Siegfried Herrmann (theologian)

Siegfried Herrmann (born May 15, 1926 in Dresden , † January 30, 1999 in Bochum ) was a German Protestant theologian, Old Testament scholar and Egyptologist.

Herrmann was drafted into the flak in 1943, wounded as a soldier and taken prisoner by the French.

After his release, Siegfried Herrmann studied Protestant theology and ancient oriental studies at the University of Leipzig in 1947 . He was a student and later assistant to Albrecht Alt . He also studied Egyptology with Siegfried Morenz . In 1955 he received his doctorate in Egyptology, in 1957 in Protestant theology, which was followed by his habilitation in 1959.

Siegfried Herrmann had been a lecturer since 1960, and from 1964 to 1966 professor of the Old Testament at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1964 he received a call to the newly founded Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1966 he was able to leave the German Democratic Republic and held a professorship for the Old Testament in Bochum from 1966 until his retirement in 1991.

Siegfried Herrmann was a member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences from 1973 . From 1980 to 1994 he was President of the Canstein Bible Institute .

Among his publications, the history of Israel in the Old Testament period (1973) is particularly widespread as a standard work. It has been translated into English, Italian, Spanish and Hungarian.

Fonts (selection)

• The prophetic expectations of salvation in the Old Testament. Origin and shape change. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1965 (also dissertation, Leipzig).
• Israel's stay in Egypt. Catholic Biblical Work, Stuttgart 1970, ISBN 978-3-460-03401-3 .
• History of Israel in Old Testament Times. 3rd edition, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin, Berlin 1985, ISBN 978-3-4590-1253-4 .
• Time and history. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [a. a.] 1977, ISBN 978-3-17-001925-6 .
• Collected studies on the history and theology of the Old Testament. Kaiser, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3-459-01618-1 .
• Jeremiah (= Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament XII). Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1986/90, ISBN 9783788707873 (only two deliveries).
• Jeremiah. The Prophet and the Book. Knowledge Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 978-3-534-09047-1 .
• History and prophecy. Small writings on the Old Testament. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [a. a.] 2002, ISBN 978-3-17-017261-6 .

literature

• Rüdiger Liwak , Siegfried Wagner (ed.): Prophecy and historical reality in ancient Israel. Festschrift for Siegfried Herrmann on his 65th birthday. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart [a. a.] 1991, ISBN 978-3-17-011314-5 .
• Bernd Moeller, Bruno Jahn (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia of Theology and the Churches . Volume 1. Saur, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-598-11666-7 . P. 642.

Web links

• Ruhr University Bochum: Academic commemoration for Prof. Siegfried Herrmann. Retrieved September 23, 2018.