Johann Anselm Steiger

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Johann Anselm Steiger (born March 30, 1967 in Tübingen ) has been Professor of Church and Dogma History at the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Hamburg since 2001 .

Life

Steiger was initially an assistant for practical theology in Heidelberg (1991–1996) and completed his habilitation in 1994 in the history of churches and dogmas in Leipzig . 1995–2000 he was head of the Johann Gerhard Research Center at Heidelberg University. In addition, from 1995 to 2001 he held substitute professorships in Saarbrücken , Hamburg and Oldenburg .

In 2002 he was committed to the preservation of historic Protestant church libraries.

Steiger is the son of the theologian Lothar Steiger and the theologian and musicologist Renate Steiger .

Focus of work

Steiger is particularly concerned with Lutheran theology and piety in the Baroque period and the Enlightenment . Further fields of his research are Reformation, editing, border areas between literary studies, media studies and theology, the relationship between Jews and Christians in its history and the history of the interpretation of the Bible.

Honors

Works

  • Johann Ludwig Ewald (1748-1822). Rescuing a theological contemporary . Research on the history of the church and dogma 62. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1996
  • Johann Gerhard (1582–1637). Studies on theology and piety of the Church Father of Lutheran Orthodoxy . Doctrina et Pietas Dept. I, Vol. 1. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1997
  • Unexpected reunion with Johann Peter Hebel . Studies on the poetic and narrative theology of Hebels . Palatina Verlag, Heidelberg 1998
  • (Ed. :) Johann Lorenz von Mosheim , The power of the teaching of Jesus on the power of death , annotated and with an afterword and a contribution on Mosheim's sermons. Doctrina et Pietas Dept. II, Vol. 1. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1998
  • (Ed. And on. :) Johann Gerhard, Meditationes Sacrae (1603/4). With a facsimile of the autograph . Doctrina et Pietas Dept. I, Vol. 2. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1998
  • (Ed. And come :) Johann Gerhard, Meditationes Sacrae (1606/7). Latin-German . 2 vol. Doctrina et Pietas Abt. I, vol. 3,1-2. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2000 (795 pages)
  • Matthias Claudius (1740-1815). Dance of death, humor, foolishness and Socratism. With the dance of death by JKA Musäus and JR Schellenberg (1785) and numerous other illustrations . Palatina-Verl., Heidelberg 2002 ISBN 3-932608-30-5
  • Five central themes of the theology of Luther and his heirs. Communicatio-Imago-Figura-Maria-Exempla . Brill, Leiden 2002.
  • Longing for the night. Early Romanticism and Christian Faith in Novalis (1772–1801) . Manutius-Verl., Heidelberg 2003 ISBN 3-934877-23-0
  • (Edited and edited, with co-author by Peter Fiers :) Bibliographia Gerhardina. 1601-2002. Directory of the publications by Johann Gerhard (1582–1637) as well as their new editions, translations and revisions . Doctrina et pietas 1/9. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2003 ISBN 3-7728-1930-3
  • (Ed. :) Gregor Strigenitz (1548-1603). A Lutheran cleric in the second half of the Reformation century. A memorial to the 400th anniversary of death . Freimund, Neuendettelsau 2004.
  • 500 years of theology in Hamburg. Hamburg as a center of Christian theology and culture between tradition and future. With a directory of all doctorates of the theological faculty Hamburg . Works on Church History 95. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005 ISBN 3-11-018529-6
  • (Ed. And on. :) Friedrich Breckling , autobiography . An early modern ego-document in the field of tension between spiritualism, radical pietism and theosophy . Early modern period 109. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005 ISBN 3-484-36609-5
  • Medical theology: Christ Medicus and theologia medicinalis in Martin Luther and in Lutheranism in the Baroque period . Brill, Leiden 2005.
  • (Ed. And on. :) Leonhard Hutter , Compendium locorum theologicorum ex Scripturis Sacris et Libro Concordiae, Latin - German - English . 2 partial floors. Doctrina et Pietas Abt. II, Vol. 3. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2006 (1144 pages) ISBN 3-7728-1872-2
  • "Go out, my heart, and look for joy". Paul Gerhardt's summer song and the scholarship of the baroque period. Natural history, emblematics, theology . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007.
  • (Ed. :) "Eternity, time without time". Commemorative publication for the 400th birthday of the poet and theologian Johann Rist . Freimund, Neuendettelsau 2007.
  • Philologia Sacra. On the exegesis of the Holy Scriptures in Protestantism from the 16th to 18th centuries . Neukirchener, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2011.
  • Christophorus - an image of the Christian. Remembrance of saints by Martin Luther and in Lutheranism in the early modern period. Freimund, Neuendettelsau 2011.
  • Prayer in the Reformation and Baroque Era. A contribution to Martin Luther and Heinrich Müller as well as to the pictorial tradition of poor Lazarus. Freimund, Neuendettelsau 2013.
  • Pictures and bible. The title coppers of the Luther Bible by the Lüneberger Stern-Verlag (1650) and the cooperation between Johann Rist and Franz Steuerhelton. Mauritius, Heidelberg 2015.
  • The organ prospectus in the Lüne monastery as a testimony to Baroque Lutheran image and music theology. On the intermediality of word, image and music in the 17th century. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2015.
  • Memorial sites of the Reformation: Sacred art in the north (16th-18th centuries) . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2016.
  • The pulpit in St. Marien zu Rostock (1574/1723): A compendium of the Christian faith in pictures and words. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2017.
  • The castle chapel in Celle . An image and writing space of the Reformation. Documentation of all images and inscriptions in their contexts . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2018.
  • Bible interpretation through pictures. On sacred intermediality in the 16th to 18th centuries . Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2018.
  • (Ed. :) Reformation today. Volume IV: Reformation and Media. On the intermedia effects of the Reformation . Evangelical Publishing House, Leipzig 2018.
  • (Ed. :) Prayer in the denominations and media of the early modern period. Evangelical Publishing House, Leipzig 2018.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the proof of the full text in the pastor's sheet
personal data
SURNAME Steiger, Johann Anselm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, theologian and university professor, professor of church and dogma history
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Tübingen