Adrian Holderegger

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Adrian Holderegger OFMCap (born July 1, 1945 in Appenzell ) is a Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and ethicist . He is a professor at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) .

Life

Adrian Holderegger studied Roman Catholic theology, philosophy and psychology in Freiburg i. Ue., Basel and Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1977. He is a member of the Capuchin Order . After his habilitation in moral theology in 1979/80, he worked as a visiting professor for theological ethics with special emphasis on the social sciences at the University of Tübingen . Since 1981 he has been professor of theological ethics at the University of Freiburg. In the course of his academic career he made various research stays abroad with corresponding teaching assignments, for example at the Kennedy Institute at Georgetown University in 1989 , at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 , at the Sorbonne in Paris in 2000 and at McGill University in Montreal in 2008 .

Holderegger is editor of the series Studies on Theological Ethics . He is also a member of the ethics committee for biomedical research projects from the canton of Friborg and Ambassador for Peace at the UN (Ecosoc). He is a member of the International Society for Moral Theology and Social Ethics and the Societas Ethica , the European Research Society for Ethics. He is also a board member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . His research focus is biomedical ethics. He wrote u. a. various publications on suicide.

Publications

  • (Ed., Together with Beat Sitter-Liver, Christian W. Hess, Günter Rager) Brain research and image of man. Contributions to interdisciplinary understanding. Academic Press / Schwabe, Freiburg i. Üe. / Basel 2007.
  • Le Suicide. Le conflit entre la vie et la mort. Editions du Cerf, Paris 2005.
  • (Ed.) Communication and media ethics. Interdisciplinary Perspectives 3rd, extended edition. Academic Press / Herder, Freiburg i. Ue./Freiburg i. Br. 2004 ( Studies on Theological Ethics. Vol. 84).

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Nicolas Michel (ed.): Rerum Novarum 1891-1991. Cent ans d'enseignement social chrétien / Hundred years of Christian social teaching . University of Freiburg (Switzerland), Friborg 1991, p. 80.
personal data
SURNAME Holderegger, Adrian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theology and ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Appenzell