Peter Nober

Peter Nober S. J. (born August 13, 1912 in Murville , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † September 27, 1980 in Munich ) was a German Jesuit, librarian and bibliographer .

Life

Peter Nober grew up in Murville. After the end of the First World War , his family left the city and moved to Germany. Peter Nober joined the Societas Jesu in 1932 and was ordained a priest in 1941. He completed his theological studies at the universities of Frankfurt am Main , Giessen and Münster . From 1946 to 1949 he continued his studies at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome , where he was finally employed as a librarian.

From 1949 until his death, Nober edited the Elenchus Bibliographicus Biblicus , the annual literature review of the Biblica magazine , one of the most important bibliographic aids for bibliographic research. The steadily growing number of relevant publications prompted him to publish an Elenchus Suppletorius in addition to Elenchus in the Verbum Domini magazine from 1960 . In 1968 he decoupled the Elenchus Bibliographicus Biblicus from the journal Biblica , as the literature review had grown to around 5000 titles a year.

Nober, who worked alternately in Rome, Munich and Tübingen , received rich recognition for his achievements. The Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas elected him a member in August 1969, the Pontifical Biblical Institute appointed him in 1970 as a "Collaborator Scientificus Ordinarius" (regular academic staff). For his 25th anniversary as editor of Elenchus Bibliographicus Biblicus , the Papal Biblical Institute dedicated a special volume of the magazine to him with contributions by Moshe Goshen-Gottstein , Walther Zimmerli , Béda Rigaux and Marc Dyckmans.

Nober worked incessantly on the continuation of the literary report until his death. In recent years, a progressive disease prevented him from including all new releases. Shortly before his death, he gave his brother Robert North S. J., who visited Nober in the hospital in Munich, precise instructions for the material from 1979 that was already available and for the supplements for the years 1976–1978. The entire volume, mostly Nber's legacy, was released in the summer of 1981.

literature

• Maurice Gilbert: In memoriam Patris Peter Nober, SJ In: Biblica . Volume 61 (1980), pp. 596 f.
• anonymous: In memoriam Peter Nober, SJ In: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly . Volume 43 (1981), p. 434 ( JSTOR 43718899 )

Web links

• Literature by Peter Nober in the catalog of the German National Library