Theodor Nikolaou

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Theodor Nikolaou (Νικολάου Θεόδωρος; born March 24, 1942 in Anavra Almyrou , Magnesia Prefecture, Greece ) is an Orthodox theologian .

Life and Scientific Career

Theodor Nikolaou studied from 1961 orthodox theology at the theological faculty in Halki near Constantinople (Istanbul) and received his diploma in 1965 . He then continued his studies in theology, classical philology and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Thessaloniki . In 1968 he was at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn with magna cum laude to the Dr. phil. and in 1981 at the Theological Faculty of the University of Thessaloniki with summa cum laude Dr. theol. PhD.

In 1971 he received a research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In October 1971 he received the position of a research assistant in the Old Catholic Seminar of the University of Bonn; as early as 1972 he received a teaching position for orthodox theology there.

In 1975 he qualified as a professor at the University of Bern for the subject “Greek Patristic and Byzantine Intellectual History”, and in 1976 he was re-qualified and appointed as a private lecturer at the University of Bonn. In 1978 he was appointed adjunct professor in Bonn and worked as a senior assistant until his appointment to Munich .

From 1984 until his retirement in 2005 he was the holder of the then newly founded chair for Orthodox theology and head of the institute of the same name at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Not least because of his efforts, the institute developed into the training facility for Orthodox theology at the University of Munich . This was headed by Nikolaou as chairman of the joint commission, the departmental council of the training institution, from 1997 to 2003.

From 2001 to 2005 Nikolaou was on the board of the “Center for Ecumenical Research” at the University of Munich, of which he is one of the founders. In 1995 he was visiting professor at the Ecumenical Institute of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Salzburg .

As part of the Socrates program , he has been organizing exchanges with the theological faculty of the University of Thessaloniki since the mid-1990s. Since 2000 he has also been a co-organizer of the lecturer exchange with the Theological Faculty of the Babeș-Bolyai University ( Cluj-Napoca ) in Romania .

In 1987 Nikolaou founded the magazine “Orthodox Forum. Journal of the Institute for Orthodox Theology of the University of Munich ”, which he published until 2005. Since 1993 he has published the series of Munich university publications "Publications of the Institute for Orthodox Theology" (VIOTh) and since 1995 the series "Liturgical Texts and Studies".

He is married and has two children.

Memberships

Nikolaou is a member of various scientific societies and commissions at home and abroad. As a representative of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, he was and is a member of various ecumenical commissions; z. B .:

Honors

Publications (selection)

  • Theodor Nikolaou: The envy of Johannes Chrysostomus. Taking into account Greek philosophy . Bonn 1968.
  • Theodor Nikolaou: The free will and the affects of the soul in Clement of Alexandria . Thessaloniki 1981 (Greek, docplayer.gr ).
  • Theodor Nikolaou: Hē sēmasia tēs eikonas sto mystērio tēs oikonomias. Paterikes martyries . Ekdoseis P. Pournara, Thessaloniki 1992, ISBN 960-242-044-8 (German: The meaning of the icon in the mystery of the economy of salvation . Translated by K. Nikolakopoulos).
  • Theodor Nikolaou: Asceticism, monasticism and mysticism in the Orthodox Church . Eos-Verlag, St. Otilien 1996, ISBN 3-88096-429-7 .
  • Theodor Nikolaou: The Orthodox Church in the field of tension between culture, nation and religion . Eos-Verlag, St. Otilien 2005, ISBN 3-8306-7219-5 .
  • Theodor Nikolaou: Πληθωνικά [Plethōnika = plethon studies] . Vanias-Verlag, Thessaloniki 2005, ISBN 960-288-130-0  ( formally incorrect ) . .
  • Theodor Nikolaou: Μετουσία Θεοῦ. Φιλοσοφικές καί θεολογικές μελέτες. [Participation in God. Philosophical and Theological Studies] Center for patristic Publications, Athens 2011, ISBN 978-960-98499-8-2 .
  • Theodor Nikolaou: Faith and Research. Selected studies on Greek patristicism and Byzantine intellectual history (= publications of the Institute for Orthodox Theology 10). EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2012, ISBN 978-3-8306-7533-4 .

literature

  • Konstantin Nikolakopoulos (ed.): Orthodox theology between East and West. Festschrift (I) for Professor Theodor Nikolaou . Lembeck-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-87476-401-X .
  • Konstantin Nikolakopoulos: Professor Theodor Nikolaou - 60 years . ( kokid.de ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) - keynote lecture).
  • Chirilă Ioan u. a. (Ed.): Universitatea "Babeş-Bolyai" Cluj-Napoca, Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă: Doctores Honoris Causa: Testimonia Oecumenica. Cluj-Napoca 2011, ISBN 978-606-607-001-0 . (on Theodor Nikolaou: pp. 145–195).
  • Konstantin Nikolakopoulos (Ed.): The students honor their teacher. Festschrift (II) on Theodor Nikolaou's 70th birthday (March 24, 2012) (= Orthodox Forum. 25, Issue 1–2, 2011, ISSN  0933-8586 ) St. Ottilien 2012.
  • A documentation of the 70th birthday celebration (April 27, 2012) for Prof. Theodor Nikolaou, orthodox forum 26 (2012) pp. 253–280.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ B. Federal Cross of Merit for Professor Th. Nikolaou . In: Orthodox Forum. Journal of the Institute for Orthodox Theology at the University of Munich . Volume 28, Issue 1 + 2, 2014, ISSN  0933-8586 , p. 208 ( academia.edu [accessed March 20, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Nikolaou, Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Θεόδωρος, Νικολάου (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek Orthodox theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Anavra , Magnesia Prefecture, Greece