Cornelia Bernadette Horn

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Cornelia Bernadette Horn (* 1968 ) is a German orientalist specializing in the science of the Christian Orient .

Life

Cornelia Horn studied classical philology , philosophy , oriental languages, church history , computer-aided linguistic text analysis and theology in Germany ( University of Würzburg ), Luxembourg , Switzerland and the USA . She devoted herself extensively to the study of the Arabic, Syrian, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian and Coptic languages. In 2001 she was at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC with a dissertation on theological controversy in Palestine of the 5th century by Peter the Iberian doctorate . Horn completed his habilitation in 2011 in Tübingen with further work on the reception of this ascetic and theologian, which was important for early Christianity, as well as on the position of women and children in the Christian Orient from a cultural and historical perspective. After several positions in the USA, including from 2004 to 2012 as an assistant professor at Saint Louis University , where she was illegally denied tenure due to her gender , Horn was a Humboldt fellow at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Regensburg . Since 2014 she has been researching at the Free University of Berlin as a Heisenberg fellow . The DFG transferred the scholarship to the Heisenberg Professorship Languages ​​and Cultures of the Christian Orient at the University of Halle on October 1, 2016 . After the DFG funding expires in 2019, this will be included in the university's budget and stabilized.

Fonts (selection)

  • Asceticism and Christological controversy in fifth-century Palestine. The career of Peter the Iberian (= The Oxford early Christian studies ). Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2006, ISBN 0-19-927753-2 .
  • John Rufus: The lives of Peter the Iberian, Theodosius of Jerusalem, and the Monk Romanus (= Writings from the Greco-Roman world. Volume 24). Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2008, ISBN 1-58983-200-0 .
  • with John W. Martens: “Let the little children come to me”. Childhood and Children in Early Christianity . Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC 2009, ISBN 0-8132-1674-5 .
  • with Robert Phenix (ed.): Children in late ancient Christianity (= studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity. Volume 58). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-16-150235-4 .
  • with Geoffrey B. Greatrex , Robert Phenix, Sebastian Brock, Witold Witakowski: The chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor. Church and was in Late Antiquity (= Translated texts for historians. Volume 55). Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2011, ISBN 978-1-84631-493-3 .
  • (Ed.): The Bible, the Qur'ān, & their interpretation. Syriac perspectives (= Eastern Mediterranean texts and contexts. Volume 1). Abelian Academic, Warwick 2013, ISBN 0615785042 .
  • with Tʻamar Nucʻubiże, Alexey Ostrovsky (Ed.): Georgian Christian thought and its cultural context. Memorial volume for the 125th Anniversary of Shalva Nutsubidze (1888-1969) (= Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity. Volume 2). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2014, ISBN 9004264272 .
  • with Robert Phenix: The Rabbula Corpus. Comprising the Life of Rabbula, His Correspondence, a Homily Delivered in Constantinople, Canons, and Hymn (= Writings from the Greco-Roman World. Volume 17). Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2017, ISBN 0884140784 .

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Remarks

  1. ^ Denied Tenure for Being a Woman? Jury finds Saint Louis University denied tenure to a female professor based on her gender and in retaliation for a speaking out against the culture of her male-dominated department .
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Cornelia Bernadette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, Cornelia; Horn, Cornelia B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968