Simone Paganini

Simone Paganini (born September 29, 1972 in Busto Arsizio ) is an Italian Roman Catholic theologian and Old Testament scholar.

Life

Paganini attended elementary and middle school from 1978 to 1986 and from 1986 to 1990 the humanistic high school in Busto Arsizio. After graduating from high school in 1990 (Italian, Greek, philosophy and history) he studied Catholic theology and Christian philosophy in Florence and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1991 to 1996 and Catholic theology at the University of Innsbruck from 1996 to 1999 . Paganini received his master's degree in theology on June 29, 1999 (with distinction). From 1999 to 2002 he completed his doctoral studies in Innsbruck and graduated with honors as a doctor of theology on March 5, 2002.

Paganini received a research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the LMU Munich for 2007/2008 and also completed training as an academic social manager at the Vienna University of Economics and Business from 2006 to 2008 . After his habilitation in December 2008 in the subject of "Old Testament Biblical Studies" at the University of Innsbruck, he became a private lecturer in the subject "Old Testament Biblical Studies". In 2010 he was awarded the Cardinal Innitzer Prize for the Humanities .

From 2011 Paganini has been a Research Associate at the University of Pretoria . From 2011 to 2015, Claudia Paganini's husband taught as “Professore Incaricato” the subject “Theology of the Old Testament” at the PTH Brixen . Since March 2013 he has been teaching as a full professor of Bible theology (AT and NT) at RWTH Aachen University . Since 2017 he has been Managing Director of the Institute for Theology at RWTH. He is a member of the university's senate and spokesman for the professor in the philosophy faculty.

In 2019 he was awarded the State Teaching Prize in the “Digital Teaching” category in Düsseldorf.

Web links

• Personal websites on the RWTH Aachen server