Christoph Nebgen

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Christoph Nebgen (* 1975 in Bad Ems ) is a German Catholic church historian .

Life

From 1996 to 2001 he studied Catholic theology, history and education in Mainz , where he passed the first state examination for teaching at grammar schools in 2001 with the thesis Anselm Eckart, a missionary to Brazil from Mainz . Since 1997 he has been a research assistant (graduated from 2001) in the Department of Medieval and Modern Church History and in the DFG project Jesuit Missionaries , where he was a research assistant from 2003 to 2006 . From 2002 to 2003 he had a 12 month research and study stay as a DAAD scholarship holder at the Pontificia Università Gregoriana in Rome . He researched in archives for 6 months from 2005 to 2006 in Venezuela , Colombia and Chile as a scholarship holder of the Scholarship Agency Latin America-Germany (ICALA).

From 2006 to 2014 he was a research assistant at the Department of Medieval and Modern Church History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , and from 2014 to 2018 at the Institute for Church History in Mainz. In the 2006 summer semester he was awarded a Dr. theol. PhD (PhD supervisor Johannes Meier ), in 2013 he completed his habilitation in the subject of Middle and Modern Church History and was appointed as a private lecturer at the Catholic Theological Faculty of Johannes Gutenberg University. In October 2018 he was appointed university professor (W2) for church and theological history at Saarland University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Society for Middle Rhine Church History and editor for the diocese of Mainz at the Archive for Middle Rhine Church History . His research interests include the "worldwide" church history, Christian religious and cultural history, the history of orders (especially Jesuits and Franciscans ) and the diocesan history of Mainz .

He was awarded the Martin Behaim Prize for his dissertation from the Friends of the Research Foundation for European Overseas History in 2007. In March 2007 he received a one-month research grant at the Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos in Seville .

Fonts

  • Missionary calls overseas in three German provinces of the Society of Jesus in the 17th and 18th centuries (= Jesuitica . Volume 14). Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2007, ISBN 3-7954-1942-5 (also dissertation, Mainz 2005/2006).
  • Jesuits from Central Europe in Portuguese and Spanish America. A bio-bibliographical handbook with an overview of the non-European work of the Society of Jesus in the early modern period, Volume 3 New Granada (1618–1771) . Aschendorff, Münster 2008, ISBN 978-3-402-11788-0 .
  • Confessional experiences of difference. Travel reports from the Rhine (1648–1815) (= Ancien Régime, Enlightenment and Revolution . Volume 40). De Gruyter / Oldenbourg, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2014, ISBN 3-11-035159-5 (also habilitation thesis, Mainz 2012).
  • as editor: Time is a messenger from God. Saint Peter Faber SJ and his work in Mainz (= Mainz perspectives. From the history of the diocese . Volume 7). Echter, Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-429-03723-9 .
  • as editor with Claus Arnold : Life Pictures from the Diocese of Mainz. Volume 1. Eleven portraits . Echter, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-934450-64-6 .
  • as editor with Claus Arnold: Life Pictures from the Diocese of Mainz. Volume 2. Fourteen portraits . Echter, Würzburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-429-04470-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Nebgen, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Ems