Hans Conzelmann

Hans Conzelmann ( born October 27, 1915 in Tailfingen (Württemberg ), † June 20, 1989 in Göttingen ) was a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholars.

Life

Hans Conzelmann grew up in Tailfingen and attended middle school. The father had died early. A local pastor nevertheless allowed him through instruction in the ancient languages ​​but the country examination which entitled to a secondary school attendance at a seminar. 1934 became Conzelmann as a high school and began studying Protestant theology in Tübingen at the local Tubingen. In 1936 he moved to the University of Marburg, where he was mainly influenced by Hans Freiherr von Soden and Rudolf Bultmann. There he joined in 1936 the Clausthal Wingolf at Marburg. In 1938 he took after the first theological examination on his vicariate, but was still used in the autumn of the year for military service. After a serious injury in 1944 and in 1946, Conzelmann could drop the Second Theological Examination and take a job as a research assistant at Helmut Thielicke at the University of Tübingen. At the same time he was employed as a locum tenens a pastorate in Ohnastetten in Reutlingen.

From 1948 he worked as a religion teacher at a high school. 1951 his dissertation, 1952 his habilitation from the University of Heidelberg was adopted. Now Conzelmann received a teaching position for the New Testament. In 1954 he was appointed as associate professor at the University of Zurich, where he was a full professor in 1956. 1960 finally followed Conzelmann a chair at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen, where he held the chair of New Testament until his retirement in 1978.

Conzelmann's thesis and his habilitation dealt respectively with the Lukan theology. To set the dissertation, which focuses on the geographical ideas in the Gospel of Luke, and his habilitation thesis, 1954 under the title The meridian of time. Studies on the theology of Luke appeared and treated the problem of the delay of the parousia of Christ in Luke's thinking, in addition to the work of Willi Marxsen and Günther Bornkamm the beginning of the historical editorial work on the Synoptic Gospels dar.

Writings

  • The center of the time. Studies on the theology of Luke, habilitation thesis, Heidelberg, 1952 ( 7th edition Mohr, Tübingen, 1993, ISBN 3-16-145946-6 )
  • Together with Andreas Lindemann: Outline of New Testament Theology ( 6th Edition Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-16-146811-2 )
  • Together with Andreas Lindemann: Workbook for New Testament, JCB Mohr Siebeck UTB Paul, Tübingen 1975 ( several editions, ISBN 3-8252-0052-3 )
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