Rudolf Abramowski

Rudolf Abramowski (born May 15, 1900 ; † early March 1945 during deportation to the Urals) was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist .

After studying theology in Königsberg in East Prussia , which he completed in 1928 with a doctorate on Tritojesaja , he was pastor of the German Reformed Church in Riga until 1939 and at the same time lecturer in the Old Testament and Oriental Studies at the Herder Institute there . After the resettlement of the German Balts in 1939, he was pastor in Lyck (East Prussia).

In addition to the pastor's office and teaching, he wrote numerous scientific papers on his field of work. At the end of the war he was captured and deported for forced labor, where he died in early March 1945.

His daughter was the church historian Luise Abramowski (1928-2014).

Works (selection)

• The book of the praying servant of God. The Psalms Part Two; for friends and despisers of the Bible , Calwer Vereinbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1939 (The message of the old testament, volume 15).

• Dionysius von Tellmahre, Jacobite Patriarch from 818 - 845. On the history of the Church under Islam , Brockhaus, Leipzig 1940 (Treatises for the Customer of the Orient, Volume 25.2).

literature

• Luise Abramowski . In: Logos, Festschrift for Luise Abramowski. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, p. 633.
• Heinrich Wittram: German Baltic theologians between ethnic pull and Reformation reflection in Latvia and Estonia. In: Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich. 2nd Edition. 1. Volume, Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-12199-0 , pp. 217–244.

Font directory

• Hanns Christof Brennecke : Bibliography Rudolf Abramowski. In: Logos, Festschrift for Luise Abramowski. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1993, pp. 634-640.