Ferdinand Hahn

Ferdinand Hahn (1926-2015) was a stalwart of late-twentieth-century German biblical study. A student of Ernst Kasemann and Gunther Bornkamm, after a period in church ministry he received a post as a research assistant to Professor Bornkamm in the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg in 1956. He subsequently held chairs at Goettingen, Kiel, Mainz and Munich, and in later years was a lecturer at the Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church of the Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu,...See more

Ferdinand Hahn (1926-2015) was a stalwart of late-twentieth-century German biblical study. A student of Ernst Kasemann and Gunther Bornkamm, after a period in church ministry he received a post as a research assistant to Professor Bornkamm in the Theological Faculty of the University of Heidelberg in 1956. He subsequently held chairs at Goettingen, Kiel, Mainz and Munich, and in later years was a lecturer at the Theological Institute of the Lutheran Church of the Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Romania. See less