Robert Bach (theologian)

Robert Bach (born August 4, 1926 in Höhscheid , † August 31, 2010 in Wuppertal ) was a German Protestant theologian. From 1959 until his retirement in 1991 he was full professor of the Old Testament at the Wuppertal Church University .

Life

Robert Bach was the first child of the married couple Julius Friedrich Robert Bach (1891–1971), pastor in the Höhscheid district of Widdert, and Elisabeth Risch (1898–1965), a licensed doctor. After graduating from high school in Bochum in September 1943, he was drafted into the labor service and in January 1944 into the military. At the end of the war he became a British prisoner of war, from which he was released in August 1945. Bach was one of the first students at the Wuppertal Church University, which was re-established in 1945: On November 16, 1945, Robert Bach was enrolled with matriculation number 2. In 1947 he moved to the Georg August University in Göttingen , and in 1948 Bach spent a guest year at the University of Basel . In 1951 he passed the first theological exam in Bielefeld .

From 1951 to 1955 Robert Bach was assigned first as vicar, then as pastor in the auxiliary service of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn . Robert Bach received his doctorate there in 1951 under Hans-Joachim Kraus with a traditional-history-oriented work on the subject of The Election of Israel in the Desert , in which he examined the desert tradition as one of the Pentateuch traditions . From 1955 to 1962 he was a research assistant and lecturer in Bonn, where he joined in 1956 with a thesis on the form of historical research on the foreign peoples spells the book of Jeremiah habilitation , which then in 1962 under the title The calls for escape and fight in the Old Testament prophets saying the ninth band the series Scientific Monographs on the Old and New Testament was edited by the Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft . As the successor to Hans Walter Wolff , Robert Bach first became a lecturer and then full professor for the Old Testament at the church college in Wuppertal in 1959.

In addition to the books of the prophets and others, the focus of Bach's research and teaching activities was a. Studies on the Book of Ezra . His contribution Esra 1. The author, his "sources" and his topic for the Festschrift for Hans Jochen Boecker (1993) convey fundamental knowledge about the process of creation and the transmission of the book.

literature

without author: Obituary Prof em. Dr. Robert Bach , in: KiHo-Info October 2010, Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal / Bethel, Wuppertal 2010, p. 11f.