Hugo Duensing

Hugo Berthold Heinrich Duensing (15 April 1877–28 November 1961) was a German scholar of early Christianity and a Lutheran pastor. He specialized in Eastern Christianity and oriental studies, including documents in Ethiopian; Syriac and Aramaic; and Arabic.

Biography Hugo Duensing was born in Hanover, then part of the German Empire, on 15 April 1877 to his parents Friedrich and Henriette. In Hanover, he attended the . In 1896, he attended the University of Greifswald, where he studied theology and the Arabic and Ethiopian languages. He traveled to Berlin and later to the Georg August University of Göttingen where he completed his studies under Julius Wellhausen. On August 6, 1906, he acquired a degree in theology from Göttingen. He was ordained a pastor in 1907, and served from 1907 to 1909 in Bad Rehburg; from 1909 to 1926 in -Wellersen; and from 1926 until his retirement in 1947 in Goslar at the Market Church St. Cosmas and Damian. In April 1909, he married Anna Schürer, the daughter of the famous historian Emil Schürer. The couple would have five children together: Friedrich, Ernst, Reinhard, Hildegard, and Gertrud. Duensing suffered from occasional spates of ill health and exhaustion, and committed himself to a sanitarium for rest in 1905, 1914, 1920, 1928, and 1936.

Selected works Liefert das äthiopische Synaxar Materialien zur Geschichte Abessiniens? Für den zweiten, die Monate Magābīt bis Pāguemēn enthaltenden Teil des Synaxars untersucht. Göttingen 1900. Christlich – palästinisch – aramäische Texte und Fragmente nebst einer Abhandlung über den Wert der palästinischen Septuaginta. Göttingen 1906. (Contained documents on the Codex Sinaiticus Rescriptus, among others) Epistula apostolorum. Nach dem äthiopischen und koptischen Texte. Bonn 1925. (On the Epistula Apostolorum) Zwei christlich-palästinisch-aramäische Fragmente aus der Apostelgeschichte, Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 37, 1938. (Contained documents on Codex Climaci Rescriptus, among others) Verzeichnis der Personen- und der geographischen Namen in der Mischna. Auf Grund der von Emil Schürer hinterlassenen einschlägigen Materialien. Stuttgart 1960. (A work on the Mishnah based on old papers from his father-in-law Emil Schürer)