Dominik Burkard

Dominik Burkard (born December 22, 1967 in Rottweil ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

From 1987 to 1992 he studied Catholic theology in Tübingen and Freiburg (1993 promotion to Lic. Theol. ( University of Tübingen ) / 1998 Promotion to Doctor of Divinity. ( PTH Sankt Georgen )). From 1996 to 2000 he was a research assistant at the Goethe University , since 1999 in the DFG Research College “Knowledge Culture and Social Change”, sub-project “Roman Inquisition, Index Congregation and Imprimatur in Modern Times” with Hubert Wolf . From 2000 to 2003 he was a research assistant at the University of Münster , DFG long-term project "Roman Inquisition and Index Congregation". After his habilitation in 2002 in the subject of Middle and Modern Church History in Münster , he became a member of the boarding school in 2002. Scientific commission for the evaluation of the Alois Hudal estate in the Pontifical Institute Santa Maria dell'Anima . In 2003 he became professor for church history in the Middle Ages and modern times in Würzburg (since 2006 professor). Since 2006 he has been a member of the steering committee of the Julius Maximilians University and the Center for Augustine Research . He has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Görres Society since 2006 and is co-editor of the Roman quarterly for Christian antiquity and church history . From 2007 to 2011 he was Deputy Director (Vice Dean) of the Graduate School of Humanities. Since 2007 he has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Catholic Academy in Bavaria . From 2010 to 2016 he was ombudsman at the University of Würzburg for the humanities and social sciences. Since 2011 he has been a liaison professor at the German Business Foundation . Since 2013 he has been a member of the Senate and the University Council of the University of Würzburg. He has been a second member of the Philosophical Faculty since 2014. Since 2015 he has been a member of the board of directors of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart (Deputy Chair) and co-editor of the Rottenburg Yearbook for Church History . He has been a member of the Commission for Contemporary History since 2017 .

His main research interests are the history of science and universities, the Roman Inquisition and Index Congregation, the relationship between state and church, ecclesiastical constitutional history, Catholic Enlightenment, Catholicism in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Church / Theology under National Socialism.

Fonts

• "Oasis in an enlightenment-addicted time"? The Catholic theological faculty of Heidelberg University between the belated Counter Reformation, Enlightenment and church reform (= Contubernium. Tübingen Contributions to the History of Science and University. Volume 42). Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-515-08020-1 (also licensed thesis, Tübingen 1993).
• with Hubert Wolf, Wolfgang Schopf and Gisbert Lepper: The Power of Censorship. Heinrich Heine on the index . Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-491-72392-2 .
• State Church - Papal Church - Episcopal Church. The “Frankfurt Conferences” and the reorganization of the Church in Germany after secularization (= Roman quarterly. Supplement 53). Rome / Freiburg / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-451-26253-3 (also dissertation, PTH Sankt Georgen 1998).
• with Hubert Wolf and Ulrich Muhlack : Ranke's “Popes” on the index. Dogma and history in conflict (= Roman Inquisition and Index Congregation. Volume 3). Paderborn 2003, ISBN 3-506-77674-6 .
• Heresy and Myth of the 20th Century. Rosenberg's National Socialist Weltanschauung before the Tribunal of the Roman Inquisition (= Roman Inquisition and Index Congregation. Volume 5). Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-77673-8 .
• with Wolfgang Weiß (Ed.) Catholic theology under National Socialism. Volume 1/1: Institutions and Structures . Würzburg 2007, ISBN 3-429-02851-5 .
• Joannes Baptista Sproll . Bishop in resistance (= man - time - history ). Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-17-021492-7 .
• Sebastian Merkle (1862-1945). Life and work of the Würzburg church historian as judged by his contemporaries (= sources and research on the history of the diocese and bishopric of Würzburg. Volume 57). Würzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87717-073-1 .
• Character - biography - politics. The theologians Bernhard Hanssler , Karl Hermann Schelkle and Josef Schuster in letters from the years 1932–1935 . Regensburg 2016, ISBN 3-7954-3171-9 .
• with Jacob Tonner: Reformation Catholic. Genesis and reception of Joseph Lortz 's “Reformation in Germany” (1940–1962) . Freiburg im Breisgau 2019, ISBN 3451325500 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Dominik Burkard