Joachim Jeremias, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joachim Jeremias

German theologian

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1900

Place of Birth: Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Sep-1979

Profession: theologian, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Joachim Jeremias (20 September 1900 – 6 September 1979) was a German Lutheran theologian, scholar of Near Eastern Studies and university professor for New Testament studies.
He was abbot of Bursfelde, 1968–1971. He was born in Dresden and spent his formative years in Jerusalem, where between 1910 and 1918 his father, Friedrich Jeremias (1868–1945), worked as Provost of the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer.
He studied Lutheran theology and Oriental languages at the universities of Tübingen and Leipzig.
In Leipzig he obtained both a "Doctor philosophiae (Dr.phil.)" (1922) and a "Doctor theologiae (Dr.theol.)" (1923) degree (PhD and ThD in English), followed by his Habilitation (1925).
His mentor was the renowned Gustaf Dalman. After other teaching assignments, Jeremias was appointed in 1935 to the chair of New Testament studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, where he taught until his retirement in 1968.
In 1976, Jeremias moved from Göttingen to Tübingen, where he died in 1979.