Katharina Greschat

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Katharina Greschat (born September 21, 1965 in Münster ( Westphalia )) is a German Protestant theologian and university teacher.

Life

Katharina Greschat is the daughter of the Münster church historian Martin Greschat , a younger sister is the art historian and museum director Isabel Greschat (* 1967). Another sister Sabine Greschat is a speech therapist . She started her school life in 1972 and finished school in 1985 with the general university entrance qualification .

Then, in the winter term 1985/86, wrote it yourself, to study, at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster a. This was followed by the continuation of the teaching degree at the Philipps University of Marburg , where she finished her teacher training for the secondary levels I and II in the subjects of Protestant theology and history with the 1st state examination on July 30, 1992 . On March 1, 1994, she passed her first ecclesiastical examination at the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . With the support of a state graduate scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, a doctoral program followed from 1994 to 1996. From April 1997 to October 1997 she attended the preparatory service of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.

She then became a research assistant at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , an activity that she continued from October 1, 1998 as a research assistant at the chair for Church History and Territorial Church History with Gerhard May at the same university. On June 23, 1999 she received her doctorate theologiae from the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster . Her dissertation was awarded the Hanns Lilje Prize of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , one of the most important awards for theological work. The work dealt with the views of the Gnostics Apelles and Hermogenes .

A short time later, Greschat began her habilitation thesis , which she completed on February 18, 2004 with the habilitation process at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In her writing she dealt with Pope Gregory the Great . In the summer semester of 2005 she received her first teaching assignment in Mainz. In the winter semester 2005/2006 until the summer semester 2008 she took over the chair of Christoph Markschies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From the winter semester 2008/2009 to 2009/2010 she was Professor of Church History (Old Church and Middle Ages) at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . During this time she worked with a group of religious scholars from Erfurt in a research project on individual piety in late antiquity, the aim of which was to examine how individual forms of religiosity were expressed in addition to public religion.

Since April 1, 2010, Greschat has been Professor of Church and Christian History (Old Church and Middle Ages) at the Ruhr University Bochum .

Her research focuses include ancient Christianity as a “domestic religion”, educational and gender issues in premodern Christianity, and the Christian discourses in the 2nd century . Together with Josef Lössl ( Cardiff University ) and Johannes van Oort ( University of Nijmegen / Pretoria ) Greschat is the editor of the magazine “ Vigiliae Christianae. A Review of Early Christian Life and Language ".

She is married to the theologian Reinhard G. Lehmann .

Fonts (selection)

  • Apelles and Hermogenes. Two theological teachers of the second century (= Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 48). Brill, Leiden 2000.
  • Then welcome Marcion and Marciönin '. Marcion in the Reformation disputes about the Lord's Supper. In: Gerhard May , Katharina Greschat (ed.): Marcion and its effect on the history of the church. Marcion and his Impact on Church History. Lectures of the international specialist conference on Marcion, held from 15. – 18. August 2001 in Mainz (= texts and studies on the history of early Christian literature 150). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, pp. 234-251.
  • The moralia in Job of Gregory the Great. A christological-ecclesiological commentary. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 978-3-16-148618-0 .
  • Family thing? On the transformation of domestic or familiar religiosity in ancient Christianity. In: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 17 (2013), pp. 248–267.
  • “Words of God proclaimed by the apostles”: Gospel quotations from Justin. In: Gospels and gospel traditions in the second century: experiments in reception , 2019, 175–192.
  • Old Church and Middle Ages: Textbook. Leipzig, 2019.
  • Reach a book often. In: Theologische Literaturzeitung 144/10, 2019, pp. 972–981.
  • as editor with Heike Omerzu (Ed.): Body and Communication. Contributions from theological gender research. Leipzig 2003. Theologische Literaturzeitung 128 (2003) 12, Sp. 1258-1259.
  • "Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind": the lasting influence of domestic education in Western late antiquity. In: Teachers in late antique Christianity: papers presented during a workshop at the University of Göttingen on "Teachers in Late Antique Christianity", 2018, 165–183.
  • House - school - church: educational concepts and institutions in (Christian) antiquity. In: Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte 37, (2018), 37–48.
  • Healing memory - witnessing Jesus Christ: a common word for the year 2017. In: Common texts / German Bishops' Conference; EKD, Evangelical Church in Germany, Hanover, 2016, [2]
  • Gregory the Great, The Epistula dedicatoria and the Praefatio to the Moralia in Job. In: Handbook of Biblical Hermeneutics: From Origen to the Present , 2016, 111–124.
  • Epiphanius I: Ancoratus and Panarion Haer. 1-33. 2nd extended edition published by M. Bergermann, Ch.-F. Collatz, GCS NF 10 / 1-2, Berlin / New York 2013, in: Gymnasium 123, 2016, 184–186.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ Katharina Greschat: The Moralia in Job of Gregory the Great: a Christological-Ecclesiological Commentary. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2005, foreword ( [1] on books.google.de)
  2. ↑ The biography of Katharina Greschat at the Ruhr University in Bochum
  3. ↑ The home environment of Christian families was an essential part of ancient Christian life. The research focus "domestic religion" specifically examines early Christianity in a general context as a domestic religion from the Greco-Roman period to late antiquity .
  4. ↑ Extensive bibliography on ev.rub.de
personal data
SURNAME Greschat, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster