Georg Pfleiderer (theologian)

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Georg Pfleiderer (born January 3, 1960 in Stuttgart ) is a German Protestant theologian .

From 1980 to 1987 Pfleiderer studied Protestant theology and Jewish studies in Munich, Tübingen and Heidelberg. From 1987 to 1992 he then held a position as a research assistant at the chair for systematic theology and contemporary theological issues with Gunther Wenz at the University of Augsburg . In 1991 Pfleiderer received his doctorate from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

He completed his teaching vicariate 1992–1993 and the parish vicariate 1993–1995 in the Evangelical Church in Baden . He was ordained in 1994 . With a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation, Pfleiderer carried out research from 1994 to 1996 at King's College London .

From 1996 to 1999 he was a research assistant (again with Wenz) at the Institute for Fundamental Theology and Ecumenism at LMU Munich. There he completed his habilitation in 1998.

In 1999 he was appointed full professor for systematic theology / ethics at the University of Basel . He has been a member since 2008 and since 2012 President of the Federal Ethics Commission for Biotechnology in the Non-Human Sector .

Pfleiderer is married and has three children.

literature

  • Religion Past and Present (RGG). 4th edition. Register. Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, Sp. 303.

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