Rotraud Wielandt
Rotraud Wielandt (born January 9, 1944 in Tübingen ) is a German scholar of Islam and Arab studies. She is the daughter of Helmut Wielandt and the sister of Erhard Wielandt .
Professional background
Rotraud Wielandt studied Islamic Studies / Arabic , Turkish studies , comparative religion and philosophy at the universities of Munich , Tübingen and Istanbul (Turkey) and in 1970 at the University of Tübingen doctorate . In 1982 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn . From 1985 to 2009 she was Professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic Studies at the University of Bamberg . In 2012 Pope Benedict XVI called she became an advisor to the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims .
From 1998 to 2007 Rotraud Wielandt was the first spokeswoman for the DFG Graduate School “Anthropological Foundations and Developments in Christianity and Islam” at the University of Bamberg. In 2004 she became a member of the management team of the Center for Interreligious Studies at the University of Bamberg, which she co-founded.
Awards
- 1986 Prize of the Philological-Historical Class of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
- 2000 election as corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 2008 “ Pro meritis scientiae et litterarum ” award from the Free State of Bavaria
- 2008 Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Friborg (Switzerland)
Works
- Revelation and history in the minds of modern Muslims. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1971.
Quote
“Anyone who speaks as a historian committed to phenomena will always have to refuse to explain that God has revealed himself here or there; because it is and remains an act of faith. "
Web links
- Rotraud Wielandt on the website of the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bamberg scholar of Islam advises the Vatican. (No longer available online.) CIBEDO, September 21, 2012, archived from the original on May 29, 2014 ; Retrieved May 29, 2014 .
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SURNAME | Wielandt, Rotraud |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scholar of Islam and university lecturer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Tübingen |