Irmtraud Fischer

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Irmtraud Fischer (born June 14, 1957 in Bad Aussee , Austria ) is an Austrian theologian and professor at the Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Karl-Franzens University in Graz . From October 2007 to 2011 she was Vice Rector with responsibility for research.

Life

Irmtraud Fischer completed a pedagogical degree from 1975 to 1977 , which she completed in 1977 with the teaching examination for elementary schools . From 1977 to 1982 she studied Catholic theology in Graz . From 1983 to 1994 she worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Old Testament Biblical Studies at the University of Graz under Professor Johannes Marböck. 1988 doctorate it to the doctor of theology In 1993 - on a proposal by Erich Zenger out - its Habilitation at the University of Graz. It was the first Catholic theological women's habilitation in Austria.

From 1994 to 1997 she was first assistant professor and later associate professor at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. From 1997 to 2004 Irmtraud Fischer was full professor for "Old Testament and Theological Women's Studies" at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , since 2004 she has been professor for Old Testament biblical studies at the University of Graz.

Irmtraud Fischer was a member of the editorial team of the international journal Concilium in the feminist theology section for several years, was a member of the Zurich Bible translation group , was president of the European Society for Theological Research of Women and a member of the advisory board for the translation project Bible in Just Language . Guest professorships have taken her to Marburg , Vienna , Bamberg and Jerusalem . She has been co-editor of the Exegese in our time series since 1997 , and has been chairwoman of the Working Group of German-speaking Catholic Old Testament Scholars (AGAT) since 2005. In addition, she is chair of the curriculum committee for the inter-faculty course Jewish Studies at the Center for Jewish Studies in Graz.

In 2017, Fischer was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen .

Works (selection)

  • Where is the Lord? Stuttgart 1989. ISBN 3-460-00191-7
  • The Parents of Israel: Feminist Theological Studies on Genesis 12–36 . Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-11-014232-5
  • Torah for Israel, Torah for the people. The concept of the book of Isaiah . Stuttgart 1995. ISBN 978-3-460-04641-2
  • Divine Warriors: Biblical Tales of the Beginnings of Israel . Stuttgart 1995. (4th edition 2013) ISBN 3-17-013508-2
  • Herder's theological commentary on the Old Testament. Rut , together with Erich Zenger, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001. (2nd edition 2005) ISBN 978-3-451-26811-3
  • Heralds of God: On a gender-fair interpretation of the phenomenon of prophecy and prophetesses in the Hebrew Bible . Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-17-017457-6
  • In the footsteps of the scholarly wise men : Festschrift for Johannes Marböck on the occasion of his retirement, (published together with Ursula Rapp and Johannes Schiller), Berlin / New York 2003. ISBN 978-3-11-017889-0
  • Prophecy in Israel . Old Testament and Modernism Volume 11, edition, Münster / Hamburg / London 2003. ISBN 3-8258-5458-2
  • Gender-fair exegesis: Collected contributions to the reflection of gender bias and its effects in the translation and interpretation of biblical texts . Münster 2004. ISBN 3-8258-7244-0
  • Teachers of God: Wise Women and Woman Wisdom in the Old Testament . Stuttgart 2006. ISBN 978-3-17-018939-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ T. Heimerl / J. Kügler (Ed.), A Better World - Without Religion? Würzburg 2018. p. 76.
  2. ^ Lisa Dittrich: Department of History and Cultural Studies awards an honorary doctorate to Prof. Irmtraud Fischer. Justus Liebig University Giessen, press release from February 6, 2017 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on February 6, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Irmtraud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Aussee , Austria