Werner Georg Kümmel (
Heidelberg
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16 May 1905 -
Mainz
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9 July 1995) was a
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New Testament
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scholar and professor at the
University of Marburg
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[* Otto Böcher: ''Zum Gedenken an Werner Georg Kümmel''. In: ''Theologische Literaturzeitung (ThLZ)'' 120, 1995, , Sp. 945]
Biography
Kümmel was the son of the Heidelberg doctor Werner Kümmel and his first wife Marie (a daughter of the historian Heinrich Ulmann). He was a grandson of the civil engineer Werner Kümmel and a nephew of the art historian
Otto Kümmel, as well as a great-grandson of the physician
Jacob Henle
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (; 9 July 1809 – 13 May 1885) was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument f ...
through his mother.
From 1923 to 1928 he studied Protestant theology in Heidelberg, Berlin and Marburg, graduating in Heidelberg. He wrote his dissertation on Romans 7 in 1928, under the supervision of
Martin Dibelius. He then worked at universities in England, followed by Marburg (1930–1932), where he was assistant to
Hans von Soden, Zurich (1932–1950), Mainz (1951/1952) and Marburg again (1952–1973). At Marburg he succeeded
Rudolf Bultmann
Rudolf Karl Bultmann (; ; 20 August 1884 – 30 July 1976) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of the New Testament at the University of Marburg. He was one of the major figures of early 20th-century biblical studies. A prominent c ...
, and worked until his retirement in 1973 as a New Testament scholar.
Kümmel undertook the editing of Jewish writings from Hellenistic-Roman times. His ''Einleitung in das Neue Testament'' (Introduction to the New Testament) was influential, and competed with the conservatism of Wilhelm Michaelis and the Catholic perspective of Alfred Wikenhauser in their works of the same title.
The Bonn New Testament scholar
Erich Gräßer was a student of Kümmel's.
Works
Thesis
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Books
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References
1905 births
1995 deaths
New Testament scholars
Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
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