Manfred Paul Fleischer

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Manfred Paul Fleischer (born June 26, 1928 in Nieder Peilau-Schlössel ) is a German historian .

Life

Fleischer emigrated to the USA in 1952. He received a BA in 1955 from Wagner College in New York, a Bachelor of Divinity (theological degree) in 1959 from Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia and an MA in 1961 from the University of Pennsylvania . Fleischer received his doctorate in 1965 in Erlangen , where he was a student of Hans-Joachim Schoeps , with a dissertation on “the Catholic-Lutheran conversation”. He then worked temporarily as a pastor and German teacher in the USA. From 1963 he taught as a lecturer in history and from 1965 as a professor at the University of California, Davis . His research focuses on the interactions between Christianity and Western culture.

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  1. Journal of Religious and Intellectual History . Volume 42, Brill, 1990, p. 191.