Ulrich Schmid (theologian)

Ulrich B. Schmid (born May 31, 1962 in Stuttgart ) is a German Protestant theologian and university professor.

Live and act

Schmid studied Protestant theology from 1982 to 1989 at the universities of Tübingen and Münster . The first church service examination in 1989 was followed by studies of philosophy , ancient history and Byzantine studies in Münster from 1989 to 1992 . The vicariate followed from 1993 to 1995 and then in 1995 the second church service examination.

In the academic field, he received his doctorate theologiae in 1995 from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Münster . He continued his university career from 1996 to 1998 with a habilitation grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) . From 1997 to 1998 he worked as a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), from 1998 to 2000 at the Free University of Amsterdam .

At the Theological Seminary Bethel habilitation he did with the adopted in 2002 and 2005 in the Herder publishing house published font Unum ex quattuor. A History of the Latin Tatian Lore . In 2008 he became an adjunct professor at the Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel .

Since 2002 he has been a research assistant at various institutions in Amsterdam, Münster, Wuppertal, and Birmingham. Since 2015 he has been a research assistant at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .

Ulrich Schmid's areas of expertise are the New Testament , church history in general and the Old Church , such as Marcion , Tatian , theology of the Middle Ages ( gospel harmonies ) and the field of text research ( Greek and Latin tradition of the Christian Bible ) in particular.

In 1999 he received the Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler Research Award from the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences . He is a member (as of 2019) in the following scientific associations: Kerkhistorisch Gezelschap, Society of Biblical Literature , Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas , Committee of the International Greek New Testament Project .

Ulrich Schmid is married and has one child.

Works (selection)

• Marcion and his Apostolos. Reconstruction and historical classification of the Marcionite edition of St. Paul (= work on New Testament text research, volume 25). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 978-3-11-088934-5 .
• Unum ex quattuor. A history of the Latin Tatian tradition (= from the history of the Latin Bible, vol. 37). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 978-3-451-21955-9
• Old Testament and New Testament Versions of the Mosaic Law: The Intersection of Oral and Written Tradition. In: Melvin KH Peters (ed.): XIV Congress of the IOSCS, Helsinki, 2010. SBL, Atlanta 2013, pp. 587-604.
• Marcion and the Textual History of Romans: Editorial Activity and Early Editions of the New Testament. In: Hugh AG Houghton, Laurence Mellerin, Markus Vinzent (eds.): Papers presented at the Sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2011, Volume 2: Biblical Quotations in Patristic Texts (= Studia Patristica 64). Peeters, Leuven 2013, pp. 99–113.
• Tatian's Diatessaron. In: Michael W. Holmes , Bart D. Ehrman (Eds.): The Text of the New Testament in Contemporary Research: Essays on the Status Quaestionis. Brill, Leiden 2013, pp. 115-142.
• The Bible Online - Reflections on the Concept of an Interactive Edition. In: Gesa Dane, Jörg Jungmayr , Marcus Schotte (eds.): Paths to world literature. Comparative Perspectives in Edition Studies. Weidler, Berlin 2015, pp. 23–42.
• Studies on the Text of the Apocalypse. Together with Marcus Sigismund, Martin Karrer (eds.), De Gruyter, Berlin 2015.

Web links

• Photograph of the portrait of Ulrich Schmid [1]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Text discussion
2. ^ Academy of Sciences in Göttingen: Apl. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid .
3. ^ University of Münster: Apl. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid .
4. ↑ Church University of Wuppertal / Bethel: apl. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid .