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September 1888 A.D. Gerhard Kittel Born—German Protestant Theologian & Anti-Semite.
Gerhard Kittel (September 23, 1888, Breslau – July 11, 1948, Tübingen) was a German Protestant theologian, lexicographer of biblical languages,
and open anti-Semite.[1] He is best known
in academic circles for his Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament
(Theological Dictionary of the New Testament).
The son of acclaimed Old
Testament scholar Rudolf
Kittel, he married Hanna Untermeier in 1914, but there were no
children from the union. In May 1933 he joined the National
Socialist German Workers Party. A Professor of
Evangelical Theology and New
Testament at the University of
Tübingen, he published "scientific" studies depicting the Jewish people as the historical enemy of
Germany, Christianity, and European
culture in general.
In 1945, after Hitler's Third Reich
capitulated to the Allies, Kittel was arrested by the French occupying forces,
removed from office and interned at Balingen. William F. Albright wrote the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg in early 1946,
"In view of the terrible viciousness of his attacks on Judaism and the
Jews, which continues at least until 1943, Gerhard Kittel must bear the guilt
of having contributed more, perhaps, than any other Christian theologian to the
mass murder of Jews by Nazis." Nonetheless, in 1946 Kittel was released
pending his trial. He was forbidden to enter Tübingen until 1948, however. From
1946 to 1948 he was a Seelsorger (soul carer) in Beuron. In 1948 he was
allowed back into Tübingen, but died that year before the criminal proceedings
against him could be resumed.
Literary works
- Die Oden Salomos überarbeitet oder einheitlich, 1914
- Jesus und die Rabbinen, 1914
- Die Probleme des palästinensischen Spätjudentums und das Urchristentum, 1926
- Urchristentum, Spätjudentum, Hellenismus, 1926
- Die Religionsgeschichte und das Urchristentum, 1932
- Founder and co-editor of the "Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament", 5 vols., 1933-1979
- Ein theologischer Briefwechsel mit Karl Barth, 1934
- Christus und Imperator, 1939
References
External links
- Christof Dahm (1992). "Kittel, Gerhard". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 3. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 1544–1546. ISBN 3-88309-035-2.
- Gerhard Kittel by Textus Receptus
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