Klaus Fitschen

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Klaus Fitschen (born February 12, 1961 in Scheeßel ) is a German theologian and church historian.

Origin and education

Fitschen comes from a social democratic family. From 1980 to 1987 he studied Protestant theology in Heidelberg , Munich and Kiel . During his studies in Heidelberg he became a student assistant at Reinhart Staats . After taking the first theological exam in the Hanover regional church in 1987 , he wrote his dissertation until 1989.

From 1990 to 1992 he received his vicar training in Nuremberg . He then passed the second theological exam and has been pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria since then , today on leave due to his foreign professorship. In the same year he did his doctorate at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel after he had published his dissertation.

Career

In the following years, Klaus Fitschen worked at the Institute for Church History and Church Archeology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel (professor Reinhart Staats ). Furthermore, he accepted an additional teaching position at the Faculty of Education (1994/95).

In 1996 he completed his habilitation with a study on the Messalians and was appointed private lecturer and senior assistant. Thanks to an EKD scholarship, he was able to take part in the archaeological course of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies in the Holy Land in 1997.

In 2000, Klaus Fitschen was appointed Associate Professor. In 2001 he was awarded the Schleswig-Holstein State Prize for special achievements in teaching. In the summer semester of 2002 he took over the representation of the chair for modern and contemporary church history (including the history of ancient Christianity) at the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig . In 2004 he was appointed and appointed to this professorship (as successor to Kurt Nowak ) and has been teaching at the theological faculty in Leipzig since then.

Klaus Fitschen is Chairman of the Historical Commission of the German National Committee at the Lutheran World Federation .

Fonts

  • Serapion from Thmuis. Real and spurious writings and the testimonies of Athanasius and others . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1992, ISBN 3-11-012886-1
  • Messalianism and anti-Messalianism. An example of the heretic history of the Eastern Church . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-55179-7
  • Catholicism from 1648 to 1870 . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-374-01633-2
  • What is freedom Liberal and Democratic Potentials in Catholicism 1789–1848 . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-374-01857-2 .
  • Protestant minority churches in Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-374-02499-5
  • Love between men? German Protestantism and the topic of homosexuality = Christianity and contemporary history 3. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2018. ISBN 978-3-374-05588-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Fitschen, My Access to Church History, in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science. Münster 2013. p. 67.
  2. ↑ K. Fitschen, My Access to Church History, in: B. Jaspert (Ed.), Church History as Science. Münster 2013. p. 68.
  3. ^ Website of the Historical Commission of the German National Committee at the Lutheran World Federation
personal data
SURNAME Fitschen, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheeßel