Wolfgang Weiß (theologian, 1957)

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Wolfgang Weiß (born April 11, 1957 in Osterhofen ) is a German church historian .

Life

From 1979, Weiß studied theology and history in Passau and Würzburg . From 1986 he worked at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg as a research associate in the Church and Rural Society project in Main Franconia from the Reformation to the most recent, funded by the German Research Foundation . From 1988 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Theology at the University of Würzburg. In the doctoral thesis published in 1993 Church in the upheaval of secularization. The Würzburg Church in the first Bavarian period (1802 / 1803-1806) he explained how, with the transfer of the Würzburg Monastery to Bavaria and as a result of the massive intervention by the Bavarian government in church affairs, the Würzburg diocesan instructions, after a phase of internal uncertainty, were given a new, gained more popular church, but also anti-enlightenment and ultramontane profile. The dissertation was awarded a prize from the Lower Franconian Memorial Year Foundation for Science.

In 1998, Wolfgang Weiß received his habilitation thesis on Modernism Controversy and Theological Controversy. The Catholic-Theological Faculty Würzburg in the church political and theological debates at the beginning of the 20th century the teaching qualification in the subject "Church history of the Middle Ages and modern times with special consideration of the Franconian church history". In this study, he sheds light on the extremely violent conflicts between progressive and conservative forces within the faculty and the Würzburg Church in the years between the indexing of Herman Schell (1898) and the First World War.

Since August 1999 he has been a professor of Franconian church history and recent church history at the University of Würzburg.

Weiß is a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Oeno-Danubia Passau and KDStV Cheruscia Würzburg , both in the CV .

In March 2017 he received the Papal Knightly Order of St. Sylvester ( New Year's Eve Order ).

Web links

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  1. ^ Website of the professorship for Franconian church history at the University of Würzburg
  2. ↑ oz: Papal New Year's Eve Order for Prof. Dr. Wolfgang White. Passauer Neue Presse, March 6, 2017, accessed on March 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME White, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Roman Catholic church historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterhofen