Christine Christ-von Wedel

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Christine Christ-von Wedel (* 1948 in Reinbek as Christine von Wedel ) is a German-Swiss historian .

Life

Christ graduated from high school in 1967 and studied history , philosophy and church history from 1968 to 1971 at the Philosophical and Theological Faculties of the University of Basel, as well as singing at the Basel Music Academy . In 1979, she was with a thesis on Erasmus of Rotterdam doctorate . In 1999 she accepted a teaching position at the theological faculty of the University of Zurich . From 2012 to 2015 she was president of the board of mission 21 . In 2015 she received the Science Prize of the City of Basel.

Her main research interests are humanism and the Reformation .

Christine Christ-von Wedel is married to the pastor Hieronymus Christ.

Fonts (selection)

As an author:

  • Not knowing about Erasmus from Rotterdam. For philosophical and theological knowledge in the spiritual development of a Christian humanist (= Basel contributions to historical science. Vol. 142). Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1981 (dissertation).
  • "You lead my mind wide". Small contributions to western intellectual history. Helbing and Lichtenhahn, Basel 1997 (selection of lectures).
  • Erasmus from Rotterdam. Advocate of a modern Christianity. Lit, Münster 2003.
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam. Advocate of a New Christianity. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2013 (expanded and heavily revised English version of the 2003 monograph).

As editor:

  • Theodor Bibliander (1505–1564). A Thurgau resident in learned Zurich during the Reformation. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2005.
  • with Urs. B. Leu: Erasmus in Zurich. A secret authority. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 2007.
  • with Sven Grosse : Interpretation and hermeneutics of the Bible in the Reformation , De Gruyter, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-046277-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Christ-von Wedel, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Christ, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinbek