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Oct 08, 1905 Görlitz, Saxony, Germany Died on 18 Feb 1990 (aged 84)
German theologian
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About Günther Bornkamm
- 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.
