Alexander Zerfass

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Alexander Zerfaß (born February 25, 1978 in Simmern / Hunsrück ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and professor of liturgical science .

Life

From 1997 to 2004 he studied Catholic theology, Latin and Greek philology , ancient history and philosophy at the University of Mainz . From 2003 to 2005 he was a member of the Graduate School Spiritual Song and Hymn interdisciplinary ( German Research Foundation ) in Mainz . After receiving his doctorate in 2007 as Dr. theol. through the Catholic Theological Faculty of the JGU Mainz (PhD supervisor: Hansjakob Becker ) he was research assistant in the project Documents for the Renewal of the Liturgy ( Swiss National Fund ) at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) (head: Martin Klöckener ) from 2007 to 2008 . After the habilitation and award of the venia legendi for liturgical science and homiletics in 2015 by the Catholic-Theological Faculty of JGU Mainz with the habilitation thesis: On the way to Emmaus. He teaches the hermeneutics of reading scriptures in the liturgical service of the mass as a university professor for liturgical science and sacramental theology at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Salzburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Mystery mirabile. Poetry, theology and liturgy in the hymns of Ambrose of Milan for the Christ feasts of the church year (= Pietas Liturgica. Studia . Volume 19). Francke Verlag, Tübingen / Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8271-9 (also dissertation, Mainz 2007).
  • The Grandmont Antiphonary. An example of hermit reform liturgies in the 11th / 12th centuries. Century (= Spicilegii Friburgensis Subsidia . Volume 23). Academic Press Friborg, Friborg 2011, ISBN 978-3-7278-1705-2 .
  • with Hansjakob Becker and Ansgar Franz : Bruno of Cologne and the liturgy of the Charterhouse. Reconstruction of the Antiphonale Sancti Brunonis and reproduction of the oldest Cartusian office manuscripts (= Analecta Cartusiana . Volume 292). FB English and American Studies, Univ. Salzburg, Salzburg 2015, ISBN 3-902895-34-9 .
  • On the way to Emmaus. The hermeneutics of the reading of scriptures in the liturgy of the Mass (= Pietas Liturgica. Studia . Volume 24). Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 3-7720-8581-4 (also habilitation thesis, Mainz 2015).
  • as editor with Ansgar Franz: Word of the living God. Liturgy and Bible (= Pietas Liturgica . Volume 16). Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2016, ISBN 3-7720-8497-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Zerfaß, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zerfass, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Simmern / Hunsrück