Johannes Heil (historian)

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Johannes Heil (born February 27, 1961 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German historian .

Heil received his doctorate in Middle and Modern History at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1994 and completed his habilitation in 2003 with Wolfgang Benz at the TU Berlin . He was then a Fellow at the Universities of Madison, Wisconsin and Notre Dame, Indiana .

In 2005 he was appointed to the Ignatz Bubis Endowed Chair at the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg. Since September 1, 2008, he has been the first Vice-Rector of the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg and was elected Rector for a six-year term in June 2013 . The term of office ended on Sep. 30. 2019. Since December 2012 he has also been honorary professor at Heidelberg University .

His work focuses on Jewish history at the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, the history, religion and culture of the Jews in Europe in the Middle Ages and early modern times, the older and modern historiography of Jewish history, and the political, cultural and religious aspects of Judeo-Christian Relationships. He is the initiator and director of the digital " New Gallia-Germania Judaica ".

Fonts (selection)

  • with Annette Weber (ed.): Ersierter Kultur: der Fall Gurlitt . Conference publication Heidelberg. Berlin: Metropol 2015.
  • with Stephan J. Kramer (ed.): Circumcision: The sign of the covenant in criticism. On the debate about the Cologne judgment , Berlin 2012.
  • with Daniel Kroiellnik (Ed.): Jewish Studies as a Discipline - the Disciplines of Jewish Studies. Festschrift of the University for Jewish Studies Heidelberg 1979–2009 (= writings of the University for Jewish Studies Heidelberg; 13), Heidelberg 2010.
  • "Enemies of God" - "enemies of man". The idea of ​​the Jewish world conspiracy (13th-16th centuries) . Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-406-9 ( Antisemitism: History and Structures 3), (At the same time: Berlin, Techn. Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2003).
  • Compilation or construction? The Jews in the Pauline Commentaries of the 9th Century . Hahn, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7752-5615-6 ( research on the history of the Jews A 6), (partly also: Frankfurt (Main), Univ. Diss., 1994).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary professorship awarded to the first prorector of the University of Jewish Studies Heidelberg (PDF; 29 kB), press release, website of the University of Jewish Studies Heidelberg, January 16, 2013, accessed on January 26, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Heil, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main