on January 21, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Haller, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Üechtland
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1949
Place of death Muri near Bern