• Staff

    Alexander Heindel (WMA)

    Luisa Sophie Huß (Studentische Hilfskraft)

    Alina Marie Lenz (Studentische Hilfskraft)

    Aaron Seibel (Studentische Hilfskraft)

     

    Former Staff

    Dr. Jonas Frank (WMA)

    Felix Meuser (Studentische Hilfskraft)

    Christian Michael Westerheide (Studentische Hilfskraft)

    Jan Mark Budde (Studentische Hilfskraft)

  • Vita

    Since April 2026: Chair of Church History II: Reformation, Modern, and Contemporary Church History at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Münster

    10/2021-03/2026: Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology and Their Didactics at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Münster

    08/2023 “Second on the shortlist” in the appointment process for a W3 professorship in Church History (focus on Reformation history and the Middle Ages) at the University of Tübingen

    03/2021 “Second on the shortlist” in the appointment process for a “Professorship in Church History (W3) at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal / Bethel”

    10/2020–09/2021 Acting Chair at the University of Bonn

    06/2018–04/2019 Habilitation process at the University of Tübingen

    Habilitation thesis: Redaction and Memoria: The Images of Luther in the “Table Talks”

    04/2011–09/2020 Research Assistant at Augustana University in Neuendettelsau (Chair: Prof. Dr. Gury Schneider-Ludorff)

    2008–2010 Vicar in Trostberg

    2009–2010 Lecturer in Bavarian Church History at Augustana University Neuendettelsau

    2008 Ph.D. in Theology from Friedrich Schiller University in Jena

    Dissertation: Theology of the Trinity in Transition: A Genetic-Contextual Analysis of the So-Called Theologies of Peter Abaelard

    2004–2008 Research Assistant at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Department: Prof. Dr. Volker Leppin)

    1996–2004 Studied Protestant Theology in Neuendettelsau, Jerusalem (Dormition Abbey), Heidelberg, Jena, and Erlangen

  • Research Focus

    • Luther Reception and Luther Memoria
    • The Reformation: Theology, Plurality, and Confessional Cultures
    • Theology and Piety in the Late Middle Ages
    • Lutheran “Orthodoxy”
    • History of Theology in the Twelfth Century

  • Membership in scientific associations and projects

     

    Luther-Gesellschaft e.V. (board member)

    Verein für Reformationsgeschichte e.V.

    Theologischer Arbeitskreis für Reformationsgeschichtliche Forschungen (TARF)

    Verein für Westfälische Kirchengeschichte e.V. (extended board)

    Verein für Bayerische Kirchengeschichte e.V.

    Internationale Gesellschaft für Theologische Mediävistik

    Mediävistenverband e.V.

    Societas Mediaevistica Theologorum Evangelicorum

    Centrum für Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung (CMF), Münster

    Forum Studienjahr Jerusalem e.V.

    ELKB-Konvent der Pfarrerinnen und Pfarrer in der Wissenschaft

  • Projects

    • Digital edition of  “Apophthegmata Lutheri” (Lutheran table talks) – in preparation (DFG)
    • Religious and confessional cultural consolidation and the fluidisation of boundaries in early modern Europe: Martin Bucer's correspondence of the years 1534-1551 –  in preparation (Akademieprogramm 2028)
    • Companion to the Late Middle Ages (1300-1500) – with Prof Dr Ulrike Treusch (Giessen) and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Leppin (Yale)
    • Conference of the "Internationalen Gesellschaft für Theologische Mediävistik" (June 18-20, 2026): Theology and piety: late medieval perspectives in the field of tension between Latin and the vernacular - in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Ulrike Treusch (Giessen)
    • International Conference (June 2027) and Companion to the “Augsburger Reichstag” – with Prof. Dr. Bernward Schmidt