Roland Kany

Roland Kany (* 1958 in Nuremberg ) is a Roman Catholic theologian and has been professor for ancient church history and patrology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) since 2004 .

Kany studied Catholic theology, German and philosophy in Würzburg and Tübingen. He then spent years research and teaching in Tübingen, Oxford, Rome, Mainz and Freiburg.

For several years he was editor of the Lexikons für Theologie und Kirche and from 2001 to 2002 he was the feature editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . After doctorate (1986) and habilitation (2003), he became professor for church history at the University of Augsburg in 2003 . In 2004 he was appointed to the LMU Munich.

Works

• Mnemosyne as a program. History, memory and the devotion to the insignificant in the work of Usener, Warburg and Benjamin. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 1987 (=  studies on German literature 93).
• Research on the history of religion at the Warburg Library for Cultural Studies. Stefan Wendel, Bamberg 1989, since 1990 in the program of the Otto Harrassowitz publishing house, Wiesbaden (=  Gratia. Bamberg writings on Renaissance research 19).
• Augustine's Trinity Thinking. Assessment, criticism and continuation of modern research on “De trinitate”. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007 (=  studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity 22).

Web links

• Homepage Roland Kanys on the website of the University of Munich ( with bibliography )
• FAZ review of Kany's Augustinus book