Stefan Rhein

Stefan Rhein (born 1958 ) is a German classical philologist . Since 1998 he has been the board member and director of the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt .

Stefan Rhein received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1987 on Melanchthon's Greek poems. From 1988 to 1997, Rhein was curator at the Melanchthonhaus in Bretten and, since 1994, has also been head of the Reuchlin research center at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

From 2007 he set up the state office for Luther 2017 to coordinate the nationwide activities of the Reformation anniversary.

Stefan Rhein is considered a great connoisseur of humanism and the time of the Reformation . His main research interests are Philipp Melanchthon , Johannes Reuchlin , the history of science and the theory and history of museums relating to the history of the Reformation.

Fonts (selection)

• Philology and Poetry. Melanchthon's Greek poems (edition, translation, commentary). 2 Bde. Diss. Heidelberg 1987. (Awarded the Prize of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 1989)
• Philipp Melanchthon. Reformer - teacher of Germany - companion of Luther, Lahr 1996 (2nd edition 1997).
• Letters for Europe. International traveling exhibition for the 500th birthday of Philipp Melanchthon, Karlsruhe 1997 (texts together with A. Zwickl) (Hungarian 1999; Italian 2000; Slovak 2000; French 2000).
• The beginning of the Reformation: Wittenberg 1517, Spröda 2017 (English translation: The Beginning of the Reformation: Wittenberg in 1517, Spröda 2017).
• Johannes Reuchlin. Notes on its reception in the 19th century, in: Badische Heimat 67 (1987), pp. 310-320.
• Appunti sul rapporto fra Filippo Melantone e l'Umanesimo italiano, in: Memores Tui. Studi di Letteratura classica ed umanistica in onore di Marcello Vitaletti, ed. S. Prete, Sassoferrato 1990, pp. 155-163.
• Johannes Reuchlin (1455–1522), a German “uomo universale”, in: Humanism in the German Southwest. Biographical Profiles, ed. PG Schmidt, Sigmaringen 1993, pp. 59-75 (expanded: Sigmaringen 2000, pp. 59-76).
• Virgil or the 'Mullein'. Was Paracelsus Humanist ?, in: Nova Acta Paracelsica 7 (1993), pp. 45-71.
• Reuchlin family. A genealogical excursion into the time of humanism and the Reformation, in: Ettlinger Hefte 29 (1995), pp. 63–71.
• Italia magistra orbis terrarum. Melanchthon and Italian Humanism, in: Humanism and Wittenberg Reformation. Ceremony on the occasion of the 500th birthday of the Praeceptor Germaniae Philipp Melanchthon, ed. M. Beyer / G. Wartenberg, Leipzig 1996, pp. 367-388.
• Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). The humanist among the reformers, in: “Nati sumus ad mutuam sermonis communicationem” / “We were born to communicate with one another in conversation”. Materials for the Melanchthon anniversary 1997, ed. Church Office of the EKD, Hanover 1997, pp. 3–8.
• Johannes Reuchlin - “a miracle sign in its time”, in: Johannes Reuchlin - the humanist: booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Leonhardskirche Stuttgart. Stuttgart, 2003, pp. 17-31.
• "The Luther Myth". Or how afterlife detaches itself from life, in: Mythos [s. supra II. 25], pp. 30-37.
• Denomination and museum. An attempt in: Pilgrimage to the museum? The communication of religion in the museum with a view to the visitors, ed. H. Schwillus, Berlin 2013 (Religious Education in Context; 5), pp. 127–149.
• Melanchthon's bookcase, in: Book and Reformation. [see above II. 29], pp. 213-239.
• Philipp Melanchthon and his Greek poet students, in: Hellenisti! Ancient Greek as a literary language in modern Europe, ed. v. Stefan Weise, Stuttgart 2017, pp. 15–46.
• 500 years ago: Melanchthon is coming! The inaugural address “About the redesign of university studies” of August 28, 1518, in: Luther 88 (2018), pp. 72–76.

Web links

Rhine on the website of the Luther Memorials Foundation Saxony-Anhalt

Remarks

1. ↑ Dr. Stefan Rhein. June 17, 2018, accessed August 10, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Stefan Rhein. Retrieved August 10, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Dr. Stefan Rhein. June 17, 2018, accessed August 10, 2019 .