Franz Sedlmeier

Franz Xaver Sedlmeier (born November 20, 1954 in Fribertshofen- Berching ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian specializing in the Old Testament .

Life

In 1966 he transferred to the Gabrieli Gymnasium in Eichstätt. After graduating from high school in 1973, he studied theology for two years at the Eichstätt Ecclesiastical University , one year at the University of Münster (Exegetikum) and four years at the Gregoriana in Rome ( bachelor's degree and licentiate ). After the ordination of deacons in 1979 in the Collegium Germanicum et Hungaricum , he completed his theological studies with a licentiate in Biblical Theology with a licentiate thesis with Gian Luigi Prato : The Deluge of the Yahweh. Investigations into the motivation of the flood tales based on the Yahwist material. After being ordained a priest in Eichstätt in the summer of 1981, he worked for three years as a pastor in the diocese of Eichstätt . After the second official examination in the autumn of 1984, he was released from work for doctoral studies with Rudolf Mosis at the Catholic University of Eichstätt, who was also a research assistant at the Chair of the Old Testament. In addition to his work at the chair and his academic studies, he took care of the pastoral care of the children's village Marienstein near Eichstätt. In 1986 he moved to the University of Mainz with Rudolf Mosis as a research assistant. He was pastorally active in the parishes "Maria Königin" Mainz-Drais and "Franziskus" Mainz-Lerchenberg . After receiving his doctorate in 1989 as Dr. theol. At the KThF of the University of Mainz with the dissertation Studies on Composition and Theology of Ezekiel 20 , he worked from 1989 to 1992 in the Ecumenical Life Center Ottmaring . He began his habilitation studies in 1990 on the subject of Jerusalem in the Psalms. From 1991 to 1992 he studied Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Egyptology at the LMU Munich . From 1992 to 2000, in addition to working on his habilitation, worked in various services in parish pastoral care, adult education and theological training in Ingolstadt . He completed the habilitation process on June 17, 1996 with the Venia legendi "Old Testament Literature and Theology". From January 1996 he was a research assistant in Mainz . In the winter semester 1998/1999 he taught as a lecturer at the Dormition Abbey . In the winter semester 1998/1999, in the summer semester 1999 and in the winter semester 1999/2000 he represented the chair at the University of Mainz (successor to Rudolf Mosis).

Since May 2000 he has been professor of Old Testament science at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg (winter semester 2001/2002 - winter semester 2003/2004 Dean of Studies of the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg / winter semester 2002/2003 - summer semester 2004 Vice Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg / October 2004 to October 2006 Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Augsburg).

On June 12, 2008, he was appointed Corresponding Member of the Pontificia Academia Theologica .

Since summer 2009 he has been living in a spiritual community with Wilfried Hagemann and Tobias Häner in Augsburg-Lechhausen , where he works in the parishes of St. Pankratius and Our Lady.

In the 2009/2010 winter semester he taught as a visiting professor at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (February to April 2010). In the winter semester 2011/2012 he taught as a visiting professor at the Dormition Abbey (March 2012). In the summer semester of 2012 he was visiting professor at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (March to May 2012).

From 2013 to 2017 he was a member of the Extended University Management and the University Council of the University of Augsburg.

On June 4, 2018 he was appointed a full member of the Pontifical Academy of Theology ("Membro Ordinario della Pontificia Accademia di Teologia") by the State Secretariat of the Vatican.

In 2019, February to April, guest lecturer at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem.

Web links

• University of Augsburg: Franz Xaver Sedlmeier