Burkhard Gladigow

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Burkhard Gladigow (born November 8, 1939 in Berlin ) is a German religious scholar . He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tübingen.

Life

Gladigow was born as the son of the high school principal Ludwig Wilhelm Gladigow. After graduating from high school in 1957 at the Gray Monastery in Berlin, he studied classical philology , philosophy and religious studies at the Free University of Berlin . At the University of Tübingen he received his doctorate in 1962 under Hildebrecht Hommel with investigations into the early history of Sophos and Sophiē for Dr. phil. In 1970 he completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen. He later became professor for general religious studies and classical philology at the University of Tübingen. In an essay in 1988, he called for religious studies to leave the category of the saint . Jörg Rüpke and Vasilios N. Makrides are among his students .

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. Hartmut Zinser : Religious Studies: An Introduction. Reimer, Berlin 1988, ISBN 978-3-496-00935-1 , pp. 6-37.

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