Otto Eißfeldt

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Otto Eißfeldt (born September 1, 1887 in Northeim , † April 23, 1973 in Halle / Saale) was a Protestant theologian . He was known as an Old Testament scholar and religious historian .

Life

Otto Eißfeldt studied Protestant theology and oriental languages in Göttingen and Berlin from 1905 to 1912 . In 1913 he completed his habilitation in Berlin for the subject of the Old Testament , and in 1916 he received his doctorate. phil. in Göttingen. From 1913 to 1920 he taught in Berlin, from 1921 as full professor for the Old Testament at the theological faculty in Halle .

From 1922 to 1928 he was a member of the DNVP . During the Nazi era , Eißfeldt had been a member of the Nazi teachers' association since 1934 .

In 1945 Eißfeldt joined the CDU . In the same year he became rector of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Eißfeldt remained full professor in Halle, but held a visiting professorship in Tübingen , among other things . He retired in 1957 . His grave is in the Laurentius cemetery in Halle.

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Eißfeldt was one of the most prominent representatives of the literary critical school in the wake of Julius Wellhausen and Rudolf Smend . His teachers in the field of religious history were Hermann Gunkel and Wolf Wilhelm Friedrich Graf von Baudissin . The hexateuch synopsis and the extensive introduction to the Old Testament are outstanding examples of his literary-critical research achievements; his numerous works on the Phoenician religion (especially due to the texts of Ugarit ) are to be emphasized in the field of oriental religious history . As a religious historian in particular, he was considered an expert of international standing. As a canon and long-time dean of the United Cathedral Monasteries in Merseburg and Naumburg and the Zeitz Collegial Monastery, he put his energy into the service of the administration of ecclesiastical and ecclesiastical heritage. The universities in Berlin and Glasgow and the Reformed Theological Academy in Budapest awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Awards (selection)

Publications

  • Hexateuch synopsis. The story of the five books of Moses and the book of Joshua with the beginning of the Book of Judges . Leipzig 1922 (Nachdr. Darmstadt 1962 and others)
  • Introduction to the Old Testament including the apocrypha and pseudepigraphs . Tübingen 1934 (2nd edition 1956, 3rd edition 1964, 4th edition 1976)
  • Molk as a term of sacrifice in Punic and Hebrew and the end of the god Moloch . Contributions to the religious history of antiquity 3. Halle 1935.
  • Temples and cults of Syrian cities in the Hellenistic-Roman period. JC Hinrichs Verlag, Leipzig 1941
  • El in the Ugaritic pantheon. Reports on the negotiations of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Philological-historical class. Volume 98, Issue 4. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1951
  • From Ugarit to Qumran. Contributions to Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern research. Otto Eißfeldt presented on September 1, 1957 by friends and students. Eds. Johannes Hempel / Leonhard Rost (supplements to the journal for Old Testament science 77), Berlin 1958 (2nd edition 1961)
  • New wedge-alphabetical texts from Ras Shamra-Ugarit. Berlin 1965
  • Small fonts. Edited by Rudolf Sellheim / Fritz Maaß, 6 volumes: I. Tübingen 1962; II. Tübingen 1963; III. Tübingen 1966; IV. Tübingen 1968; V. Tübingen 1973 (with bibliography); VI. Tuebingen 1979.
  • Small writings on the Old Testament. Edited by Karl-Martin Beyse, Hans-Jürgen Zobel , Berlin 1971

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The alternative spelling Eissfeldt , which can sometimes be found, goes back to a misinterpretation of the frequent spelling in uppercase (EISSFELDT) on book titles.
  2. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , pp. 78-79.
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 ; P. 133.
  4. ↑ Short biography on:  EISSFELDT, OTTO . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  5. ↑ Neue Zeit newspaper , May 12, 1973
  6. ^ Members of the SAW: Otto Eißfeldt. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 15, 2016 .
  7. ^ Neue Zeit, October 12, 1955, p. 1
  8. ↑ Neue Zeit , March 22, 1956, p. 2
  9. ^ Neue Zeit , October 2, 1957, p. 4
  10. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 24, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , May 5, 1965, p. 4
  12. ^ Neue Zeit, September 15, 1967, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Eißfeldt, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and politician, MdV
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Northeim
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1973
Place of death Hall