Friedrich Diedrich (5 October 1935 – 7 October 2015) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and

Old Testament The Old Testament (often abbreviated OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew writings by the Israelites. The ...

scholar. He lived in Buer.

Life

Born in

Hannover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German States of Germany, state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the List of cities in Germany by population, 13th-largest city in Germa ...

in 1935, Diedrich obtained priesthood on 26 July 1962. He studied philosophy and Catholic theology in

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and

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. From 1972 to 2015, he was the assistant to Lothar Ruppert at the

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, he earned a doctorate in the Old Testament. In the same compartment habilitation he in 1985 and was a lecturer at the

University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public university, public research university located in Freiburg im Breisg ...

. He had, until 1985, the Acting Chair, and then the full professorship for "Biblical Theology - Old Testament" at the

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. From 1 May 1988 to his death, he was the professor of Old Testament Studies at the Theological Faculty of the

Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt The Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is a Roman Catholic research university in Eichstätt and Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. Compared to other German universities it is a rather small institution with 4,800 students in 2019; n ...

. Diedrich, from 1993 to 1995 and from 1997 to 1999, was the dean of the Faculty of Theology. On 1 April 2001 he was given emeritus status. Diedrich was a member of the KDSt.V. Guestfalo-Silesia Paderborn in CV, and later the AV Austria Innsbruck (1958), the KDStV Ripuaria Bonn (1967), the AV Silesia Bochum (1969) and the KDStV Alcimonia Eichstätt (1990) and the Student Connection Assindia to Essen. In 1969, he was a founding member of the AV Rupert Mayer at the

Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology (German: ''Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen'') is a higher education Jesuit college in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The school offers a 10-semester Magister in Catholic Th ...

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. He from, 1995 to 2005, was at the CV-pastoral office and longtime President of the Academia editorial board.

References

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