Thomas R. Karmann

Thomas R. Karmann (born October 3, 1973 in Straubing ) is a German church historian.

Life

From 1980 to 1984 he attended the Theodor Eckert primary school in Deggendorf , where he was a member of the parish council of the Assumption from 1990 to 1994, and from 1984 to 1993 the St. Michaels grammar school in the Metten monastery . After graduating from high school in 1993 with the advanced subjects Greek and Latin, he studied classical antiquity (Greek, Latin, ancient history and archeology) at the University of Regensburg from 1993 to 1995 . He completed his studies (1995–2001) in philosophy and theology in Regensburg with a degree in theology. The diploma thesis Between Arianism and New Orthodoxy (supervisor: Norbert Brox ; second reviewer: Franz Dünzl ) was awarded the prize for excellent academic achievements of the Alumni Association of the University of Regensburg in 2001. From 2000 to 2008 he was a member of the Deggendorf City Council and municipal child and youth representative. From 2001 to 2006 he was a research assistant at the Chair for Ancient Church History and Patrology at the University of Regensburg ( Ferdinand R. Prostmeier and Andreas Merkt ). As a representative of the Malteser Hilfsdienst for the district Deggendorf he worked from 2001 to 2009. From 2003 to 2010 he was a member of the council of the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Regensburg and spokesman for the academic mid-level staff. After graduating in 2006 as Dr. theol. at the University of Regensburg he was academic advisor a. Currently at the Chair for Ancient Church History and Patrology with Andreas Merkt. From 2006 to 2010 he was a member of the parish council of St. Martin, Deggendorf. The dissertation Meletius of Antioch and the beginnings of Neo-Romanism (supervisor: Andreas Merkt; reviewer: Karl Hausberger ) was awarded the prize for work in the field of ecumenical theology of Dr. Kurt Hellmich Foundation honored. From 2010 to 2011 he represented Alfons Fürst at the chair for Ancient Church History, Patrology and Christian Archeology at the University of Münster . He was awarded the prize for good teaching from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art (interdisciplinary seminar for mid-level faculty in Regensburg's Catholic Theological Faculty) in 2011. He represented Andreas Merkt from 2011 to 2012 at the Chair for Ancient Church History and Patrology at the University of Regensburg. From 2013 to 2014 he represented the chair for Ancient Church History and Patrology at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg ( Thomas Böhm ). As a university assistant (2014–2017) at the Institute for Biblical Studies and Historical Theology at the University of Innsbruck ( Günther Wassilowsky ), he was a representative for ancient church history and patrology. From 2014 to 2018 he was the library officer at the Institute for Biblical Studies and Historical Theology at the University of Innsbruck. From 2016 to 2017 he represented the professorship for church history and patrology (Günther Wassilowsky). After completing his habilitation in 2016 at the University of Regensburg (habilitation thesis: “Studies on the Reception of Matthian Genealogy in Patristic Literature”; specialist mentor: Andreas Merkt, Tobias Nicklas , Joseph Verheyden ; other reviewers: Johannes Heinrich Hofmann , Johan Leemans ), granting of the license to teach 2017 for historical theology (ancient church history and patrology) and appointment as private lecturer , he became professor for church history and patrology at the University of Innsbruck in 2017 as successor to Günther Wassilowsky. He received the Armin Schmitt Foundation Prize for biblical text research in 2017 for his habilitation thesis.

He is married to Kerstin Karmann and currently lives in Rosenheim . His main research interests are the theology of the old church, the reception of biblical writings in early Christianity, ancient Christian apocrypha, Marcion of Sinope and the emergence of the Christian Bible, Antioch on the Orontes as the center of ancient Christianity, Origen of Alexandria and its reception history and early Christian asceticism and late ancient monasticism.

Web links

• University of Innsbruck