Peter Nagel (religious historian)

Peter Nagel

Peter Carl Nagel (born April 3, 1938 in Erdmannsdorf ) is a German Protestant theologian , coptologist and religious historian .

After graduating from high school in 1956, Peter Nagel began studying Protestant theology, oriental studies and Egyptology at the University of Leipzig . In 1961 he passed the theological state examination and became a research assistant, from 1964 a lecturer at the Institute for Byzantine Studies at the University of Halle . In July 1961 he received his doctorate in theology with Johannes Leipoldt and Franz Lau on the subject of motivating asceticism in the old church , in September 1965 with Leipoldt and Siegfried Morenz for philology with the thesis investigations on the grammar of the subachmimic dialect . After the second doctorate he became senior assistant at the Institute for Byzantine Studies . In October 1967 he completed his habilitation in Halle with Otto Eißfeldt , Hans-Joachim Diesner , Johannes Irmscher and Kurt Rudolph on the subject of The Anti-Manichaean Writings of Titus von Bostra . Since September 1980, Nagel taught as an associate professor at the University of Halle. From 1988 to 1992 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

From 1993 until his retirement in 2003 he was professor for the science of the Christian Orient at the Oriental Department of the University of Bonn .

His research areas include in particular the Coptic and Syrian languages and their literatures, the New Testament Apocrypha , Gnosis and Manichaeism .

Fonts

• The motivation of asceticism in the old church and the origin of monasticism (= texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature . Vol. 95). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1966
• (Ed.): From Nag Hammadi to Cyprus. A collection of essays. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972
• (Ed.): Studia coptica (= Berlin Byzantine works. Vol. 43). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1974.
• Bibliography on Russian and Soviet Coptic Studies (= works from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle an der Saale. Vol. 23). University and State Library, Halle 1978.
• (Ed.): Studies on the image of man in Gnosis and Manichaeism (= Scientific contributions from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. 1979, Vol. 39; K / Byzantinistische Contributions. Vol. 5 / Congress and conference reports of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg). Science journalism from Martin Luther University, Halle 1979.
• The Thomas Psalms of the Coptic-Manichean Book of Psalms. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1980.
• The Tractatus Tripartitus from Nag Hammadi Codex I (Codex Jung). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1998.

literature

• Walter Beltz , Ute Pietruschka, Jürgen Tubach (eds.): Language and Spirit. Peter Nagel on his 65th birthday (= Hallesche Contributions to Oriental Studies . Vol. 35). Halle (Saale) 2003 (list of publications pp. III-XVII; table of contents ).
• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 448.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Nagel in the catalog of the German National Library