Martin Illert

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Martin Illert (* 1967 in Kiel ) is a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

From 1989 to 1994 he studied theology in Kiel, Marburg and Oxford . From 1994 to 1995 he taught as a guest lecturer for German at the Orthodox Theological Faculty of Sofia University . After completing his doctorate (1995–1997) at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel under Reinhart Staats on the subject of Johannes Chrysostomos and Syrian monasticism , he completed the vicariate in Kiel from 1997 to 1999 . From 1999 to 2000 he was Vicar Abroad at St. Anne's Lutheran Church in the City of London. From 2000 to 2002 he was a pastoral assistant for the German-speaking congregation in London-East. From 2002 to 2003 he was pastor for the German church in Sofia . From 2003 to 2006 he was advisor to the leading clergy at the main church Sankt Jacobi (Hamburg) .

From 2006 to 2012 he was parish pastor at the Hamburg Michel . From September 2012 to February 2019 he worked in the Department for Orthodoxy, General Ecumenism and Scholarships in the Church Office of the Evangelical Church in Germany. From March 2019 to June 2020 he worked for the theology department at the science publisher Ferdinand Schöningh | Brill Germany GmbH. Since July 2020 he has headed the Central, Southeast and Eastern Europe department in the EKD Church Office. From 2014 to 2019, the married father of three children was co-editor of the Ecumenical Review . Since 2015 he has been head of the "Orthodox Churches" section of the Handbook of Religions (LOTR). Since the winter semester 2014/2015 he has been teaching at the theological faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). After completing his habilitation in December 2015 in Eastern Church Studies at the MLU on the subject of dialogue - narration - transformation. The bilateral theological dialogues of the EKD and the BEK with Orthodox patriarchates since 1959 . Reviewers: Reinhard Thöle (first reviewer), Jörg Ulrich (second reviewer ), Assaad Elias Kattan (external reviewer), he has been teaching as a private lecturer at the theological faculty in Halle since the summer semester of 2016 . In June 2016 he was on the staff of the council chairmen of the EKD at the pan-orthodox synod in Crete. In November 2016, as part of an academic partnership with the Lviv Theological Academy, he was appointed adjunct professor there.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church awarded him the Priest's Cross in 2016 and the Serbian Orthodox Church the Priest's Cross in 2016. In 2017, the State University of Yerevan awarded him the gold medal for the considerable contribution in recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide .

Martin Illert is currently working on a monograph on the ancient Bulgarian speech of Presbyter Kosma "Against the Bogomils " (10th century).

Fonts (selection)

  • John Chrysostom and the Antiochene-Syrian monasticism. Studies on theology, rhetoric and church politics in the Antiochene writings of John Chrysostom . Pano-Verlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-907576-31-4 (also dissertation, Kiel 1998).
  • as translator: Doctrina Addai - de imagine Edessena. The Abgarlegende - Edessa's image of Christ. Greek-Latin-German (= Fontes Christiani. Volume 45). Brepols, Turnhout 2007, ISBN 978-2-503-52114-5 .
  • as translator: Pseudo-Makarios: sermons. From collections C and H (= Library of Greek Literature. Patristic Department. Volume 74). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 3-7772-1301-2 .
  • Dialogue - narration - transformation. The dialogues of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR with Orthodox Churches since 1959 (= supplements to the Ecumenical Review. Number 106). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2016, ISBN 3-374-04540-5 .
  • as editor (together with Irena Zeltner Pavlovic): Eastern Churches and Reformation 2017. Encounters and conferences in the anniversary year , 3 volumes, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (Volume 1: Dialog and Hermeneutics , Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-374-05613-2 ; Volume 2 : Freedom from an orthodox and evangelical perspective, Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-374-05708-5 ; Volume 3: The testimony of Christians in the Middle East , Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-374-05710-8 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH: Martin Illert takes over the department of theology and religion at Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh. In: BuchMarkt. March 28, 2019, accessed on March 28, 2019 (German).
  2. ^ Homepage of Martin Illert on the website of the Theological Faculty in Halle .
  3. ↑ Project display in Researchgate .
personal data
SURNAME Illert, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel