Norbert Brox
Norbert Brox (born June 23, 1935 in Paderborn ; † September 30, 2006 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Catholic theologian . He was Professor of Ancient Church History and Patrology and holder of the Chair of Historical Theology at the University of Regensburg .
Life
Norbert Brox studied theology, philosophy and classical philology in Paderborn and Munich from 1955 to 1962 after completing his school-leaving examination in 1955 at the Petrinum Gymnasium in Brilon (North Rhine-Westphalia) and earned his doctorate in New Testament exegesis in 1961. In 1965 he received the Cardinal Innitzer Prize . After several years as an assistant at the International Research Center for Basic Science in Salzburg, as a non-priest, he succeeded in gaining teaching authorization at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Graz in 1966 .
In 1969 he was appointed associate professor for Catholic theology and religious education at the PH Munich . At the Catholic Faculty of the University of Regensburg , he had been teaching the subjects of Ancient Church History and Patrology since 1968. After a waiting period of six years due to his lay status, the faculty appointed him to the chair of historical theology in 1973, which included the subjects he had already represented. He was able to hold this position until his retirement in 2000.
In 1993 Brox was appointed to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
Brox was co-editor of the Fontes Christiani source collection . For them he translated the main work of the theologian Irenaeus of Lyons Adversus haereses . Brox also wrote the RAC article on Irenaeus of Lyon.
Norbert Brox had been married since 1962; his marriage had two children.
Works (small selection)
- Wrong author information. To explain the early Christian pseudepigraphy (Stuttgarter Bibelstudien, Volume 79). KBW , Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 978-3-46003-791-5
- Pseudepigraphy in Pagan and Judeo-Christian Antiquity . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1977, ISBN 978-3-534-07061-9 .
- The first letter of Peter ( EKK , volume 21). Benziger / Neukirchener, Einsiedeln 1979, 4th edition 1994, ISBN 978-3-54523-115-3 (translations into several languages)
- Spirituality and Orthodoxy. On Origen's conflict with the history of dogma. In: Pietas - Festschrift for Bernhard Kötting. Münster 1980, pp. 140-154
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Church history of antiquity. Patmos, Düsseldorf 1983 (numerous new editions, most recently 2004, ISBN 3-491-69063-3 )
- (Spanish transl. :) Historia de la Iglesia primitiva (1986)
- (Engl. Transl. :) A Concise History of the Early Church (1992 and a.)
- (Posthumously :) Ferdinand R. Prostmeier , Knut Wenzel (Ed.): Faith as a way and as a testimony. According to biblical and early Christian evidence. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-786-72813-9
literature
- Ferdinand R. Prostmeier: Brox, Norbert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 35, Bautz, Nordhausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-88309-882-1 , Sp. 189-203.
- Online, ders .: Norbert Brox (1935-2006). (PDF; 266 kB) (12 printed pages, contains text from the BBKL article and a portrait photo of Norbert Brox)
- Volker Bierbrauer : Norbert Brox June 23, 1935– September 30, 2006. In: Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Yearbook 2006, Munich 2007, pp. 335–338 ( online ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Norbert Brox in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary (PDF; 221 kB) by Manfred Weitlauff in the journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
- Lecture with Norbert Brox in the online archive of the Austrian Mediathek
- Heinz Robert Schlette : Early Christianity and its history. To an anthology by Norbert Brox
- Photography by Norbert Brox [2]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Weitlauf: Obituary Norbert Brox. Akademie Aktuell 01/2007, pp. 54–55 [1]
- ↑ Ferdinand Prostmeier: Brox, Norbert . In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , vol. 35. Nordhausen 2014, col. 189.
- ↑ Ferdinand Prostmeier: Brox, Norbert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , vol. 35. Nordhausen 2014, col. 190.
- ↑ Ferdinand Prostmeier: Brox, Norbert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , vol. 35. Nordhausen 2014, col. 191.
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SURNAME | Brox, Norbert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Catholic theologian |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 23, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Paderborn |
DATE OF DEATH | September 30, 2006 |
Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |