Dieter Vieweger
German archaeologist
Dieter Vieweger (born 8 May 1958) is a German archaeologist (prehistory and early history) and Evangelical Lutheran theologian (Old Testament scholar) who has taught at universities in Wuppertal, Münster, Witten-Herdecke and Jerusalem. He is the director of research institutes in Jerusalem and Amman, as well as in Wuppertal.
Vita
Education
Dieter Vieweger was expelled from school (EOS Theodor Neubauer, Karl-Marx-Stadt) in 1974 for political reasons. He then attended a non-state-recognised educational institution of the Protestant Church in Saxony (Proseminar Moritzburg) where he passed his Reifeprüfung in 1976. Since he was not entitled to attend a university, he studied at the Theological Seminary from 1976 to 1981.
After the first theological examination in 1981, he completed the Vicariate (Protestant) and the catechetical training at the Saxon Regional Church from 1981 to 1982. From 1982 to 1986 he worked as a research assistant at the Theological Seminary Leipzig. In 1986 he was awarded a doctorate based on his thesis The Specificity of the Vocation Narratives of Jeremiah and Ezekiel in the Context of Similar Units of the Old Testament PhD which was supervised by Siegfried Wagner and Wolfram Herrmann from the Karl Marx University Leipzig.
Rectory and theological teaching
From 1986 to 1989 Dieter Vieweger was the pastor of the Thomanerchor Leipzig. In 1987 he was ordained at St Thomas' Church in Leipzig.
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