Hacik Rafi Gazer

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Hacik Rafi Gazer (born September 15, 1963 in Istanbul ) is an Armenian-German theologian. Since 2006 he has been professor for "History and Theology of the Christian East" at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Life

Hacik Gazer graduated from high school in Istanbul in 1981. With an EKD scholarship, he began studying theology in Bochum in 1981. Between 1983 and 1986 he studied Protestant theology at the church college in Bethel . His teacher in church history at Bethel was Gerhard Ruhbach . Between 1986 and 1989 he studied Protestant theology, Orthodox theology and Old Armenian at the LMU Munich . He learned Old Armenian from Julius Aßfalg . For a short time he studied Protestant theology in Tübingen. In 1993 he did his doctorate at the Protestant theological faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen under Joachim Mehlhausen .

In 1994 he became a research assistant at the theological faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg at the seminar for denominational studies of the Orthodox churches with Hermann Goltz . Between 1994 and 1999 research stays took him to Beirut, Jerevan, Istanbul, Paris and Vienna. In 2000/2001 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the history of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Soviet Union between the World Wars for the subject of church history at the MLU Halle-Wittenberg. His inaugural lecture in the 2001 winter semester was entitled “Sultans, Patriarchs and Missionaries on the Bosporus. On the research program of an ecumenical church history in the interreligious context of the border between Europe and Asia since 1453 ”.

From 2002 he was the main collaborator in the project “The Armenian Educational Institutions in the Caucasus and Sub-Caucasus in the Processes of Social Change in the 19th and 20th Centuries” at the MLU Halle-Wittenberg. Between 2003 and 2005 he held a teaching position for church history at the TU Dresden. From the winter semester of 2006, he will be the successor to Karl Christian Felmy on the chair for “History and Theology of the Christian East” at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Erlangen.

family

Gazer is married to Martin Brecht's daughter , has two children and lives in Nuremberg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b H. R. Gazer, My Access to Church History, in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science. Münster 2013. p. 80.
  2. ↑ HR Gazer, My Access to Church History, in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science. Münster 2013. p. 81.

Publications (selection)

  • The Armenian Church in Soviet Armenia between the World Wars: Anatomy of a Destruction , Münster; Hamburg; Berlin; London: Lit-Verlag 2001 (Studies on Oriental Church History; Vol. 14), also habilitation paper University of Halle, 2000, ISBN 3-8258-5555-4 .
  • The reform efforts in the Armenian Apostolic Church in the late 19th and first third of the 20th century , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1996, Church in the East, series of monographs; Vol. 24, zugl .: Tübingen, Univ., Diss., 1992/93, ISBN 3-525-56442-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gazer, Hacik Rafi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul