Jörg Bölling

Jörg Bölling (* 1974 in Coesfeld ) is a German church historian .

From 1989 to 1991 he completed church music training in Münster (degree: C-exam) and from 1989 to 2007 he was the deputy organist and choir director of the St. Johann / St. Ludger in Billerbeck and various parishes in Münster and at Campo Santo Teutonico in Rome. In 1993 he passed his Abitur as the best in his class at the municipal high school Nepomucenum Coesfeld .

From 1993 to 1999 he studied history, Catholic theology, Latin, pedagogy, historical auxiliary sciences and musicology at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the University of Venice (Ca 'Foscari). In 1999 he passed the 1st state examination and was awarded a Dr. phil. with a thesis on the renaissance papal ceremony at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and in 2010 Dr. theol. with a dissertation on the veneration of the Virgin Mary and Devotio moderna at the Ruhr University Bochum in cooperation with the University of Duisburg-Essen .

From 2007 to 2017 he was Hedwig Röckelein's research assistant at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and supervisor of the diplomatic apparatus she heads .

In 2001 he received a scholarship from the German Historical Institute and, as a member of the Görres Society, regularly did research stays and activities at the Roman Institute of the Görres Society . In 2013 he completed his habilitation in Middle and Modern History as well as historical auxiliary sciences at the Philosophical Faculty of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . After substituting professorships in Göttingen and Wuppertal, he has been Professor of Church History at the Hildesheim University Foundation since January 1, 2018 .

His research interests lie in the history of the papacy, church reforms, liturgy and church music as well as the relationship between church and world, sacred and secularity.

Publications (selection)

• The renaissance papal ceremony. Texts - Music - Performance (= tradition - reform - innovation. Studies on the modernity of the Middle Ages. Volume 12). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2006, ISBN 3-631-55169-X .
• Reform before the Reformation. Founding of Augustinian canons at Marian pilgrimage sites by the Windesheim Congregation (= Vita regularis. Treatises. Volume 61). LIT, Berlin et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12612-2 .
• Between Regnum and Sacerdotium. Historiography, hagiography and liturgy of the Petrus patronage in Saxony during the Salier period (1024–1125) (= Medieval research. Volume 52). Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2013, ISBN 3-7995-4372-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jörg Bölling in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bölling, Jörg .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Page from Bölling at the University of Göttingen
• Bölling's website at the University of Hildesheim (still under construction)
• University professor for church history: Inaugural lecture by Jörg Bölling

Individual evidence

1. ^ Page of the diplomatic apparatus
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