Hellmut Zschoch

Hellmut Zschoch (born April 16, 1957 in Idar-Oberstein ) is a Protestant theologian. Since 1995 he has been professor of church history at the Wuppertal Church University .

Life

After graduating from high school in Mainz , Zschoch studied Protestant theology from 1975 to 1980 at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Then he was vicar in Lich, Upper Hesse . Between 1982 and 1986 Zschoch assistant at the Institute of Church History of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he in 1987 Reinhard Schwarz about Conrad of Zenn and his Liber de monastic life for Doctor of theology doctorate .

Zschoch then worked for four years as a parish priest in Wald-Michelbach , before returning to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 1990 as a senior assistant and private lecturer.

In 1993 Hellmut Zschoch completed his habilitation in Munich with the text Reformatory Existence and Denominational Identity: Urbanus Rhegius as a Protestant theologian in church history from 1520 to 1530 . This was followed in 1993 by a substitute professor at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , before he was appointed to the Church University of Wuppertal as successor to Hans Scholl in 1995 .

Zschoch is a renowned connoisseur and interpreter of Christian poetry and literature of the modern age. The Christianity of the high and late Middle Ages is another focus of his research.

In addition, Zschoch is the author of six important articles in the BBKL , for example on Urbanus Rhegius , articles in the Lexicon Religion in Past and Present , such as the Augustinian Hermits , and the Real Theological Encyclopedia . In the TRE the articles about Friedrich von Spee and Gerhard Tersteegen come from his pen.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hellmut Zschoch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the Church University of Wuppertal