Barbara Aland

Barbara Aland

Barbara Aland (1998)
Born (1937-04-12) 12 April 1937
Hamburg, Germany
Academic background
School or tradition New Testament textual criticism
Academic work
Discipline Biblical studies
Sub discipline New Testament studies
Main interests the text of the New Testament
Notable ideas Categories of New Testament manuscripts

Barbara Aland, née Ehlers (born 12 April 1937 in Hamburg, Germany) is a German theologian and was a Professor of New Testament Research and Church History at Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster until 2002.

Biography

Barbara and Kurt Aland (1988)

After having completed her degree of Theology and Classical Philology in Frankfurt, Marburg and Kiel she received the PhD (dissertation on the Socratic Aischines) in 1964 in Frankfurt/Germany. In 1969 she gained her licentiate at the "Oriental Faculty" of Pontificio Istituto Biblico in Rome, Italy. In 1972 she could habilitate in Göttingen about the Syrian gnostic Bardesanes of Edessa. Since 1972 she acted as private lecturer, later on she became professorship for "Church History and New Testament Research with eminently consideration of Christian Orient" at the Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät in Münster, Germany. 1983 she became director of the Institute for New Testament Textual Research (which was founded in 1959 by her husband Kurt Aland) and also the Bible Museum.

This institute achieved worldwide significance by publishing the "Nestle-Aland" - Novum Testamentum Graece and the UBS Greek New Testament. Until her retirement Barbara Aland was also the director of Hermann-Kunst-Stiftung for Promotion of New Testament Research. She is still constantly working academically, even in her retirement.

Relevance

Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland visiting Pope John Paul II (1984)

Barbara Aland firstly became international high profile due to the work on the Novum Testamentum Graece and the Greek New Testament which she attended together with her husband Kurt Aland. Both of them collaborated significantly with an international and interconfessional group of theologians on the approvement and updating of the "Nestle-Aland" - Novum Testamentum Graece and also "Greek New Testament". These editions (published by the Institute in Münster) form the basis of apprenticeship and research worldwide.

She published the first installments of the "Editio Critica Maior" in 1997. This edition was the first to be based on the complete tradition of Greek manuscripts, patristic citations, and ancient versions.[1]

In 1999 she was a founding member of the "Academia Platonica Septima Monasteriensis", which does not focus its attention primarily on the works of Plato, but rather on the writings of his early interpreters, from ancient times until the Renaissance. The Academy's goal is to promote the study of Platonist writings.[2]

Honors

German theologian Prof. Dr. Barbara Aland receives "Knight's Cross" of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, July 2011

Barbara Aland achieved the following honorary doctoral degrees:

She received following awards:

Works

Monographs

Editions of the New Testament

Publications

References

  1. ↑ [WestG] [AKT] Zum 70. Geburtstag von Barbara Aland
  2. ↑ Academia Platonica
  3. ↑ Was ist Gnosis? Studien zum frühen Christentum, zu Marcion und zur kaiserzeitlichen Philosophie / Barbara Aland,2009, footnote page 25
  4. ↑ MUZ - Münster Universität-Zeitung, Ausgabe 06/98 Archived 29 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Barbara Aland Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Mohr Siebeck
  6. ↑ "Barbara Aland" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  7. ↑ Bezirksregierung Arnsberg - Regierungspräsident zeichnet verdiente Bürgerinnen und Bürger aus
  8. ↑ http://www.britac.ac.uk/burkitt-medal-biblical-studies

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