Martin Wallraff

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Martin Wallraff (born October 25, 1966 in Munich ) is a German Protestant church historian .

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Wallraff studied Protestant theology from 1987 to 1993 at the universities of Munich , Rome and Heidelberg . From 1993 to 1996 he continued his studies as a graduate student at the University of Cambridge . After his doctorate as Dr. theol. at the University of Heidelberg under Adolf Martin Ritter (1996) he worked as an assistant at the University of Bonn under Wolfram Kinzig , completed his habilitation there in 2000 and then founded the research center " Iulius Africanus " as a Heisenberg fellow (until 2002) . In 2002 he was ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Italy in Rome ; in the same year he took the chair for church history at the University of Munich.

In 2002, Wallraff accepted a call to the University of Jena as a professor for church history ( patristic ). From 2005 to 2016 he was full professor of church and theological history at the University of Basel . There he also served as dean of the theological faculty from August 2012 to 2014. In 2008 he was elected head of the Frey-Grynaean Institute in Basel, known as the “Lector” . In 2010 and 2012 he was a Research Fellow at Harvard University . Since March 2016, he has held the Chair of Early Church History at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

His research focuses on the history of church historiography, the history of the liturgy, ecumenism and intercultural theology, and in particular the history of ancient churches, on which he wrote numerous monographs, anthologies, annotated editions and essays. The Greek church historians and the theology of early Christianity represent a particular focus.

In 2000 Wallraff was one of the winners of the Gerhard Hess Prize and received the Hanns Lilje Prize . In 2016, Wallraff received a “Proof of Concept Grant” (PoC) from the European Research Council (ERC) as part of his ERC grant and is about “ Paratexts of the Bible. Analysis and edition of the Greek textual tradition (ParaTexBib) “develop an online program that visualizes the structure of medieval manuscripts and thus facilitates their historical understanding.

Fonts (selection)

  • The church historian Socrates. Studies of history, method and person . Göttingen 1998 (= dissertation, Heidelberg 1996; research on church and dogma history 68)
  • Christ Verus Sol. Sun Worship and Christianity in Late Antiquity . Münster 2001 (= habilitation thesis , Bonn 2000; Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . Supplementary volume 32)
  • with Cristina Ricci: Oratio funebris in laudem Sancti Iohannis Chrysostomi. Epitaffio attribuito a Martirio di Antioch (BHG 871, CPG 6517) . Spoleto 2007 ( Quaderni della Rivista di Bizantinistica 12)
  • with Umberto Roberto, Karl Pinggéra and William Adler: Iulius Africanus, Chronographiae. The Extant Fragments . Berlin 2007 ( The Greek Christian Writers . New Episode 15)
  • with Jürgen Krüger : Luther's Rome. The Eternal City in the Renaissance . Darmstadt 2010
  • with Carlo Scardino, Laura Mecella, Christophe Guignard and William Adler: Iulius Africanus, Cesti. The Extant Fragments . Berlin 2012 ( The Greek Christian Writers . New Episode 18)
  • Code and Canon. The book in early Christianity . Berlin 2013 ( Hans Lietzmann Lectures 12)
  • Sun King of late antiquity. The religious policy of Constantine the Great . Freiburg im Breisgau 2013
  • with Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich , Katharina Heyden and Thomas Krönung: Mirabilia Urbis Romae. The wonders of the city of Rome . Freiburg im Breisgau 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LMU Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, October 26, 2016: ERC Two Proof of Concept Grants for LMU researchers , accessed on October 26, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wallraff, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant church historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich