Wolfgang Hage

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Wolfgang Hage (born November 5, 1935 in Römhild ) is a German church historian and former university professor .

Life

Hage studied Protestant theology from 1955 to 1959 at the universities of Bonn , Tübingen and Münster . From 1962 to 1972 he was assistant at the chair for Eastern Church History at the Theological Faculty of the University of Marburg . In 1964 the doctorate took place here, in 1971 the habilitation for the subject "Church history with special consideration of the Christian Orient" and in 1972 the appointment as professor. In 1975 he became professor for "Oriental (especially Syrian) church history" at the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen . From 1981 to 2001 he was a university professor for church history with a focus on Eastern Church history in the Protestant theology department of the Philipps University of Marburg. From 1983 to 1993 he was also Ephorus of the Hessian Scholarship Institution .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Syriac Jacobite Church in the early Islamic period according to oriental sources. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1964 (dissertation, Marburg, University, 1964).
  • Investigations into the life of Christians in Central Asia in the Middle Ages. Marburg 1970 (unprinted habilitation thesis, Marburg, University).
  • Syriac Christianity in the East. Lectures given at the St. Ephrem Ecumenical Institute, Kottayam in March 1986 (= Moran Etho. Vol. 1). St. Ephrem Ecumenical Institute, Kottayam 1988; 2nd edition 1997.
  • Christianity in the early Middle Ages (476-1054). From the end of the Western Roman Empire to the West-Eastern Schism (= approaches to church history. Vol. 4). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993.
  • Oriental Christianity (= the religions of mankind. Vol. 29/2). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007.

literature

  • Martin Tamcke , Wolfgang Schwaigert, Egbert Schlarb (eds.): Syrian Christianity worldwide. Studies on Syrian Church History. Festschrift Wolfgang Hage (= Studies on Oriental Church History. Vol. 1). Lit, Münster 1995.
  • Martin Tamcke, Andreas Heinz (ed.): The Suryoye and their environment. 4th German Syrologists Symposium in Trier 2004. Wolfgang Hage's 70th birthday celebration (= studies on oriental church history. Vol. 36). Lit, Münster 2005.

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personal data
SURNAME Hage, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Römhild