Hubert Wolf

Hubert Wolf ( * November 26, 1959 in Words to live by, Ostalb ) is a German church historian. Wolf is Leibniz Prize 2003.

Life

Wolf was born in 1959 in the Swabian Words to live by. He studied after high school in 1978 at the University of Tübingen and Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich Catholic theology with a focus on medieval and modern history of the Church and later exegesis of the Old and New Testament. In 1983 he passed his diploma and continued his education at the seminary. Wolf received the priesthood in 1985 and until 1990 in the parish ministry of his home diocese of Rottenburg- Stuttgart. In the same year he was with the work of heretics or teachers of the Church? The Tübingen theologian Johannes Kuhn (1806-1887) received his doctorate in church political disputes of his time at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. In 1991 he habilitated with the work of the imperial church policy of the House of Lorraine ( 1680-1715 ); a Habsburg Sekundogenitur in the kingdom? specialist Medieval and Modern Church History at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. In 1992 he was appointed a full professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. In 1999 Wolf joined as a C4 professor at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster and was here as a successor to Arnold Angenendts also director of the Department of Medieval and Modern Church History at the Catholic Faculty. Since 2002 he has been Head of the DFG long-term project "Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index ." Since 2008 he has been Head of the DFG long-term project " Critical online edition of the Nunciature Eugenio Pacelli's Reports ( 1917-1929 ) ".

Work

Hubert Wolf is regarded as an outstanding representative of the younger generation of church historians, who brought out the tray from the strict disciplinary ghetto and have incorporated into larger interdisciplinary contexts of politics and history of science. His primary research areas include the representation of the rich ecclesiastical contexts, and the evaluation and development of the stored archives of the Inquisition in Rome and Papal Congregation of the Index. Since 1992, ie before the official opening of the archives in 1999 by Pope John Paul II, had wolf access to the files. In the same year he was appointed to the international panel of scientific advisory board of the Archives of the Congregation. A random acts Fund led to his scientific book The nuns of Sant'Ambrogio. Content is the same scandal in the Roman monastery mid-19th century, which had a significant impact on church history. The book received strong press coverage, and came into the nonfiction best list of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and North German Broadcasting in May 2013 at No. 1

Awards and Memberships

In 2003, Wolf as a third theologian to the German-speaking highly doped with 1.55 million euro research award, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft ( DFG). 2004 Wolf received the Communicator Award Science Award of the Donors' Association for German Science. Since 2003, Wolf honorary citizen of the community Wört. In 2006 he was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the city of Mainz and the International Gutenberg Society. Wolf is a member of the theologian connection A.V. Albertus Magnus Tübingen and an honorary member of the Catholic Student Association KDSt.V. Winfridia ( Wrocław ) Minster in the CV.

Publications (selection)

  • Inquisition, Index, Censorship: Knowledge Cultures in Modern Times in conflict, Ferdinand Schöningh Publisher Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-77670-3
  • Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index. Basic research: 1814-1917; Introduction 1814-1917, Ferdinand Schöningh Publisher Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-72950-0
  • Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index. Basic research: 1814-1917; Volume I: Roman Books bans, Ferdinand Schöningh Publisher Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71722-7
  • Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index. Basic research: 1814-1917; Volume II: Systematic repertory to book censorship from 1814 to 1917. Congregation of the Index 1814-1917 ( part two volumes), Ferdinand Schöningh Publisher Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71387-6
  • Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index. Basic research: 1814-1917; Volume III: prosopography ( Part Two volumes), Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 3-506-71386-8
  • Index. The Vatican and the forbidden books, C. H. Beck, 2006, ISBN 3-406-54371-5
  • Pope and the devil. The archives of the Vatican and the Third Reich, CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-406-57742-3
  • The affair Sprollenhaus - The Rottenburger episcopal election in 1926/27 and their backgrounds, Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0830-8
  • Roman Inquisition and the Congregation of the Index. Basic Research 1701-1813; 5 volumes, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2009 and 2010. A register tape in 2010 was in preparation.
  • As editor: anti-modernism and modernism in the Catholic Church. Contributions to the history of theology before the Second Vatican Council, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1998, ISBN 3-506-73762-7
  • Publisher along with Judith Schepers: In wild rampant hunting for something new. 100 years modernism and anti-modernism in the Catholic Church, Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 2010 ISBN 978-3-506-76511-6
  • The nuns of Sant'Ambrogio. A true story. C. H. Beck, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-64522-8. ( Review Süddeutsche Zeitung).
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