Peter Jentzmik

Peter Jentzmik (born May 17, 1943 in Limburg an der Lahn ) is a German Catholic theologian and religious philosopher.

Life

In 1962 Jentzmik began studying German / Medieval Studies , Philosophy and Catholic Theology at the University of Freiburg . In the same year he joined the Catholic German Student Union Hohenstaufen zu Freiburg im Breisgau. In the years up to 1970 Jentzmik first moved to the University of Innsbruck , then to the University of Marburg , where Jentzmik completed his studies.

In the following years he initially worked as a research assistant in the Wolfram Research Center at the Institute for Older German Philology at the University of Marburg, before receiving his doctorate in philosophy in 1973 with the dissertation on the possibilities and limits of typological exegesis in medieval sermons and poetry .

After receiving his doctorate in 1973, Jentzmik moved to the Fürst-Johann-Ludwig-Schule in Hadamar as a high school teacher in 1974 , where he taught German, Catholic religion and Hebrew until his retirement in 2006. From 1984 to 1989 he was commissioned by the Hessian Minister of Education to revise the Hessian course structure plan for the subject of Catholic religion. In addition to his teaching activity, Jentzmik trained as a Shiatsu therapist for acupressure therapy from 1992 to 1994 . In 1993 he founded Glaukos Verlag, publishing house for literature and science based in Limburg . From 2007 to 2017 he taught Hebrew at the Philosophical-Theological College / University of Vallendar .

In 2003, at the suggestion of Eugen Biser , Jentzmik was appointed a full member of class VII (world religions) of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg . From 2002 to 2011 he was a member of the board of trustees of the Eugen Biser Foundation in Munich. Jentzmik has been a member of the St. Hildegard Academy Eibingen, center for science, research and European spirituality, since 2019.

Publications

as an author

• On the possibilities and limits of typological exegesis in medieval sermons and poetry (= Göppingen works on German studies, vol. 112), Göppingen 1973
• Joints of space. in: Daszeichen, Limburg 1980, pp. 222–224
• To the edge of the earth. Zen in the Art of Haiku , Limburg 1997
• The dance of the sun. Zen in the Art of Haiku , Limburg 1999
• To the edge of the earth. , Composition by Rouven E. Hoffmann for vocalists and chamber orchestra based on texts by Peter Jentzmik (world premiere on September 10, 2006), Limburg 2006
• The idea and ethos of wisdom in Eugen Biser's early work , in: R. Heinzmann / M. Thurner (eds.), Die Mitte des Christianentums. Introduction to the theology of Eugen Bisers, Darmstadt 2011, pp. 29–39
• Michael Broch / Peter Jentzmik, The Our Father re-spelled , Limburg 2015
• The song of songs after Solomon. Translate from Biblia Hebraica, bilingual edition, Limburg 2017
• Eugen Biser's doctrine of the virtues of enlightenment in his early work 'The Cosmos of Virtues' , in: Yearbook for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 17, Freiburg / Munich 2019, pp. 21–38
• The view from the window. A central motif in Eichendorff's poetry , Limburg 2020

as editor and editor

• Eugen Biser, Wisdom - Idea and Ethos, Limburg 2011

as editor

• Sebastian Brant, Der Richerliche Clagspiegel. An investigation, Limburg 1993
• Emil Herrmann, ways to think or the attempt to make sense of a philosophical worldview, Limburg 1999
• Eugen Biser, God in Man's Horizon, Limburg 2001
• Fasti Limpurgenses 1336-1398. Reprint of the baroque edition of the Limburg Chronicle by Tilemann Elhen von Wolfhagen from 1720, Limburg 2003
• Walter Flögel, Limburg Views, Limburg 2003
• Eugen Biser, Chances of Being a Christian, CD Edition, Limburg 2005
• Eugen Biser, Man in God's Horizon, Limburg 2007
• Eugen Biser, Horizons. Essays on a New Theology and Anthropology, Limburg 2008
• Walter Flögel, Limburg - Living in an old town, Limburg 2010

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Jentzmik in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Glaukos Verlag