Christoph Strohm

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Christoph Strohm (born September 14, 1958 in Memmingen ) is a German theologian , Reformation and church historian .

Christoph Strohm, son of the theologian and pastor Albert Strohm , studied Protestant theology and history in Munich , Neuendettelsau and Heidelberg . In 1981 she was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation . From 1984 to 1987 Strohm was a research assistant in a research project funded by the Volkswagenwerk Foundation on the resistance of the Bonhoeffer-Dohnanyi Circle against Adolf Hitler . In 1987 the first church exam took place. In 1987 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg. From 1988 to 1990 he worked as a vicar . In 1990 he passed the second church exam. Ordination followed in 1991 . In 1995 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg. There he worked as a private lecturer in 1995/96. From 1994 to 1996 he was a research assistant at the research center for the publication of Martin Bucer's works at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . From 1996 to 2006 he taught as a full professor for church history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Since April 2006 Strohm has held the chair for Reformation history and modern church history at Heidelberg University.

His main research interests are the influences of ideological and denominational orientation on legal development in the early modern period, law and jurisprudence in Reformed Protestantism (1550–1650), the life and work of Johannes Calvin , the resistance to National Socialism, the edition of the German writings and the exchange of letters of the reformer Martin Bucer as well as the cultural-historical effects of the Bible in the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 2008 he has been a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. He is co-editor of the journal Evangelical Theology .

His brother is Heinrich Bedford-Strohm , regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and council chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany.

Fonts (selection)

  • The churches in the Third Reich . Beck's series. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-406-61224-4 .
  • John Calvin. Life and work of the reformer. Beck's series. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-56269-3 . ( Review )
  • Calvinism and Law. Philosophical and denominational aspects in the work of Reformed jurists in the early modern period. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 3-16-149581-0 . ( Review )
  • Ethics in Early Calvinism. Humanistic influences, philosophical, legal and theological arguments as well as aspects of the history of mentality using the example of Calvin's student Lambertus Danaeus. de Gruyter, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-11-015061-1 .
  • Theological ethics in the fight against National Socialism. The path of Dietrich Bonhoeffer with the lawyers Hans von Dohnanyi and Gerhard Leibholz in the resistance (= Heidelberg studies on resistance, persecution of Jews and church struggle in the Third Reich , 1). Kaiser, Munich 1989.

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SURNAME Strohm, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant church historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen