Carsten L. Wilke

Carsten Lorenz Wilke (born September 8, 1962 in Cologne ) is a German religious scholar and historian .

He studied Jewish Studies , Romance Studies and Philosophy in Cologne and Jerusalem as well as Religious Studies in Paris. He received his doctorate “summa cum laude” in 1994 with a study on “Jewish-Christian double life in the baroque” and received the religious studies diploma from the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He then worked as a research assistant at the Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, from 1995 at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg and from 1997 at the Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg . From 1999 he was a research fellow at the University of Bonn , from 2000 the Fundação para a Ciência ea Tecnologia in Lisbon and from 2002 the Comunidad Ashkenazí in Mexico City.

In 2005/2006 Wilke was a deputy professor for the history of the Jewish people at the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg and since 2006 research assistant at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute . At the same time, he was a deputy professor from 2006 to 2008, then a lecturer in Jewish studies at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf , in the summer semester 2008 guest lecturer at the chair "Identités juives" at the Université libre de Bruxelles and then a fellow at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Since 2009 he has been Associate Professor of Jewish Culture and Thought at the Central European University in Budapest.

The focus of his work is the history and culture of European Judaism from the Middle Ages through emancipation to modern times. Wilke is the editor of the first part of the two-volume biographical handbook of the rabbis and editor of the moral doctrine of Judaism by Elias Grünebaum .

Publications (selection)

• Jewish-Christian double life in the Baroque era: On the biography of the merchant and poet Antonio Enríquez Gómez. Zugl. Diss. Univ. Cologne 1994. Judaism and Environment Vol. 56, Lang, Frankfurt a. a. 1994, ISBN 978-3-631-47905-6
• The Talmud and the Kant: Rabbi Training on the Threshold of Modernity. Netiva Vol. 4, Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2003, ISBN 978-3-487-11950-2
• The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. Biographical Handbook of Rabbis Part 1, Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-24871-9
• Histoire des juifs portugais. Chandeigne, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-915540-10-9
• Farewell to Shulamit: spatial and social diversity in the song of songs . Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017 ISBN 978-3-11-050088-2

editor

• Elias Grünebaum : The moral doctrine of Judaism in relation to other creeds. In addition to the historical evidence of the origin and importance of Pharisaism and its relationship to the founder of the Christian religion. Edition of the editions from 1867 and 1878. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20316-0
• with Tamás Turán: Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary: The 'Science of Judaism' between East and West . Munich: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2016 ISBN 9783110330731

Web links

• Carsten L. Wilke , Central European University

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Carsten L. Wilke , Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute
2. ^ ^{A b} Carsten L. Wilke , Central European University