Wolfgang Schenk (theologian)

Wolfgang Schenk (born April 29, 1934 in Jena ; † December 29, 2015 in Saarbrücken ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor .

life and work

Wolfgang Schenk attended school in Jena and graduated from there with a school leaving certificate. He then enrolled at the University of Jena . He studied theology , philosophy , education and psychology . From 1957 to 1967 he worked as a pastor in the Thuringian regional church. In 1967 he was offered a professorship for language, literature and the history of early Christianity at the Catechetical College in Naumburg (Saale) . Wolfgang Schenk was rector there from 1972 to 1973. From 1972 to 1980 he was theological director of the working group for Protestant theology in the GDR. In 1981 he moved to the Federal Republic of Germany, but was unable to fill a permanent academic teaching or research position there. Instead, from 1981, he initially took over a professorship at the universities of Göttingen, Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt and Bonn. He later held visiting professorships at universities in Amsterdam, Uppsala and Vienna. In 1965 he was co-author of the memorandum on Christian Peace Service. Handout for pastoral care for conscripts (prepared on behalf of the Conference of Church Governments ) and since then has been involved in the East and West German peace movement.

Schenk published numerous semantic and semiotic writings on theology and worked on the Theological Real Encyclopedia and the collection Rise and Fall of the Roman World .

Web links

Literature by and about Wolfgang Schenk in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

↑ Saarbrücken registry office Reg. S 1/2016.
↑ Ulrich Schröter, Harald Schultze (ed.): In the shadow of the cathedral - Theological training in Naumburg 1949–1993. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-374-03048-4 , p. 330.
↑ In the shadow of the cathedral, p. 338.
↑ Above all, the internal regulations of the Evangelical Churches prevented this from generally not offering academic apprenticeships to emigrants from the GDR, in order not to encourage potential emigration.

personal data
SURNAME	Schenk, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jena
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 2015
Place of death	Saarbrücken

[1] Saarbrücken registry office Reg. S 1/2016.

[2] Ulrich Schröter, Harald Schultze (ed.): In the shadow of the cathedral - Theological training in Naumburg 1949–1993. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt GmbH Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-374-03048-4 , p. 330.

[3] In the shadow of the cathedral, p. 338.

[4] Above all, the internal regulations of the Evangelical Churches prevented this from generally not offering academic apprenticeships to emigrants from the GDR, in order not to encourage potential emigration.