About Hans-Josef Klauck
Lived 1946 – 2025 (aged 78). Hans-Josef Klauck was a German theologian, historian, university teacher, catholic theologian, catholic priest and biblical scholar.
Hans-Josef Klauck OFM (4 June 1946 – 27 March 2025) was a German theologian, Franciscan priest, and historian. After teaching New Testament as professor at the University of Bonn, the University of Würzburg and LMU Munich, he was Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christian Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School from 2001 to 2016.
Life and career Klauck was born in Hermeskeil on 4 June 1946. and Stuttgarter Biblische Studien; coeditor of Hermeneia, Evangelische-Katholische Kommentar zum Neuen Testament and Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament; New Testament area editor for the new edition of Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart; and the main New Testament editor of the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception.
Books Klauck authored over thirty books and over 250 articles. His books, several of them in English, include:
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German theologian (1946–2025)
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Hans-Josef Klauck was born on 4 June 1946 in Hermeskeil.
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Hans-Josef Klauck died on 27 March 2025 in Munich.
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Hans-Josef Klauck was a theologian, historian, university teacher, catholic theologian, catholic priest and biblical scholar.
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Hans-Josef Klauck was German.
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