Inge Mager

Inge Mager (born December 11, 1940 in Honigfelde ) is a German church historian .

Life

From 1960 to 1966 she studied Protestant theology in Berlin , Tübingen and Göttingen . After the 1st theological exam in 1966 in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and her theological doctorate in 1969 in Göttingen, she passed the 2nd theological exam in 1979 in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. After her theological habilitation in 1986 and venia legendi in the subject of church history in Göttingen, she was appointed to the chair for Church history in Lower Saxony in Göttingen in 1987. After ordination in 1990 at the University Church of Göttingen , she was appointed to the Chair for Church and Dogma History in Hamburg in 1993 . She was released in 2003. She has been married for ten years since 1967 and has three grown children.

Its focus is on the 16th and 17th centuries ( Reformation , Late Reformation , confessional age ). Other interests include Protestant hymnology and historical women's studies. Coming from the history of the territorial church in Lower Saxony, it tries to achieve greater vibrancy and clarity through concretions and details. In addition to the conventional factors influencing church history, she is particularly interested in working out the human factors in church history. It publishes the yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony and the studies of Church history in Lower Saxony. She is co-editor of the works on the church history of Hamburg. She wrote several articles in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL).

Fonts (selection)

• Georg Calixt's theological ethics and their aftermath (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony . Volume 19). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1969, OCLC 185894057 , (also dissertation, Göttingen 1969).
• as editor: Georg Calixt : Selected works. Volume 3 Ethical Writings . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1970, ISBN 3-525-55662-4 .
• The formula of the Agreement in the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Contribution to creation, reception, validity (= studies on the church history of Lower Saxony . Volume 33). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-55238-6 , (also habilitation thesis, Göttingen 1986).
• as editor: Women's Profiles of Lutheranism. Life stories in the 20th century (= The Lutheran Church, History and Design . Volume 22). Gütersloher Verl.-Haus, Gütersloh 2005, ISBN 3-579-05213-6 .
• as editor: Gerhard Uhlhorn : Gesammelte Schriften. Volume 2. Christian charity. Part 3. Christian charity since the Reformation . LVH, Hannover 2006, ISBN 3-7859-0926-8 .
• "That there is no particular difference between the Augsburg Confession and the Catholic religion ...". The contribution of Professor Johann Fabricius from Helmstedt to Duke Anton Ulrich's marriage policy across denominational boundaries (= contributions to the history of the district and the former University of Helmstedt . Volume 22). District of Helmstedt, Office for School, Culture and Sport, Helmstedt 2009, ISBN 978-3-937733-23-4 .
• as editor: Gerhard Uhlhorn: Gesammelte Schriften. Volume 2. Christian charity. Part 2. Christian charity in the Middle Ages . LVH, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-7859-1074-0 .
• as editor: Hamburg Church History in Articles. Part 4. The 19th century (= work on the church history of Hamburg . Volume 27). Hamburg Univ. Press, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-943423-02-0 .
• As editor: Passing on - researching - passing on. Festschrift for Hans Otte on his 65th birthday. Yearbook of the Society for Church History in Lower Saxony, Volume 113, Hannover 2015, OCLC 920854420 .

literature

• Rainer Hering , Hans Otte and Johann Anselm Steiger as editors: Transforming God's word into life. Perspectives on (North) German Church History. Festschrift for Inge Mager on her 65th birthday (= yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony . Volume 12). Landeskirchliches Archiv, Hannover 2005, ISBN 3-9806265-4-7 .

Web links

• University of Hamburg