Irene Dingel

Irene Dingel (born April 26, 1956 in Werdohl ) is a German church historian and Protestant theologian .

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Irene Dingel studied Protestant theology and Romance languages in Heidelberg and Paris . From 1981 to 1982 she was "Élève à titre étranger" at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Fontenay-aux-Roses, where she also took on duties as a lecturer. From 1982 to 1993 she worked as a research assistant and university assistant at the theological faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and had various research grants. In 1986 she received her doctorate in Heidelberg, and her habilitation took place in 1993 also at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität. Dingel initially took on a substitute professorship, then the professorship for historical theology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (1994–1998). Since 1998 she has been professor of church and dogma history at the Evangelical Theological Faculty (FB01) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . As director of the Department of Western Religious History , she has headed the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz since 2005 .

Irene Dingel is u. a. Full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, board member of the Association for the History of the Reformation , member of the Commission for Protestant Church Regulations of the 16th Century at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , member of the interacademic management commission of the Leibniz Edition, member of the scientific advisory board of the Interdisciplinary Institute for early modern cultural history (IKFN) at the University of Osnabrück and member of the University Council of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . From 2012 to 2017 she was also a member of the Science Council . On June 27, 2015, she was honored with the Hermann Sasse Prize . On November 25, 2019, the Prime Minister of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer , awarded her the Order of Merit of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for exceptional commitment.

Her research focuses on the history of the Reformation and the denominational age, besides she is particularly concerned with the early Enlightenment in its Western European context.

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Monographs (selection)

• Concordia controversa. The public discussions about the Lutheran agreement at the end of the 16th century , Gütersloh 1996 (sources and research on the history of the Reformation 63), ISBN 978-3-579-01731-0 .
• Observations on the development of the French vocabulary: Petit Larousse 1968 - Petit Larousse 1981 , Frankfurt / M. 1987 (Heidelberg Contributions to Romance Studies 21), ISBN 978-3-8204-9577-5 .
• Reformation. Centers - Actors - Events , Göttingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-7887-3032-1 .
• Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, L'ubomír Batka (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology , ISBN 978-0-19-876647-6 , Oxford 2014.
• Irene Dingel and Christiane Tietz (eds.), Secularization and Religion. European interactions , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-525-57093-7 (publications of the Institute for European History Mainz. Dept. for Occidental Religious History, Supplement 123).

Editorships (selection)

• with Christiane Tietz : The Peace Potential of Religion , Mainz 2009 (publications by the Institute for European History Mainz, Supplement 78), ISBN 978-3-525-10091-2 .
• with Matthias Schnettger : On the way to Europe. Interpretations, Visions, Realities , Göttingen 2010 (publications by the Institute for European History Mainz, supplement 82), ISBN 978-3-525-10095-0 .
• with Christiane Tietz: The political task of religion. Perspectives of the three monotheistic religions , Mainz 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-10113-1 .
• The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Complete new edition, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-52104-5 .
• The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Sources and materials. , Vol. I-II, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-52105-2 and ISBN 978-3-525-52102-1 .
• Abraham Mangon, a short but true description of the history of the Reformed in Frankfurt. 1554–1712, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 978-3-374-02177-2 .
• with Henning P. Jürgens: Milestones of the Reformation. Key documents of the early effectiveness of Martin Luther , Gütersloh 2014, ISBN 978-3-579-08170-0 .
• with Armin Kohnle : Good order. Models of order and ideas of order in the Reformation period , Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-374-03790-2 .
• with Robert Kolb and L'ubomír Batka: The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology , Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-19-960470-8 .
• with Volker Leppin : Das Reformatorenlexikon , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-650-40009-3 .
• with Heinz Duchhardt : European integration and the churches II: Denker und Querdenker , Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-10115-5 .
• with Matthias Schnettger: On the way to Europe. Interpretations, visions, realities , Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-10095-0 .
• with Heinrich Assel: proclamation and research , specialist journal Religion.
• with Joachim Bahlcke : The Reformed in Silesia. From the 16th century to the Old Prussian Union of 1817 , Göttingen 2016 (VIEG Beih. 106), ISBN 978-3-525-10140-7 .
• Memoria - theological synthesis - conflict of authorities. The reception of Luther and Melanchthon in the school generation , Tübingen 2016 (late Middle Ages, humanism, Reformation 90), ISBN 978-3-16-154238-1 .
• with Henning P. Jürgens: On the trail of the Reformation in Rhineland-Palatinate , Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0438-0 .
• Series Controversia et Confessio. Theological controversies 1548–1577 / 80 , Göttingen.
• European History Online (EGO) with Johannes Paulmann

Web links

• Literature by and about Irene Dingel in the catalog of the German National Library
• ev.theologie.uni-mainz.de
• Personal page at the Leibniz Institute for European History
• Personal page at the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz
• Irene Dingel in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists

Remarks

1. ↑ Member entry of Irene Dingel at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz