Yohanan Lewy

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yohanan Lewy , actually Johannes "Hans" Lewy , (born March 21, 1901 in Berlin ; † July 22, 1945 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli classical philologist .

Life

Lewy was active in the Jewish youth movement . He received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1926, where he studied with Werner Jaeger , among others . He also studied at the University for the Science of Judaism in Berlin. In 1929 he was sent by the Prussian Academy of Sciences to Italy, the Middle East and Armenia to study the manuscripts of Philo of Alexandria ; At that time there was a project to publish Philon's works with a German translation. In 1933 he became a private lecturer in Berlin, but was not employed. He was briefly at the Berlin Jewish high schooland went to Palestine in 1933, where he was one of the founders of Latin Classical Philology at the Hebrew University (alongside Victor Tcherikover and Max Schwabe ).

He dealt with Hellenistic Judaism and especially Philo of Alexandria. A book on Chaldean oracles was published posthumously by him .

In the 1930s he began a collection of all pre-Christian Greek and Latin texts on Judaism, later continued by Menahem Stern ( Greek and Latin Authors on Jews and Judaism . Jerusalem 1976 to 1984).

In 1957 he was posthumously awarded the Israel Prize .

Publications (selection)

  • ΜΕΘΗ ΝΗΦΑΔΙΟΣ [Sobria ebrietas]. Studies on the history of ancient mysticism . Dissertation Berlin 1929.
    • printed sobria ebrietas. Studies on the history of ancient mysticism (= supplements to the journal for New Testament science 9). Töpelmann, Giessen 1929.
  • Philo of Alexandria: Of the Powers of God. A contemporary depiction of the persecution of the Jews under the Emperor Caligula . Berlin 1935 ( digitized ).
  • (Ed.): Philo, Philosophical Writings. Oxford 1946 (with Lewys biography by Max Schwabe)
  • Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy. Mysticism, Magic and Platonism in the Later Roman Empire. Cairo 1956; 3rd edition, Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-85121-243-6 (published after the author's death; with supplement Les Oracles chaldaïques 1891–2011 )
  • Olamot Nifgashim, Worlds meet, Studies in Jewish Hellenism. Jerusalem 1960

literature

  • Max Schwabe , J. Gutmann (Ed.): Sefer Yohanan Lewy . Jerusalem 1949.
  • Yohanan Hans Lewy , in: Röder, Strauss u. a .: Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933–1945 . KG Saur, Munich 1983, p.
  • Lewy, Yohanan Hans , in: Joseph Walk (Ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 233

Web links

Wikisource: Hans Lewy  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Lewy, Yohanan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lewy, Hans; Levi, Yohanan; Lewy, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1945
Place of death Jerusalem