Knut Schäferdiek

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Knut Schäferdiek (born November 3, 1930 in Cologne , † August 14, 2010 in Lohmar ) was a German Protestant theologian ,

Knut Schäferdiek was a son of the writer Willi Schäferdiek . His academic teacher was the church historian Wilhelm Schneemelcher , with whom he received his doctorate in 1958 (topic of the dissertation: The Understanding of John by Theodor von Mopsuestia , unpublished) and completed his habilitation in 1966 (topic: The church in the realms of the Visigoths and Suewen up to the establishment of the Visigoths Catholic State Church ; printed Berlin 1967). From 1979 to 1996 he worked as a full professor for church history at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Bonn , where he had previously been a lecturer and adjunct professor. His academic students included a. Christoph Markschies , Winrich Löhr and Christian T. Petersen .

His main focus was on ancient and early medieval church history , in particular the history of Christianization in the early Middle Ages and the history of Gothic Arianism . As a specialist advisor, he wrote and edited numerous articles in the Real Theological Encyclopedia and the Real Lexicon of Germanic Antiquities . 1966–1981 he was editor, 1981–2004 co-editor of the magazine for church history .

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Of the numerous essays and biographies, the most sustainable are summarized in:

  • Threshold time. Contributions to the history of Christianity in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Berlin u. a. 1996, ISBN 978-3110149685
  • The supposed Arianism of the Ulfila Bible. How to deal with a stereotype. In: Gotica Minora VI. Theologica & Onomastica. Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 978-3-935869-11-9
  • Edge migration. Memories of a Church Historian . In: Dietrich Meyer (Hrsg.): Church history as autobiography 2nd volume: A look into the workshop of contemporary church historians (= series of publications of the Association for Rhenish Church History. Volume 154). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2002, pp. 227-256.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Chronicle of the academic year 2009/2010 (PDF; 4.3 MB), ed. from the University of Bonn, Bonn 2011, p. 10.
personal data
SURNAME Schäferdiek, Knut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 2010
Place of death Lohmar