Wolfram Kinzig

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Wolfram Kinzig (born March 7, 1960 in Mannheim ) is a German Protestant church historian . He holds the chair for old church at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

Life

From 1978 to 1985, Kinzig studied Protestant theology and Latin studies at the Universities of Heidelberg and Lausanne . Between 1985 and 1987 he completed a graduate degree at Christ Church (Oxford) with Maurice Wiles and at Trinity College (Cambridge) a . a. at Lionel Wickham. In 1988 he received his doctorate in theology at the theological faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. In 1991 he completed his habilitation there and in 1992 he was awarded the Venia Legendi for the subject of historical theology .

From 1988 to 1992 he was a Research Fellow at Peterhouse College and from 1992 to 1995 a Senior Research Fellow at King's College , Cambridge . Between 1992 and 1996 he worked as a private lecturer ( Heisenberg scholarship holder ) for historical theology at the theological faculty of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. In the 1996 summer semester, he succeeded Knut Schäferdiek for church history at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He is a founding member and spokesman (director) of the Center for Religion and Society .

Kinzig is married and has two children. His younger brother is the Tübingen criminologist and criminal law scientist Jörg Kinzig .

Research priorities

Kinzig's main research interests are early church creeds, early church exegesis and sermons, Cyril of Alexandria , Christian ideas about history, the history of Judeo-Christian relations, the history of universities and science (especially theology) in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary global Christianity.

Works (selection)

  • Harnack, Marcion and Judaism. In addition to an annotated edition of Adolf von Harnack's correspondence with Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Works on the history of the church and theology, edited by Wolfram Kinzig, Volker Leppin, Günther Wartenberg, Vol. 13, Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-374-02181-6
  • Faith in formulas. A Collection of Early Christian Creeds and Creed-related Texts. Edited, Annotated, and Translated by Wolfram Kinzig. Oxford Early Christian Texts, General Editors Gillian Clark, Andrew Louth, 4 vols., Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017, ISBN 978-0-19-826941-0
  • Persecution of Christians in Antiquity. CH Beck Wissen, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-74009-1

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personal data
SURNAME Kinzig, Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German church historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim