Otto Procksch

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Otto Procksch (around 1925)

Otto Procksch (born August 9, 1874 in Eisenberg (Thuringia) , † April 7, 1947 in Alterschrofen , Bavarian Swabia ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian ( Old Testament scholar ).

Life

Procksch studied Protestant theology at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen . From 1906 he held a professorship at the Royal / Prussian University of Greifswald . In 1907/08 and 1913 he took part in research excursions of the German Palestine Institute (Jerusalem) under Gustaf Dalman on a scholarship . In 1917 he became honorary philistine of the Greifswalder Wingolf . In 1925 Procksch switched to the Old Testament chair in Erlangen . Procksch is considered a teacher of theologians such as Albrecht Alt , Walther Eichrodt or Gerhard von Rad .

Politically, Procksch, like his colleagues Althaus and Elert , was nationally conservative and monarchist and rejected National Socialism .

Otto Procksch was related to Elisabeth Procksch. Wenck, b. Anders (1867–1951) married. His father was the classical philologist August Procksch .

Publications

Otto Procksch's grave monument at the parish church of St. Maria and Florian in Schwangau-Waltenhofen
  • Theology of the Old Testament , 4 deliveries, Gütersloh 1949–1950.
  • The Confession in the Old Testament , Leipzig 1936.
  • The idea of ​​the state in prophecy , Gütersloh 1933.
  • Isaiah (Commentary on the Old Testament 9), Leipzig 1930/32.
  • The Genesis (Commentary on the Old Testament 1), Leipzig 1913.
  • The little prophetic writings before exile (Explanations on the Old Testament 3), Calw / Stuttgart 1910.

literature

  • Karlmann Beyschlag : Die Erlanger Theologie , Erlangen 1993, pp. 147–149.
  • Gary C. Fouse: Erlangen. An American's history of a German town , New York / Toronto 2005, therein: p. 195.
  • Horst Simonsen: Leonhard Goppel (1911–1973), a theological biography. Exegesis in theological and ecclesiastical responsibility (also Diss., Nürnberg / Erlangen, 2004), Göttingen 2004, therein: pp. 52–53.
  • Erich Stange (ed.): The study of religion in self-portrayals , Vol. 2, Leipzig 1926, p. 161ff.
  • Festschrift Otto Procksch. For his 60th birthday on August 9th , presented by Albrecht Alt et al., Leipzig 1934.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of course participants ( memento from August 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) ( access date: May 24, 2017).
  2. ↑ Karlmann Beayschlag: The Erlanger theology . Martin-Luther-Verlag, Erlangen 1993, ISBN 3-87513-086-3 , p. 147 .
personal data
SURNAME Procksch, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian (Old Testament scholar)
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenberg (Thuringia)
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1947
Place of death Alterschrofen , Bavarian Swabia