Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele

Wolf-Friedrich Schäufele (* 1967 in Karlsruhe ) is a German Protestant theologian.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1986 at Hammonense grammar school and doing military service in 1986/1987, he studied Protestant theology, Latin philology and biochemistry in Tübingen , Heidelberg and Mainz from 1987 to 1993 . From 1994 to 1998 he was a research assistant at the Department of Church History and Territorial Church History of the Department of Protestant Theology at the University of Mainz . After graduating as Dr. theol. In 1997, from 1998 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the chair for historical theology of the seminar for theology and its didactics at the University of Cologne . From 2001 to 2007 he was a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for European History , Department of Western Religious History. After completing his habilitation in 2005 in the history of church and dogma at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Mainz, he has been teaching as a professor (W3) for church history at the Philipps University of Marburg since 2007 . In 2011 he declined a call to the chair for Church History of Modern Times at the University of Erlangen (successor to Berndt Hamm ).

His main research interests are research interests and the history of churches and theology of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, with a special focus on the Reformation. He is a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse .

Fonts (selection)

• Christoph Matthäus Pfaff and the Church Union efforts of the Corpus Evangelicorum 1717–1726 . Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2485-5 .
• The "pessimism" of the Middle Ages . Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08972-1 .
• "Defecit Ecclesia". Studies on the idea of ​​decay in the view of church history in the Middle Ages . Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-3647-0 .
• Christian mysticism . Göttingen 2017, ISBN 3-7887-3163-X .

Web links

• uni-marburg.de