Hermann-Josef Scheidgen

Hermann-Josef Scheidgen (born January 12, 1957 in Troisdorf ) is a German theologian and historian .

Life

After graduating from the Maximilian-Kolbe-Gymnasium in Cologne in 1976 , he studied Catholic theology , philosophy, history and education at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne until 1982 . On November 11, 1976, he was awarded first prize at the federal level by Federal President Walter Scheel in the Federal President's history competition sponsored by the Körber Foundationexcellent. During his student days, he was involved as a student representative in numerous committees (including AStA, student parliament, senate) and advocated the reform of teacher training courses in particular. In 1979 he was first chairman of the Christian Democratic Students' Ring, Bonn eV

From 1984 to 1989 Scheidgen was a research assistant at the chair of the church historian Gabriel Adriányi at the University of Bonn. In 1990 he became German bishops in the First World War with his dissertation . The members of the Fulda Bishops' Conference and its Ordinaries 1914-1918 with 'summa cum laude' the doctor of theology doctorate . From 1991 to 1992 he initially worked as a research assistant at the Caritas Association for the Neuss city ​​dean's office. Between 1992 and 2004 he took on teaching positions at the Kassel University in the field of theology. Between 1992 and 1996 Scheidgen received two scholarships from the DFG . a. made a longer research stay in the Vatican Secret Archives possible. From 1996 to 2001 he was again a research assistant at Gabriel Adriányi's chair.

Scheidgen is a founding member of the Society for Intercultural Philosophy eV, of which he was vice president and managing director from 1991 to 1995 and from 2004 to 2013. Since 2008 he has been editor of the series Studies on Intercultural Philosophy, publishers Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York and Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen, together with Henk Oosterling. From 2003 to 2013 he moderated the monthly matinee “Philosophy in Libresso” in the Cologne cultural café of the same name.

In his habilitation thesis , which he accepted at the University of Bonn in the 2001/2002 winter semester , he researched the religious and social goals of German Catholics and political Catholicism in Germany during the revolution of 1848/1849 . Since 2002 he has been a private lecturer at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Bonn with the venia legendi for Middle and Modern Church History . From 2007 to 2013 he is also a lecturer for church history at the seminar for Catholic theology at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and from 2008 to 2015 lecturer for history and its didactics at the University of Cologne. Since 2012 he has been visiting professor in the history department at Lorand Eötvös University, Budapest. In 2017 the Philosophical Faculty of the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest appointed him honorary professor.

Works (selection)

• German bishops in the First World War. The members of the Fulda Bishops' Conference and their Ordinariates 1914–1918. Cologne 1991 (dissertation).
• Paths of Neusser Caritas. Documentation of church-social life in the city dean's office Neuss from the 19th century to the present. Cologne 1997.
• German Catholicism in the Revolution of 1848/49. Episcopate - clergy - lay people - associations. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar 2008 (revised and updated version of the habilitation thesis).
• Edited with Hamid Reza Yousefi : Ortliche Ortlichkeit der Philosophie. An intercultural orientation. Commemorative publication for Ram Adhar Mall's 70th birthday. Nordhausen 2007.
• Edited with Notker Schneider a. a .: Philosophy from an intercultural point of view. Philosophy from an Intercultural Perspective (Studies on Intercultural Philosophy, Volume 7). Amsterdam 1997.
• Edited with Claudia Bickmann u. a .: Tradition and a break in tradition between skepticism and dogmatics. Intercultural Philosophical Perspectives (Studies on Intercultural Philosophy, Volume 16). Amsterdam 2006.
• Edited with Claudia Bickmann u. a .: Philosophy and religion in conflict? International congress at the University of Cologne July 13-16, 2006 (Studies on Intercultural Philosophy, Volume 18). Two volumes. Nordhausen 2008.
• Edited with Erik Gieseking a. a .: On the ideology problem in history. Herbert Hömig on his 65th birthday. Lauf an der Pegniz 2006.
• Edited with Hamid Reza Yousefi a . a .: Paths to history. Convergences - divergences - interdisciplinary dimensions. Nordhausen 2010.
• Ed. With Philipp Thull: Be reconciled with God. The holy skirt as a sign of undivided Christianity. Nordhausen 2012.
• Edited with Wolfgang Hasberg: Canossa. Aspects of a turning point. Regensburg 2012.
• Ed. A century of charity. The history of the Diocesan Caritas Association for the Archdiocese of Cologne eV Cologne 2016.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann-Josef Scheidgen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Scheidgen's homepage at the University of Bonn
• Hermann-Josef Scheidgen's habilitation (revised, 2008) in the Google book search