Wolfgang Klausnitzer

Wolfgang Klausnitzer (born October 8, 1950 in Bad Windsheim ) is a German fundamental theologian .

Life

Klausnitzer studied theology and philosophy at the University of Innsbruck and spent semesters free at the Institut catholique de Paris and in Oxford . After he was ordained a priest in Bamberg in 1976, he became a priest in Innsbruck in 1978 with the fundamental theological dissertation Papal Infallibility with Newman and Döllinger. A historical-systematic comparison to the doctor of theology doctorate. After a one-year study visit to the Sophia University in Tokyo in 1978/79, he was employed as a pastor in Schwarzenbach an der Saale , Rehau and Nuremberg and released in 1980 to complete the novitiate in the Jesuit order, which he broke off after the first year. In 1981 he returned to the service of the Archdiocese of Bamberg and became subregens in the local seminary, which he headed from 1989 to 1994 as Regens . In 1986 he received his habilitation in Innsbruck. For his habilitation thesis The Papal Office in the Dispute between Lutherans and Catholics. Main focus from the Reformation to the present (1987) Klausnitzer received the Karl Rahner Prize . Since 1994 he has been Professor of Fundamental Theology and Ecumenical Theology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg . In 1996 he became cathedral capitular and ecumenical officer of the archdiocese of Bamberg.

Since March 1990 he has been a part-time professor for fundamental theology at the Pontifical Philosophical-Theological College Benedict XVI. Heiligenkreuz , where he was appointed visiting professor for an unlimited period in 2007 and heads the Institute for Dogmatics and Fundamental Theology there. From October 1, 2007 until his retirement on April 1, 2016, Klausnitzer was also professor of fundamental theology and comparative religious studies at the Catholic theological faculty of the University of Würzburg .

Web links and sources

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Klausnitzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Curriculum vitae (PDF; 100 KB) on the website of the Heiligenkreuz University of Applied Sciences, as of 2016.
• Wolfgang Klausnitzer on the website of the University of Würzburg
• Ludwig K. Walter: Biograms for the teaching staff of the theological faculty in Würzburg . Second volume, part 1, p. 85.
• Publications by Wolfgang Klausnitzer (selection) (PDF; 82 KB)