Günther Bornkamm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Günther Bornkamm

German theologian

Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1905

Place of Birth: Görlitz, Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 18-Feb-1990

Profession: theologian, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Günther Bornkamm (8 October 1905 – 18 February 1990) was a German New Testament scholar belonging to the school of Rudolf Bultmann and a Professor of New Testament at the University of Heidelberg.
Under Adolf Hitler, he opposed the nazification of the Protestant churches and their unification into the movement of the 'German Christians'.
His post-war fame as a scholar rested on his effort to separate fiction from facts in his reconstruction of Jesus' life and in his subsequent treatment of the gospel of Matthew.
His brother was the ecclesiastical historian and Luther scholar Heinrich Bornkamm.