Josef Nolte (art historian)

Josef Nolte (* 1940, in Duderstadt-Breitenberg, Eichsfeld) is a German theologian and art historian .

Life

Nolte first attended elementary school in Breitenberg. After grammar school in Hannover he studied from 1961 to 1969 theology, philosophy, history and art history and Faculty of Theology Catholic-through was the University of Tübingen to Dr. theol. PhD . Research stays in Rome , Florence and Cambridge followed after completing his doctorate . From 1967 to 1971 he was an assistant at the Leibniz College of the University of Tübingen and from 1971 to 1972 assistant at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen for a post-doctoral degree. The habilitation was terminated as a result of dogmatic differences with Professors Hans Küng and Joseph Ratzinger .

From 1973 to 1983 Nolte was employed at the Collaborative Historical Research Center “Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times” in the role of project manager for the sub-project “Leadership Classes and Scholarly Councils in the Early Modern Era”. Then he was professor for art history and museum education at the University of Hildesheim . At the request of the university and the holder of the professorship, the Minister for Science and Art, Johann-Tönjes Cassens, renamed the professorship to a “Professorship for European Cultural History and Art History”. After his retirement in 2005, Nolte represented the vacant professorship until 2008. In his Hildesheim years he lived in a historical manor near Hildesheim, which he and other tenants also used as a meeting place.

Since 2005 he has been largely back in Tübingen, where he has had his main residence since he was a student. From there he also worked as a journalist on European issues; the latter in connection with the Europe Center Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart, which he founded in 1976 .

Web links

• Josef Nolte on the homepage of the University of Hildesheim.Retrieved on January 19, 2017