Manfred Schulze (theologian)

Manfred Schulze (born January 17, 1945 in Grünendeich , Lower Saxony ) is a Protestant theologian. From 1993 until his retirement in 2009 he was Professor of Church History at the Church University of Wuppertal .

Life

After graduating from the Schiller Gymnasium in Hameln , Schulze studied Protestant theology in Bochum , Hamburg and Tübingen between 1966 and 1971 , where he completed his studies in February 1971 with the first evangelical theological examination. He was then a member of the Collaborative Research Center for the Late Middle Ages and the Reformation and Heiko A. Obermans research assistant at the Chair of Church History at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

There doctorate Schulze 1981 From via Gregorii to Via reformationis. The dispute over Augustine in the late Middle Ages. to Doctor theologiae . In the summer of 1988 , Manfred Schulze completed his habilitation in Tübingen with the text Divine Service and State Welfare: Spiritual Reform Policy of Saxon Princes before the Reformation in Church History.

Schulze is a profound expert on the theologians of the late Middle Ages , such as the philosopher and Augustinian hermit Gregor von Rimini (1300-1358) or the scholastic Marsilius von Inghen († 1396), whose works Schulze commented on and edited.

Another focus of his research is the political history of the Reformation . Manfred Schulze is also the author of significant contributions to the BBKL , for example on Martin Luther and the lexicon series Religion in Past and Present , for example on Marsilius von Inghen, Johannes Tetzel and the posting of the theses .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Schulze in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bibliography Manfred Schulze