Dorothea Weltecke

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Dorothea Weltecke (born June 10, 1967 in Arolsen ) is a German historian .

Life

Weltecke studied history, Semitic studies and art history at the Free University of Berlin from 1988 to 1996, with an MA. From 1992 to 1999 she was a scholarship holder of the “ Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes ”. In 2000 the doctorate to Dr. phil. For her dissertation entitled The "Description of the Times" by Mōr Michael the Great (1126–1199). A study on its historical and historiographical context was awarded the Ernst Reuter Prize of the Free University of Berlin in 2001.

From 2000 to 2001 she was a research assistant in the DFG project “Trust” by Ute Frevert at Bielefeld University . From 2001 to 2007 she was a research assistant for Frank Rexroth at the University of Göttingen . From 2007 to March 2017 she was professor for the history of religions at the University of Konstanz . Since 2013 she has been the head of the Research Center for Aramaic Studies . In the summer semester of 2017 she moved to the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Weltecke's main research interests are the history of religions, the Orient and Europe in exchange, conflict and perception, the history of the Latin and Oriental churches and the history of religious deviances.

Publications (selection)

  • The "Description of the Times" by Mōr Michael the Great (1126–1199). Peeters, Lovanii 2003, ISBN 90-429-1132-8 .
  • "The fool says: There is no god". Atheism, unbelief and doubt in faith from the 12th century to modern times. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39194-6 .
  • (as ed.): History, theology, liturgy and present situation of the Syrian churches. Contributions to the Sixth German Syrologist Symposium in Konstanz, July 2009. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06732-4 .
  • (Ed. With Ulrich Rüdiger and Ulrich Gotter ): Religious diversity and dealing with minorities. UVK-Verlag, Konstanz 2015, ISBN 978-3-86764-536-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorothea Weltecke. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter.
  2. ↑ Melanie Gärtner: Philosophy and History in Brief. Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , January 12, 2017, accessed on January 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Weltecke, Dorothea - Cluster of Excellence “Cultural Foundations of Integration”. Retrieved August 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Weltecke, Dorothea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Arolsen