Peter Christian Albrecht Jensen ( German: Herbert Birtner ; August 16, 1861, Bordeaux - August 16, 1936, Marburg ) is a German orientalist , professor at the University of Marburg [3] [4] [5] , author of The Cosmology of the Babylonians (1890) and " Gilgamesh in world literature" (1906).
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Biography
Peter Christian Albrecht Jensen was born into the family of Pastor Conrad Jensen. Peter Christian grew up in Schleswig-Holstein , where he attended gymnasium until 1879. In 1880, he became a student in the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig : soon, under the leadership of Friedrich Delich , he began to specialize in oriental studies, with a focus on assyriology . In 1883, Jensen began to study with Eberhard Schrader in Berlin . In 1884, after defending his Ph.D. dissertation under the leadership of Schrader and Eduard Zachau , Jensen went to Kiel and Strasbourg , where in 1888 he defended his doctoral dissertation. In 1892, he received an invitation from the University of Marburg to succeed Julius Vellhausen : here, from 1895 to 1928, Jensen taught as a professor of Semitic languages . On November 11, 1933, Peter Jensen was among the more than 900 scholars and professors at German universities and universities who signed the " Statement of Professors Supporting Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State ."
Even in his dissertation, Peter Christian Jensen studied the Babylonian-Assyrian religious literature, and in 1890 published the book Cosmology of the Babylonians (Die Kosmologie der Babylonier) [6] : when comparing various myths, he managed to show parallels between the epic about Gilgamesh , the ancient Greek myths (especially in Homer's account) and Israeli “legends,” including the New Testament story of Jesus . Jensen continued to develop this topic further: in 1906, he published the monumental work “Gilgames in the World Literature” (Das Gilgamesch-Epos in der Weltliteratur) [7] , where he compared a number of heroes - from Old Testament Abraham to the Apostle Paul - with Gilgamesh. Jensen's theories have been criticized by many Bible scholars and theologians .
Works
- Das Gilgamesch-Epos in der Weltliteratur. Band 1, Trübner, Straßburg 1906.
- Moses, Jesus, Paulus: drei Varianten des babylonischen Gottmenschen Gilgamesch. Eine Anklage wider die Theologen, ein Appell auch an die Laien. Neuer Frankfurter Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1909.
- Hat der Jesus der Evangelien wirklich gelebt? Eine Antwort an Prof. Dr. Jülicher. Neuer Frankfurter Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1910.
- Das Gilgamesch-Epos in der Weltliteratur. Band 2: Die israelitischen Gilgamesch-Sagen in den Sagen der Weltliteratur. Ebel, Marburg 1928.
Family
Son: (1901–1994) - German Anglist , professor at Heidelberg University and the University of Mainz .
Literature
- Heschel, Susannah . (2008). The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany. Princeton University Press. pp. 57-58.
- Carlquist, Gunnar , red (1933). Svensk uppslagsbok. Bd 14. Malmö: Svensk Uppslagsbok AB. sid. 403-04
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 Marburger Professorenkatalog - 2016.
- ↑ Frederick C. Prussner. Old Testament Theology: Its History and Development . - Westminster John Knox Press, 1985 .-- S. 150 .-- 308 p. - ISBN 9780804201469 .
- ↑ Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs. Traditional Cosmology (1); The Global Mythology of Cosmic Creation and Destruction; volume: Preliminaries; Formation (hardback) . - All-Round Publications, 2011 .-- S. 50 .-- 287 p. - ISBN 9780955665578 .
- ↑ Biografien (inaccessible link) . Hethitologie.de (September 12, 2011). Date of treatment May 25, 2018. Archived on September 12, 2011.
- ↑ The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature / Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond. - T. & T. Clark, 1891 .-- S. 135-139. - 494 p.
- ↑ Hermann Gunkel. Jensens Gilgamesch-Epos in der Weltliteratur (German) // Deutsche Literaturzeitung. - 1909. - Bd. 30 . - S. 901–911 .