{"id":3780,"date":"2023-08-24T10:06:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T08:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/?page_id=3780"},"modified":"2023-09-13T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:46:20","slug":"gunter-luling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/staff\/gunter-luling\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00fcnter L\u00fcling"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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* Varna (Bulgaria), 1928
\u2020 Erlangen (Germany), 1914
Lived in: Erlangen

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Dr.Dr. G\u00fcnter L\u00fcling was born as the youngest son (he had four siblings) of a protestant missionary in Bulgaria. The family returned to Germany in 1936; during 1942\/43, G\u00fcnter, then 14 years old, faced a trial for his refusal to lead a Hitlerjugend group, which ended with a mild sentence. From January 1944 until the end of the World War II, L\u00fcling served as soldier and was made prisoner, but luckily escaped. He underwent training as a bricklayer in Western Germany until 1947; in 1949 he was able to finish secondary school and from 1950 onwards studied Protestant Theology besides Latin, Greek and German Philology; in order to specialize on the Old Testament, he learnt Arabic and Aramaic as well. He reached his Theology degree in G\u00f6ttingen in 1954 with an excellent result.<\/div>\r\n
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As L\u00fcling had made already public his criticism of Trinity, following A. Schweitzer and Martin Werner, he had little chances to choose a job inside the Church or to achieve a higher degree in Theology. Therefore he studied once more, this time Political Sciences together with Sociology and Islam, and took his degree in 1957. Once more, ideological reasons obstructed his career. In 1960 he married Hannelore, who accompanied him henceforth as a wholehearted co-worker.<\/div>\r\n
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From 1962 to 1965, L\u00fcling worked as director of the Goethe-Institut in Aleppo (Syria). It was there where he learned the modern Arabic language, a knowledge that was later important for his studies of the Primitive Koran. Later he worked at the University of Erlangen in Germany and finally offered a thesis about the interpretation of certain suras of the Koran as ancient Christian songs. Although this research was granted the highest possible qualification, he was dismissed from University in 1972. An extended version, offered for dissertation, was refused in 1974 and L\u00fcling published it as a book by his own means. After six years of trial, his dismissal from University was confirmed by the Court, in spite of the positive views of foreign scientists.<\/div>\r\n
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L\u00fcling worked throughout the next 13 years with a very limited income and retired in 1991. His book about the Primitive Koran was never accepted for printing in Germany. Finally he managed to publish an English version in India in 2003, but although his work has been discussed in other countries, during decades nobody dared to take a public position on this subject nor tried to refute in a scientific way L\u00fclings views that “essential parts of the Koran are much older than the Prophet”. Since 1982, L\u00fcling has returned to subjects related to the Old Testament and the Ancient History. Until his death he was writing an “Ancient History of the Hebrews” which he announced to be “liberal-theological” and “critical” and as laying the ground for a long-term conciliation of Jews, Christians and Muslims. Some parts of this extense work have already been published in small newsletters.<\/div>\r\n
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L\u00fcling died on September 10th, 2014.<\/div>\r\n
(See his Obituary<\/strong> here<\/a>)<\/div>\r\n
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Books<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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  • 1974:\u00a0\u00dcber den Ur-Qur’an.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(self-published. 2. ed. 1993. Erlangen).
    Translated into English as: “A Challenge to Islam for Reformation<\/em>“, 2003: Motilal Banarsidas Publ., Delhi, India.<\/li>\r\n
  • 1981:\u00a0Die Wiederentdeckung des Propheten Mohammed<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\r\n
  • 1982:\u00a0Das Passahlamm und die Altarabische Mutter der Blutrache, die Hy\u00e4ne.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>[ZRGG 34 130-147.]<\/li>\r\n
  • 1984:\u00a0Archaische W\u00f6rter und Sachen im Wallfahrtswesen am Zionsberg.<\/strong><\/em>[Dielheimer Bl\u00e4tter z. AT (DBAT) 20 (1984), 52-59]1982<\/li>\r\n
  • 1985:\u00a0Sprache und archaisches Denken.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Erlangen)<\/li>\r\n
  • 1992:\u00a0Der christliche Kult an der vorislamischen Kaaba<\/strong><\/em>((Erlangen)<\/li>\r\n
  • 1995:\u00a0Semitisch “Repha’im” und “Teraph\u00eem” sowie griechisch “Orpheus”<\/strong>\u00a0Zeitenspr\u00fcnge<\/em>\u00a01-95, 31-35. (Gr\u00e4felfing)<\/li>\r\n
  • 1995:\u00a0Europ\u00e4ische Investitur und archaisches semitisches Maskenwesen<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Zeitenspr\u00fcnge<\/em>\u00a04-95, 432-449 (Gr\u00e4felfing)<\/li>\r\n
  • 1999:\u00a0Das Blutrecht (die Blutrache) der archaisch-mythischen Stammesgesellschaft.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0Zum schriftkulturellen Staatsrecht\u00a0Zeitenspr\u00fcnge<\/em>\u00a02-99, 217-227 (Gr\u00e4felfing)<\/li>\r\n
  • 2000:\u00a0Das Problem Hebr\u00e4er<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Zeitenspr\u00fcnge<\/em> 2-00, 180-193. (Gr\u00e4felfing)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    Books 1974:\u00a0\u00dcber den Ur-Qur’an.\u00a0(self-published. 2. ed. 1993. Erlangen). Translated into English as: “A Challenge to Islam for Reformation“, 2003: Motilal Banarsidas Publ., Delhi, India. 1981:\u00a0Die Wiederentdeckung des Propheten Mohammed 1982:\u00a0Das Passahlamm und die Altarabische Mutter der Blutrache, die Hy\u00e4ne.\u00a0[ZRGG 34 130-147.] 1984:\u00a0Archaische W\u00f6rter und Sachen im Wallfahrtswesen am Zionsberg.[Dielheimer Bl\u00e4tter z. AT (DBAT) 20 (1984), 52-59]1982 1985:\u00a0Sprache und archaisches Denken.\u00a0(Erlangen) 1992:\u00a0Der christliche Kult an der vorislamischen Kaaba((Erlangen) 1995:\u00a0Semitisch “Repha’im” und “Teraph\u00eem” sowie griechisch “Orpheus”\u00a0Zeitenspr\u00fcnge\u00a01-95, 31-35. (Gr\u00e4felfing) 1995:\u00a0Europ\u00e4ische Investitur und archaisches semitisches Maskenwesen\u00a0Zeitenspr\u00fcnge\u00a04-95, 432-449 (Gr\u00e4felfing) 1999:\u00a0Das Blutrecht (die Blutrache) der archaisch-mythischen Stammesgesellschaft.\u00a0Zum schriftkulturellen Staatsrecht\u00a0Zeitenspr\u00fcnge\u00a02-99, 217-227 (Gr\u00e4felfing) 2000:\u00a0Das Problem Hebr\u00e4er\u00a0Zeitenspr\u00fcnge 2-00, 180-193. (Gr\u00e4felfing)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3756,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3780","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3837,"href":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3780\/revisions\/3837"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronologiekritik.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}