Hans-Josef Klauck
{{Short description|German theologian (1946–2025)}}
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| name = Hans-Josef Klauck
| honorific_suffix = OFM
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| alt = Three-quarter profile colour Press shot of a clean-shaven, smiling, bespectacled man wearing academic robes and hat.
| caption = Klauck in 2011
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|6|4|df=y}}
| birth_place = Hermeskeil, Germany
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|3|27|1946|6|4|df=y}}
| death_place = Munich, Bavaria, Germany
| education = Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
| title = Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christian Literature
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| thesis_year = 1977
| doctoral_advisor = Joachim Gnilka
| discipline = {{ubl| Theology | New Testament }}
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| workplaces = University of Chicago Divinity School
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Hans-Josef Klauck OFM (4 June 1946 – 27 March 2025) was a German theologian, Franciscan priest, and historian. After teaching New Testament as professor at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg and Munich, he was Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School from 2001 to 2016.
Life and career
Klauck was born in Hermeskeil on 4 June 1946. The first child of his mother, Anna-Maria Meier, he grew up with two younger half-brothers. He attended the boarding school of the Franciscan Cologne region in Exaten near Roermond from 1960 where he achieved the Abitur in 1966. He then joined the Franciscan {{ill|Rietberg Abbey|de|Franziskanerkloster Rietberg}} on 21 April 1966. He made his vows on 5 October 1970. Klauck studied philosophy and theology in Münster and Bonn. He was ordained a priest on 15 July 1972 by Bishop {{ill|Heinrich Tenhumberg|de}} in Münster.
Klauck worked in the {{ill|St. Pankratius, Buldern|de|St. Pankratius (Buldern)|lt=St. Pankratius}} parish in Buldern and studied further in Münster, focused on Bible and Jewish studies. He worked as an assistant to Joachim Gnilka at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and achieved the doctorate of theology in 1977; his dissertation was titled "Allegorie und Allegorese in synoptischen Gleichnistexten". He was habilitated in 1980, writing about "Herrenmahl und hellenistischer Kult. Eine religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zum ersten Korintherbrief".
Klauck was appointed professor in Bonn in 1981. He received an offer from the University of Würzburg the following year to succeed Rudolf Schnackenburg. In 1994 he lectured in South Africa for several weeks. He served as dean of the faculty in Würzburg from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, he moved to the faculty of Catholic theology in Munich, succeeding his former teacher Gnilka.
Klauck received an offer to teach New Testament at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2001, a private institution independent of denominations and churches. Klauck was president of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas in 2003/04. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich in 2008, for his studies of Early Christianity. He retired from the Divinity School in Summer 2016 as emeritus.
Klauck returned to Germany in 2022 and settled in a convent in Munich.
Research
Hans-Josef Klauck was a prolific New Testament scholar of his time who worked on topics such as the parables of Jesus, Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians, and the Johannine epistles. He also focused on the social and religious history of the Greco-Roman world for context. He explored the apocrypha of the New Testament, writing introductions in several languages, and collected essays and articles in monographies.
Klauck was the editor of Herders Biblische Studien{{cite book | last1=Klauck | first1=Hans-Josef | last2=Zenger | first2=Erich | title=Herders biblische Studien |trans-title=Herder's biblical studies | publisher=Herder | publication-place=Freiburg i. Br | year=1994 | oclc=611786384 | language=de | page=}} and Stuttgarter Biblische Studien;{{cite book | last=Klauck | first=Hans-Josef | title=Magie und Heidentum in der Apostelgeschichte des Lukas | publisher=Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk | publication-place=Stuttgart | year=1996 | isbn=978-3-460-04671-9 | oclc=35597846 | language=de | page=}} coeditor of Hermeneia, Evangelische-Katholische Kommentar zum Neuen Testament{{cite web | title=Hans-Josef Klauck | website=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage | url=https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/AuthorProfile/index/id/4555/name/Hans-Josef+Klauck | language=de | access-date=1 April 2025}} and Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament;{{cite book | title=Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament | publisher=Mohr | publication-place=Tübingen | year=1976 | issn=0512-1604 | oclc=229949762 | page=}} New Testament area editor for the new edition of Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart;{{cite web | title=Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart | website=Mohr Siebeck | date=3 January 2008 | url=https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/mehrbaendiges-werk/religion-in-geschichte-und-gegenwart-250400000/edition/ | language=de | access-date=1 April 2025}} and the main New Testament editor of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.{{cite book | last=Klauck | first=Hans-Josef | title=Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception: Aaron-Aniconism | publisher=De Gruyter | publication-place=Berlin | date=2009 | isbn=978-3-11-018355-9 | page=}}
= Books =
Klauck authored over thirty books and over 250 articles. His books, several of them in English, include:
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klauck |author1-first=Hans-Josef |title=The Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide to Graeco-Roman Religions |series=Studies of the New Testament and its World |location=Edinburgh |publisher=T & T Clark |date=2000 |isbn=978-0-567-08693-8 |oclc=59430516}}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klauck |author1-first=Hans-Josef |author1-mask=3 |title=Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity: The World of the Acts of the Apostles |location=Edinburgh, Scotland |publisher=T & T Clark |date=2000 |isbn=978-0-567-08749-2 |oclc=44737102}}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klauck |author1-first=Hans-Josef |author1-mask=3 |title=Dion von Prusa: Olympische Rede oder über die erste Erkenntnis Gottes |date=2000 |isbn=9783534149476 |oclc=45541463 |location=Darmstadt |publisher=Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft}}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klauck |author1-first=Hans-Josef |author1-mask=3 |title=Apokryphe Evangelien: Eine Einführung |location=Stuttgart |publisher=Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk |date=2002 |isbn=978-3-460-33022-1 |oclc=50994826}}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klauck |author1-first=Hans-Josef |author1-mask=3 |title=Anknüpfung und Widerspruch. Das frühe Christentum in der multireligiösen Welt der Antike |date=2002 |isbn=9783926512994 |oclc=52299722 |location=Munich |publisher=Katholische Akademie in Bayern}}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klauck |author1-first=Hans-Josef |author1-mask=3 |title=Religion und Gesellschaft im frühen Christentum. Neutestamentliche Studien |series=Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament |volume=152 |location=Tübingen |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |date=2003 |isbn=978-3-16-147899-4 |oclc=51770649 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klauck |author1-first=Hans-Josef |author1-mask=3 |title=Apocryphal gospels : an introduction |location=New York |publisher=T & T Clark International |date=2003 |isbn=978-0-567-08390-6 |oclc=727069158 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klauck |author1-first=Hans-Josef |author1-mask=3 |title=Ancient Letter Writing and the New Testament: A Guide to Context and Exegesis |location=Waco, TX |publisher=Baylor University Press |date=2006 |isbn=978-1-4294-1839-3 |oclc=77011211 }}
- {{cite book|author1-last=Klauck |author1-first=Hans-Josef |author1-mask=3 |title=Die apokryphe Bibel. Ein anderer Zugang zum frühen Christentum |series=Tria corda |volume=4 |location=Tübingen |publisher=Mohr Siebeck |date=2008 |isbn=978-3-16-149686-8 |oclc=939245533 }}
References
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| url = https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/hans-josef-klauck
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| archive-date = 22 March 2005
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| url = https://franziskaner.net/pater-dr-hans-josef-klauck-verstorben/
| title = Pater Dr. Hans-Josef Klauck verstorben
| website = franziskaner.net
| date = 28 March 2025
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| access-date = 30 March 2025
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| title = SNTS General Meetings and Presidents
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| last = Remenyi
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| url = https://www.theologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/meldungen/single/news/zum-tod-von-prof-dr-dr-hc-hans-josef-klauck/
| title = Die Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg trauert um Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Josef Klauck OFM / geboren am 4. Juni 1946 / gestorben am 27. März 2025
| website = University of Würzburg
| date = 31 March 2025
| language = de
| access-date = 1 April 2025
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| url = http://www.mediadesk.uzh.ch/mitteilung.php?text_id=291&grp=aktuell
| title = Universität Zürich Medienmitteilung / 175. Dies academicus der Universität Zürich
| work = University of Zurich
| date = 26 April 2008
| language = de
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080511014629/http://www.mediadesk.uzh.ch/mitteilung.php?text_id=291&grp=aktuell
| archive-date = 11 May 2008
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External links
- {{Cite web |title=Preliminary Inventory to the Hans-Josef Klauck Papers 1977–2005 |url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.KLAUCKH |publisher=The University of Chicago Library |access-date=1 April 2025}}
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