Rüdiger Bartelmus (born 8 January 1944,

Aš Aš (; ) is a town in Cheb District in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 13,000 inhabitants. Administrative division Aš consists of nine municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Aš (11, ...

Reichsgau Sudetenland The Reichsgau Sudetenland was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945. It comprised the northern part of the ''Sudetenland'' territory, which was annexed from Czechoslovakia according to the 30 September 1938 Munich Agreement. ...

) is a Czech-born

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

theologian and a professor at the Institute of

Old Testament The Old Testament (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 and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...

Studies and Biblical Archaeology of the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

Life

Bartelmus studied in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

Erlangen Erlangen (; , ) is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative district Erlangen), and with 119,810 inhabitants (as of 30 September 2024), it is the smalle ...

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; ; ) is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fifth-largest city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, and with a population of about 163,000, of which roughly a quarter consists of studen ...

, and

Zürich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

in Protestant and Catholic theology and philosophy. In 1969 he passed the First Theological Exam and so passed the entrance examination in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. From 1969 to 1974, he worked as a religion teacher at various schools in Munich. Only a year later, he was inducted into the countries' Council of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. He is a

parson A parson is an ordained Christian person responsible for a small area, typically a parish. The term was formerly often used for some Anglican clergy and, more rarely, for ordained ministers in some other churches. It is no longer a formal term d ...

under the

Landeskirche In Germany and Switzerland, a Landeskirche (; plural: Landeskirchen, ) is the church of a region. The term usually refers to Protestant churches, but—in case of Switzerland—also Roman Catholic dioceses. They originated as the national churches ...

of the

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria () is a Lutheran member church of the Protestant Church in Germany in the German state of Bavaria. The seat of the church is in Munich. The '' Landesbischof'' (bishop) of the church is Heinrich Bedford ...

. From 1974 to 1976, Bartelmus worked as an editor of Hebrew at the Protestant Theological. He was part of Faculty at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich, LMU or LMU Munich; ) is a public university, public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of Ingolstadt in 1472 by Duke ...

in 1976 with a doctorate and, with Professor , a doctorate in theology. From 1977 to 1993, he was a Senior Researcher for Languages of the Old Testament at the Protestant Theological. In addition, he supervised the Old Testament training of student teachers without classical language skills at the same place. In 1982, he received his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

to Dr. theol. habil., the teaching qualification for the subject "Old Testament". From 1982 to 1989 he worked as a lecturer. From 1993 to 1995, he taught at the same place as professor of Old Testament and Biblical Oriental languages. In 1995 he was appointed as the professor of the Old Testament at the Theological Faculty of the

. In addition to his theological work, Bartelmus is a qualified high-tour guide of the

German Alpine Club The German Alpine Club (, DAV for short) is the world's largest climbing association and the eighth-largest sporting association in Germany. It is a member of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and the competent body for sport and competiti ...

. For many years, he was a mountain guides for a mountaineering school. He is married and is the father of six children.

External links

Page at the University of Kiel
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bartelmus, Rudiger 1944 births Living people People from Aš People from Sudetenland Sudeten German people 20th-century German Protestant theologians Academic staff of the University of Kiel