Christoph Markschies

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Christoph Markschies at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Christoph Johannes Markschies (born October 3, 1962 in Berlin-Zehlendorf ) is a German Protestant theologian and professor of ancient Christianity.

From January 1, 2006 to October 18, 2010 he was President of the Humboldt University in Berlin . On December 2, 2011, he was elected Vice President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , and on November 29, 2019, as the new President, succeeding Martin Grötschel , an office that he will take up on July 4, 2020. Since 2015 he has been the director of the Berlin Institute for Church and Judaism .

His main research interests within the older church history are above all the history of ideas and ideas - especially Gnosis and Montanism as well as the transformation of pagan philosophy in Christian theology - in the context of other religions, the interpretation of the Christian Bible and its parallel Jewish history of interpretation as well as the history and present of the Judeo-Christian Relations.

Christoph Markschies with Friederike Fless at the 2015 Academy Day in Berlin.

Life

Christoph Markschies' father was Hans Lothar Markschies , professor for modern German literature at the Free University of Berlin, his mother a doctorate teacher for German and history. His advanced courses at the grammar school in Berlin-Steglitz were history and Greek. His home parish was Berlin-Dahlem, where he heard sermons from Helmut Gollwitzer and Kurt Scharf . After graduating from high school in 1980 and a tour of Italy, Markschies studied Protestant theology , classical philology and philosophy in Marburg , Jerusalem , Munich and Tübingen from the 1981 summer semester . In Tübingen he was a participant in Martin Hengel's senior seminars . After taking the first theological exam in 1987, he succeeded Hanns Christof Brennecke as Luise Abramowski's assistant . In 1991 he published his dissertation on Valentinus . In 1994 he completed his habilitation and in 1995 became professor of church history at the University of Jena . In autumn 2000 he moved to Heidelberg University , where he held the chair for historical theology. In 2001 he received the Leibniz Prize . Since 2004 he has held the chair for older church history ( patristic ) at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2010 Markschies received the Theological Prize of the Salzburg University Weeks for his complete works .

In 2015 he was appointed Dagmar Westberg Endowed Professorship at the University of Frankfurt . He has been a member of the University Council of the University of Erfurt since October 2019 .

Christoph Markschies' brother is the art historian Alexander Markschies (* 1969).

Act

Christoph Markschies is a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and, as secretary of the humanities class, also a member of the academy's board of directors. He also belongs to the Academies of Sciences in Erfurt and Heidelberg and is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts , the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and the Academia Europaea . In 1994 he received the Hanns Lilje Prize .

He heads the academy company "The Greek Christian Writers of the First Centuries" and the " Turfan Company" of the Union of German Academies' long-term project program, is a senator of the Leibniz Association , a member of the scientific advisory board of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and various other advisory boards of scientific institutions. He was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and a member of its scientific advisory board, several times a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been teaching there since 1996. As an ordained pastor, he preaches regularly in Berlin.

In 2005 a selection committee proposed him to succeed the resigned HU President Jürgen Mlynek as the new President. The university's board of trustees then proposed him as his successor on September 23, 2005. On November 1, 2005, the university council elected him in the first ballot with 47 of the 54 votes cast (four invalid votes, three against) as the new president. His term of office began on January 1, 2006, when Markschies was Germany's youngest university president.

In 2007 the Theological Faculty of the University of Lucian Blaga awarded Sibiu Markschies an honorary doctorate. In 2011 Markschies received an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Oslo .

Comments by Markschies in connection with the poor performance of the Humboldt University in the excellence competition in 2007 caused a stir . As an explanation for this, Markschies referred to the fact that the HU, as a former university in the GDR, had only been part of the “Federal Republic of Germany” for 17 years. By comparing it with other universities, he drew a picture according to which the HU has only existed as a university for 17 years, even if the 200th anniversary of the university is currently being prepared and there is a 60-year history of the university under the name of Humboldt. Above all, scientists and employees who worked at the HU before 1990 felt offended by this assessment.

On September 8, 2009, Markschies announced that he would not be available for any further term as President of the Humboldt University and that he would be giving up this post at the end of his term in 2010. After the election of Jan-Hendrik Olbertz as the new president, both announced at a press conference that Markschies would hand over his office on October 18, 2010.

In spring 2010 Markschies became chairman of the Chamber for Theology of the Evangelical Church in Germany , and since June of the same year he has been the councilor for the Order of St. John . Since January 2012 he has been a regular columnist for the monthly magazine Chrismon plus . There he is responsible for the column Das Wort , which deals with the interpretation of selected Bible passages.

On February 10, 2017, the Pontifical Lateran University and its Institute Augustinianum awarded Markschies as the first Protestant ever an honorary doctorate for his research on the history of the church in antiquity.

On October 4, 2017, Markschies received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for his engagement in ecumenical and Judeo-Christian dialogue.

Markschies has been a jury member for the Voltaire Prize since 2017 .

As of July 2020, Markschies will be the editor of the Theologische Literaturzeitung .

Important publications

  • Valentinus Gnosticus? Investigations on the Valentine Gnosis, with a commentary on the Fragments of Valentine . WUNT 65. Mohr, Tübingen 1992, ISBN 3-16-145993-8
  • Church history workbook . UTB 1857. Mohr, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-16-146354-4 (standard introduction for theology students)
  • Ancient Christianity: piety, ways of life, institutions , Munich, Beck 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-54108-7
  • Alta Trinità Beata. Collected studies on the theology of the old church in the Trinity , Tübingen 2000.
  • The Gnosis . Beck'sche Reihe 2173: CH Beck Wissen, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-44773-2
  • (Ed. :) Between Classical Studies and Theology. On the relevance of patristics in the past and present . Studies of the Patristic Working Group 6. Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1200-6
  • Is theology a science of life? Some observations from antiquity and their consequences for the present . Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-487-13065-3
  • Imperial Christian Theology and its Institutions. Prolegomena on a History of Ancient Christian Theology , Tübingen 2007.
  • Origen and his legacy. Collected studies , texts and investigations on the history of early Christian literature 160, Berlin / New York 2007.
  • (with Johannes Zachhuber as ed.): The world as a picture. Interdisciplinary contributions to the visuality of world views . Walter de Gruyter Verlag, Berlin / New York 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020029-4
  • Liberated to freedom. Education and educational justice from a Protestant perspective , Edition Chrismon, Frankfurt / Main 2011.
  • (together with Jens Schröter as ed.): Ancient Christian Apocrypha in German translation. Edited by Christoph Markschies and Jens Schröter in conjunction with Andreas Heiser ; 7th edition of the collection of the New Testament Apocrypha founded by Edgar Hennecke and continued by Wilhelm Schneemelcher . Volume I: Gospels and Related. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012. Two volumes.
  • Hellenization of Christianity. Sense and nonsense of a historical category of interpretation , theological literary newspaper. Forum 25, Leipzig 2012.
  • Christian Theology and its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire. Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theology , Waco, TX 2015.
  • God's body: Jewish, Christian and pagan ideas of God in antiquity . CH Beck. Munich 2016. ISBN 3-406-66866-6 .
  • Departure or hangover mood? On the situation after the anniversary of the Reformation . Kreuz Publishing House. Freiburg i.Br. 2017. ISBN 978-3-946905-09-7 ( online )

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Markschies new President of the Humboldt University
  2. ^ Farewell words of President Christoph Markschies on October 18, 2010
  3. ↑ BBAW press releases: Election of the Vice Presidents 2011
  4. ↑ New President for the Berlin Science Academy , deutschlandfunkkultur.de Kulturnachrichten from November 29, 2019, accessed November 29, 2019
  5. ↑ www.ikj-berlin.de | Employees. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
  6. ↑ C. Markschies, My Access to Church History , in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science . Münster 2013. p. 115.
  7. ↑ C. Markschies, My Access to Church History , in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science . Münster 2013. p. 116.
  8. ↑ C. Markschies, My Access to Church History , in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science . Münster 2013. pp. 117f.
  9. ↑ C. Markschies, My Access to Church History , in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science . Münster 2013. p. 119.
  10. ↑ C. Markschies, My Access to Church History , in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science . Münster 2013. p. 125.
  11. ↑ C. Markschies, My Access to Church History , in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science . Münster 2013. p. 126f.
  12. ↑ Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies gives Dagmar Westberg lectures
  13. ^ New University Council , notification from the University of Erfurt from October 10, 2019.
  14. ↑ Member entry by Christoph Markschies at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz , accessed on October 27, 2017
  15. ↑ On September 1st, 2011, Prof. Christoph Markschies was made an honorary Doctor of Theology at the University of Oslo. The article is based on his Honorary Degree Acceptance Lecture, delivered on September 2nd at the Faculty of Theology ..
  16. ^ Tilmann Warnecke: Excellence Initiative - The HU feels "humiliated". Der Tagesspiegel , October 22, 2007, accessed on December 18, 2010 .
  17. ↑ Uwe Schlicht: Humboldt University: Markschies goes. Der Tagesspiegel , September 9, 2009, accessed December 18, 2010 .
  18. ↑ Jan-Hendrik Olbertz elected as the new President of the HU , press release of the HU Berlin from April 20, 2010, accessed on May 15, 2010.
  19. ↑ Markschies appointed representative for the Order of St. John. EKD , June 28, 2010, accessed on March 11, 2011 .
  20. ↑ Christoph Markschies on the Chrismon website , accessed on January 13, 2015.
  21. ^ Protestant theologian Markschies receives Roman honorary doctorate
  22. ↑ Steinmeier honors Christoph Markschies with an Order of Merit
  23. ↑ Presentation of the ThLZ on eva-leipzig.de
personal data
SURNAME Markschies, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Markschies, Christoph Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Zehlendorf