Raik Heckl

Raik Heckl (* 1967 in Jena ) is a German Protestant theologian .

Life

From 1983 to 1985 he did an apprenticeship as a construction carpenter in his parents' company. From 1986 to 1988 he did alternative military service in the East German NVA with the so-called construction soldiers . After graduating from high school in 1989, he studied theology from 1989 to 1994 in Leipzig , Naumburg (Saale) and Halle (Saale) , from 1994 to 1995 Jewish studies with the study program "Studium in Israel" in Jerusalem and from 1995 to 1997 theology in Leipzig. He passed his first theological exam in 1997 (diploma). After completing his doctorate in 2001 at the University of Leipzig , he took part in the teaching course of the German Evangelical Institute for Classical Studies in the Holy Land in Jordan, Syria and Israel in 2002. From 2000 to 2002 worked on the magazine for ancient Hebrew studies at the University of Bonn . From 2002 to 2005 he completed the preparatory service in the ELKTh . Since 2003 he has been a research assistant at the Theological Faculty in Leipzig (chair Rüdiger Lux ). From 2003 to 2005 he continued his preparatory service in an extra-occupational vicariate . After the second theological exam in 2005 and the ordination he has a preaching assignment in Gößnitz (Suptur Altenburg). After completing his habilitation in 2008, he represented the chair W3 Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Religious History at the Department of Theology at the University of Hamburg from 2010 to 2011 . From 2011 to 2015 he had a Heisenberg Fellowship I from the German Research Foundation. On June 24, 2013 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Leipzig. From February 2014 to August 2014 he did a research stay at New York University with Mark Smith. In September 2015, the positive assessment and approval of the Heisenberg grant II of the German Research Foundation took place.

Web links

• University of Leipzig
• academia.edu