Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr (born February 23, 1956 in Neuruppin ) is a German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar.

In 1975, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr passed the Abitur at the church college in Hermannswerder and then began studying Protestant theology at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg , which he graduated with a diploma in 1981. He was then a research assistant to the New Testament scholar Traugott Holtz . In 1983 he began his vicariate, which he completed with the second theological exam and ordination as pastor of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg . In the same year 1986 he received his doctorate in Halle ( Law and Paränese . Catechism-like series of instructions in early Jewish literature , Tübingen 1987). A time as a senior scientific assistant followed, completed in 1991 with his habilitation ( Heidenapostel from Israel. The Jewish identity of Paul according to its description in his letters , Tübingen 1992), also at the theological faculty in Halle .

With a Feodor Lynen fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , Niebuhr was a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall ( University of Cambridge ) from 1992 to 1993 . From 1994 to 1996 Niebuhr held the chair for Biblical Theology at the Technical University of Dresden . Since 1997 he has been Professor of the New Testament at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Web links

• Friedrich Schiller University Jena: Prof. Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

literature

• Reiner Pommerin , Thomas Hänseroth , Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden: The professors of TU Dresden, 1828–2003 . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2003, p. 684.