Robert Hanhart

Robert Hanhart (born July 6, 1925 in St. Gallen ) is a Swiss Protestant theologian . He is particularly concerned with the transmission of the Septuagint .

Hanhart first studied classical philology and history in Basel . After his doctorate as Dr. phil. hist. (1954) he initially worked for a year on the Middle Latin dictionary . He then moved to the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , where he worked as a research assistant at the Septuagint company . In 1961 he was appointed head of the department. In 1962 he was at the University of Goettingen to the Dr. theol. PhD.

During his more than 30 years of activity, Hanhart supervised numerous volumes of the Septuagint company and also published several publications himself. His edition of the book Esther was accepted as a habilitation thesis in 1965 ; In 1967 Hanhart was appointed adjunct professor for the Old Testament. For his services to Septuagint research, he received honorary doctorates from the universities of Bologna and Helsinki . Even after his retirement (1993) Hanhart remained active as a volunteer and member of the management committee for the project.

Fonts (selection)

• The image of Joan of Arc in French historiography from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment . Basel 1955 (dissertation)
• To the text of the 2nd and 3rd Book of Maccabees . Göttingen 1961 ( communications from the Septuaginta company 7; also as a dissertation, Göttingen 1962)
• Three Studies on Judaism . Munich 1967
• Text and text history of the 1st book of Esra . Göttingen 1974 ( communications from the Septuagint company 12)
• Text and text history of the book Judith . Göttingen 1979 ( communications from the Septuagint company 14)
• Text and text history of the book Tobit . Göttingen 1984 ( communications from the Septuagint company 17)
• Zechariah . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1990 ( Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament )
• An unknown text from the Greek Ezra tradition . Göttingen 1995 ( communications from the Septuagint company 22)
• Text and text history of the 2nd Esra book . Göttingen 2003 ( communications from the Septuagint company 25)

Editing

• Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Vol IX, 2: Maccabaeorum liber II . Göttingen 1959. 3rd, revised edition 2008
• Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Vol IX, 3: Maccabaeorum liber III . Göttingen 1960. 2nd, revised edition 1980
• Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Vol VIII, 3: Esther . Göttingen 1966. 2nd, revised edition 1983
• Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Vol VIII, 1: Esdræ liber I . Göttingen 1974. 2nd, revised edition 1991
• Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Vol VIII, 4: Iudith . Göttingen 1979
• Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Vol VIII, 5: Tobit . Göttingen 1983
• Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Vol VIII, 2: Esdræ liber I . Göttingen 1993
• Vetus Testamentum Graecum auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis editum. Vol VII, 2: Paralipomenon liber II . Göttingen 2014

literature

• D. Fraenkel, JW Wevers, Udo Quast (eds.): Studies on the Septuagint - Robert Hanhart to honor. On the occasion of his 65th birthday . Goettingen 1990
• Reinhard Gregor Kratz (ed.): Studies on the Septuagint and Hellenistic Judaism . Tübingen 1999

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Hanhart in the catalog of the German National Library