Georg Schöllgen
Georg Schöllgen (born April 29, 1951 in Düsseldorf ) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and church historian .
After graduating from the old-language Görres-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf, Georg Schöllgen studied Catholic theology and classical philology at the universities of Bonn and Tübingen from 1970 to 1975 . In 1982 he received his doctorate in ancient church history with the work Ecclesia sordida? On the question of the social stratification of early Christian communities using the example of Carthage in the time of Tertullian . From 1989 to 1991 Schöllgen was a research fellow at the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute for Research into Late Antiquity at the University of Bonn. In 1991 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn in the subject of Ancient Church History and Patrology . From 1991 to 1997 Schöllgen was a university lecturer for church history at RWTH Aachen University . Since 1997 he has been a professor of ancient church history and patrology at the University of Bonn. Schöllgen has been the director of the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute for the Study of Late Antiquity since 2001. From 2004 to 2006 he was Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn.
Schöllgen's main research interests are early Christian social, official and legal history. He has been a member of the Patristic Commission of the German Academies of Sciences since 2002 and a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2005 . Schöllgen is considered to be one of the best experts on ancient and early Christian economics and a specialist in questions of social history and the old church regulations.
Fonts
Monographs
- The beginnings of the professionalisation of the clergy and the ecclesiastical office in the Syrian Didascalia (= yearbook for antiquity and Christianity . Supplementary volume 26). Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-402-08110-5 .
- translated and introduced: Didache = doctrine of the twelve apostles . 2nd edition, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 1992, ISBN 3-451-22101-2 .
- Ecclesia sordida? On the question of the social stratification of early Christian communities using the example of Carthage at the time of Tertullian (= Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity. Supplementary Volume 12). Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 1984, ISBN 3-402-08512-7 .
Editorships
- with Clemens Scholten: Stimuli: Exegesis and its Hermeneutics in Antiquity and Christianity. Festschrift for Ernst Dassmann (= yearbook for antiquity and Christianity. Supplementary volume 23). Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-402-08107-5 .
- with Sible de Blaauw, Heinzgerd Brakmann, Therese Fuhrer , Hartmut Leppin , Winrich Löhr , Wolfgang Speyer : Reallexikon für Antike und Christianentum (RAC) . Non-fiction dictionary on the discussion between Christianity and the ancient world , Stuttgart, ISBN 3-7772-5006-6 .
- with Sible de Blaauw, Therese Fuhrer , Winrich Löhr : Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity (JbAC) . Aschendorff-Verlag, Münster.
Web links
- Literature by and about Georg Schöllgen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Georg Schöllgen at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Page by Georg Schöllgen at the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schöllgen, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Roman Catholic theologian, church historian and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |