Gregor Wurst

Gregor Wurst (* 1964 in Münster ) is a German Catholic professor of church history at the University of Augsburg . His focus is on ancient church history and patrology .

Life

He completed his master's degree in Catholic theology , Coptic Studies , and Egyptology at the Universities of Münster, Freiburg im Üechtland and Geneva in 1989 . From 1990 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the patristic seminar at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) with Dirk Van Damme , Otto Wermelinger and Franz Mali . He was with the work in 1994 The Bêmafest the Egyptian Manichean at the Westphalian Wilhelms University with the title summa cum laude doctorate . He obtained his theological licentiate in 1998 with the work investigations into the life and work of Faustus von Mileve . His habilitation thesis The Homily De anima et corpore, a work by Meliton von Sardis? Introduction, synoptic edition, translation, commentary was accepted by the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Friborg (Switzerland) in 2000. Heisenberg scholarship holder of the DFG he was from 2001 to 2004. From 2003 to 2004 he represented the chair of Catholic theology with a focus on historical theology at the University of Siegen and from 2004 to 2006 the chair of church history, with special emphasis on ancient church history and patrology at the University of Augsburg. Since August 1, 2006, he has been full professor of church history, with special emphasis on ancient church history and patrology at the University of Augsburg. From 2007 to 2013 he was dean of the Catholic theological faculty at the University of Augsburg.

Publications (selection)

• with Andreas Kessler, Thomas Ricklin (eds.): Peregrina Curiositas. A journey through the orbis antiquus. In honor of Dirk Van Damme. ( Novum testamentum et orbis antiquus ; Volume 27). Universitäts-Verlag / Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Freiburg i.Ü. / Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-53929-0 .
• with Cäcilia Fluck , Lucia Langener , Siegfried G. Richter , Sofia Schaten (eds.): Divitiae Aegypti. Coptological and related studies in honor of Martin Krause. Dr. Ludwig Reichert, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 9783882268355 .
• The Bêma festival of the Egyptian Manicheans ( works on late antique and Coptic Egypt ; Volume 8). Oros Verlag, Altenberge 1995, ISBN 3-89375-111-4 . (= Dissertation)
• with Martin Krause (ed.): Ps. 2, Fasc. 1. The Bema Psalms ( Corpus fontium Manichaeorum ; Volume 1). Brepols, Turnhout 1996, ISBN 2-503-50526-0 .
• The homily De anima et corpore, a work by Meliton of Sardis? Introduction. Synoptic edition. Translation. Comment. I. Synoptic Edition. Translation. II. Introduction. Comment. Freiburg i.Ü. 2000. (= typed habilitation thesis)
• with Otto Wermelinger , Marie-Anne Vannier (eds.): Anthropos Laïkos. Mélanges Alexandre Faivre à l'occasion de ses 30 ans d'enseignement. ( Paradosis ; Volume 44). Editions Universitaires Friborg, Freiburg i.Ü. 2000, ISBN 978-2827108824 .
• with Otto Wermelinger, Johannes van Oort (eds.): Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West. Proceedings of the Friborg-Utrecht International Symposium of the IAMS. ( Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies ; Volume 49). Brill, Leiden 2001, ISBN 9789004114234 .
• with Rodolphe Kasser , Marvin Meyer (eds.): The Gospel of Judas from Codex Tchacos. National Geographic Society, Washington DC 2006, ISBN 978-1-4262-0042-7 .
• with Rodolphe Kasser, Marvin Meyer (eds.): The Gospel of Judas. Together with the Letter of Peter to Philip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos. Critical Edition. National Geographic Society, Washington DC 2007, ISBN 9781426201912 .
• with Günter Hägele , Markus Stein (eds.): Novum opus ex veteri. From the Gospel of Judas to the Furtmeyr Bible; Biblical and apocryphal manuscripts from late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Catalog for the exhibition in the Augsburg University Library, January 13 to April 30, 2010. Augsburg University Library, Augsburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-936504-04-0 .
• with Günter Hägele, Markus Stein (ed.): Judasevangelium and Codex Tchacos. Studies on the religious historical location of a Gnostic collection of scriptures. ( Scientific Studies on the New Testament ; Volume 297). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-150794-6 .
• with Andreas Merkt , Günther Wassilowsky (ed.): Reforms in the Church. Historical perspectives. ( Quaestiones disputatae ; Volume 260). Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-02260-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gregor Wurst in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV and list of publications