Stefan Jakob Wimmer

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Stefan Jakob Wimmer

Stefan Jakob Wimmer (born March 26, 1963 in Munich ) is a German Egyptologist , orientalist and author and editor specializing in the history of religion and interreligious dialogue .

Life

Wimmer put 1982 his Abitur at the Gymnasium München / Moosach off, completed a professional training as a banker at Commerzbank , branch Dachau , and went in 1984 to study Egyptology and Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem , where he also took on teaching assignments. He worked, partly in a leading role, on excavations in Israel and Palestine , Egypt , Jordan and Greece . Since 1992 he has been living in Munich again; he is the father of three children.

Career

1994 Wimmer was Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Egyptology with a thesis on hieratic palaeography non-literary ostraca doctorate . He was involved in various, also international projects (including “Deir el Medine online”, LMU; “Philistine Project”, German-Israeli Foundation; “The Egyptian and Oriental Rubensohn Library, Aramaic Texts from Elephantine”, Papyrus Collection Berlin) 1998 to 2005 research assistant to Manfred Görg at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Munich and qualified as a professor in 2008 at the Cultural Studies Faculty of the University of Munich. In 2016 he was appointed adjunct professor.

Act

In addition to his research and teaching activities, Wimmer works full-time in the Orient and Asia Department of the Bavarian State Library as a specialist in Hebraica , Yiddish , the Ancient Orient and Egyptology. For the Dachau Forum he headed the memorial work department at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site until 1999 . In Munich, Wimmer designed thematic city tours of Jews and Muslims in Munich, the Old Southern and the Old Northern Cemetery for Stattreisen eV , among others .

In 2001 Manfred Görg founded the Society of Friends of Abraham with him for research into the history of religion and interreligious dialogue . After Görg's death in 2012, Wimmer became its first chairman. Together with Georg Gafus he publishes the magazine Blätter Abrahams. Contributions to the interreligious dialogue and together with Wolfgang Zwickel the series of publications Egypt and Old Testament (ÄAT). Wimmer is involved in the Munich Forum for Islam initiative of Imam Benjamin Idriz , where he temporarily served as deputy chairman and became the target of Islamophobic extremist groups. He is one of the organizers of the Nymphenburg Talks , was a founding member of Rabbi Steven Langnas' Munich Lehrhaus der Religionen and is a member of the Council of Religions in Munich, which was founded in 2016.

In 2006 he was awarded the Dialog Prize of the Intercultural Dialog Center Munich ( IDIZEM ); In the same year he received the sponsorship award Münchner Lichtblicke from the Foreigners' Advisory Board of the City of Munich and the Lichterkette eV for the Friends of Abraham, and in 2017, also for the Friends of Abraham, the Citizen Award of the Bavarian State Parliament .

Publications

Books (selection)

  • From Sulzbach to Tel Aviv. Hebrew New Acquisitions from 50 Years - 1965–2015. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-88008-009-6 (German and Hebrew).
  • with Ernst Wagner , Leyla Sedghi: Isar arabesques. Traces of the Orient in Munich (= Münchner STATTreisen. Volume 6). Allitera-Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86906-105-4 .
  • Munich and the Orient. With photographs by Ergün Cevik and a foreword by Christian Ude. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2012, ISBN 978-3-89870-774-9 .
  • with Benjamin Idriz, Stephan Leimgruber (eds.): Islam with a European face. Perspectives and impulses. Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 2010, ISBN 978-3-7666-1397-4 .
  • Palestinian hieratic. Numbers and special characters in the ancient Hebrew script (= Egypt and Old Testament. Volume 75). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05862-9 (also habilitation thesis).
  • Abu Safíja, Maria, where did you get that from? Female figures in the Koran. Edition Avicenna, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809384-4-0 .
  • with Stephan Leimgruber: From Adam to Muhammad. Bible and Koran in comparison. Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk, Munich / Stuttgart 2005; 2nd edition, ibid. 2007, ISBN 978-3-460-33175-4 .
  • Munich Stories of Abraham. Friends of Abraham, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025152-8 .
  • Past days - new awakening. Jewish life in Munich. A city tour. München-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-937090-18-4 .
  • Maschallah - Muslims in Munich. Stattreisen München eV, Munich 2005/2006.
  • with August Strobel : Kallirrhoë ('Ēn ez-Zāra). Third excavation campaign of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies of the Holy Land and excursions in South Peräa (= treatises of the German Palestine Association. Volume 32) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04735-6 .
  • Hieratic palaeography of the non-literary ostraka of the 19th and 20th dynasties (= Egypt and Old Testament. Volume 28). 2 volumes, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03776-8 (also dissertation).

Editing (selection)

  • together with Georg Gafus: “ Surrounded by life”. Egypt, the Old Testament and the Conversation of Religions. Commemorative letter for Manfred Görg. (= Egypt and Old Testament. Volume 80). Ugarit, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-86835-119-4 .
  • Egypt and Old Testament. Studies on the history, culture and religion of Egypt and the Old Testament. (Series of publications, ISSN  0720-9061 ; 2009–2012 edited by Manfred Görg and Stefan Wimmer, since 2014 edited by Stefan Wimmer and Wolfgang Zwickel).
  • Leaves of Abraham. Contributions to interreligious dialogue. (Journal, ISSN  1613-8384 ; 2002–2012 edited by Manfred Görg and Stefan Jakob Wimmer, since 2013 edited by Stefan Jakob Wimmer and Georg Gafus).

items

over 100 specialist articles, encyclopedia articles, reviews, editorials

literature

  • Theresia Lipp: "God cannot be described" - Stefan Jakob Wimmer is involved in interreligious dialogue with the "Friends of Abraham". In: Münchner Kirchenzeitung from October 29, 2017.
  • Beate Franz: “An idiot can destroy everything” . In: Frankenpost from January 16, 2016.
  • Felix Müller: The man who wants to build bridges . In: Münchner Merkur from June 16, 2014.
  • Bernd Kastner: The mediator. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from 14./15. August 2013.
  • Werner Siefer: The original alphabet discovered in Israel. In: Focus 37/2009 of September 7, 2009.
  • Jan Kirsten Biener: The trip to Jerusalem - and back again. In: Tatiana Hänert, Marta Reichenberger (ed.), Gallery of the real Munich. A project for the city's 850th birthday. City of Munich - Kulturreferat, Munich 2008, pp. 90–93.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Link of the Pharaohs. Egyptologists publish results on the Internet. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 25, 2001.
  2. ↑ Marcus Simon: On the trail of the Philistines. In: Insights: Reports on research at the Ludwig Maximilians University , 2006, pp. 83–86
  3. ↑ "The Egyptian and Oriental Rubensohn Library"
  4. ↑ Concept for memorial work. In: Dachauer Latest from April 7, 1999.
  5. ^ On the search for traces of Jewish life in Munich. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from 8./9. April 1993. Where Munich is Islamic. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from October 31/1. November 2001.
  6. ^ Wimmer Chairman of the Friends of Abraham. In: Münchner Kirchenzeitung from March 31, 2013.
  7. ↑ political incorrectness in Bavaria. A fire letter. In: Neue Rheinische Zeitung of March 20, 2010. Under suspicion. In: The time . Dossier from May 12, 2011.
  8. ↑ Munich gets the Council of Religions. ( Memento from August 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayerischer Rundfunk from July 14, 2016.
  9. ^ "Münchner Lichtblicke 2006" sponsorship award . On: freunde-abrahams.de ; Retrieved August 3, 2016.
  10. ^ A matter of faith , Bavarian television , evening show October 19, 2017, accessed on October 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Wimmer, Stefan Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wimmer, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Egyptologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich