Wolfgang Wischmeyer

Wolfgang Wischmeyer (born October 5, 1944 in Kassel ) is a German Protestant theologian . From 1996 to 2013 he was professor for church history , Christian archeology and church art at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna .

Life

Wolfgang Wischmeyer studied art history , classical and Christian archeology as well as Protestant theology in Freiburg , Göttingen and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1973 with the work The archaeological and literary sources on the church history of Apulia et Calabria, Lucania et Bruttii . In 1977 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg with the text Studies on Sarcophagus Lids . In 1992 he was appointed adjunct professor in Heidelberg. After working as a pastor of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg, he was full professor at the University of Vienna since 1996. He retired in 2013 .

In 1997 Wolfgang Wischmeyer became a member of the Church Fathers Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 1999 chairman of the Southeast Central European Faculty Conference. He is a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church HB and a member of the Theological Committee of the Evangelical Church A. and HB in Austria

In 2017 Wolfgang Wischmeyer received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class .

Wolfgang Wischmeyer's research areas are ancient Christianity and the old church . The main focus of publications and work is the Greek and Latin epigraphy of late antiquity , the acts of martyrs , ancient calendars (especially the chronograph from 354 - the so-called calendar of Filocalus ), the role of magic in ancient Christianity and early Christian iconography .

Fonts (selection)

• From Golgotha ​​to the Ponte Molle. Studies on the Social History of the Church in the 3rd Century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, ISBN 978-3-525-55157-8 .
• The 354 calendar manual - the Filocalus chronograph. The picture part of the chronograph. Verlag Holzhausen, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902976-29-1 (with Johannes Divjak ) (digital copy : Volume 1 - The picture part of the chronograph ).
• The 354 calendar manual - the Filocalus chronograph. The text part - lists of the administration. Verlag Holzhausen, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902976-30-7 (with Johannes Divjak ) (digitized: Volume 2 - The text part - Lists of the administration ).
• Martyr literature. Edited, translated, commented and introduced by Wolfgang Wischmeyer and Hans Reinhard Seeliger , De Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-032178-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Wischmeyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wischmeyer's biography on the homepage of the University of Vienna
• List of publications (as of 2016)