Ulrich Köpf

Ulrich Köpf (born April 19, 1941 in Stuttgart ) is a German church historian .

Life

Köpf studied Protestant theology and classical philology at the University of Tübingen . With an investigation into the beginnings of the theological philosophy of science in the 13th century , he received his doctorate in 1972 at the University of Zurich under Gerhard Ebeling . In 1978 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich with a study of religious experience in the theology of Bernhard von Clairvaux . From 1981 to 1986 he was Professor of Church History at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Munich, from 1986 to 2007 Professor of Modern Church History and at the same time head of the Institute for the Late Middle Ages and Reformation at the University of Tübingen. His successor was Volker Leppin in 2010 . Since 1986 Köpf has been the scientific director of the Weimar edition of Martin Luther's works . From 1990 to 2009 he was head of a research center at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences that compiled the register of Martin Luther's writings.

Publications (selection)

• The beginnings of theological philosophy of science in the 13th century. Mohr, Tübingen 1974, ISBN 3-16-136072-9 .
• Religious experience in the theology of Bernhard von Clairvaux. Mohr, Tübingen 1980, ISBN 3-16-142462-X .
• (Ed.): Theologians of the Middle Ages: an introduction. Knowledge Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-534-14815-0 .
• with Sönke Lorenz , Dieter R. Bauer (ed.): The University of Tübingen between the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-5514-2 .
• (Ed.): The University of Tübingen between Orthodoxy, Pietism and Enlightenment. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7995-5525-8 .
• Martin Luther: the reformer and his work. Reclam, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-15-011042-3 .

swell

• In the footsteps of Martin Luther. University of Erfurt, press release no .: 207/2009, November 19, 2009.
• Protestant church historian at the Tübingen University Library
• http://www.beck-shop.de/Koepf-Wwissenschaftliche-Theologie-Kirchenleitung/productview.aspx?product=417498
• Martin Luther and the Philosophy University of Innsbruck, June 24, 2009.

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrich Köpf in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Review Martin Luther. The reformer and his work at Andruck - The magazine for political literature , Deutschlandfunk
• Book review The University of Tübingen between Orthodoxy, Pietism and Enlightenment. at the Swabian Heimatbund eV