Christoph J. Markschies#
| Email: | christoph.markschies 'at' rz.hu-berlin.de |
| Membership Number: | 2434 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Username: | cmarkschies |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 01.01.2006 President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- Director of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy's project on "The Greek Christian Writers" and chairman of its commission on Turfan Studies
- 2005/ 2006 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
- Since 2004 Full Professor, Early Church History (Patristics), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- 2000 – 2004 Full Professor, Early Church History, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
- 1998 – 2000 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study) in Berlin and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University Jerusalem
- 1994 Full Professor, Church History, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
- 1994 Ordination
- 1994 Habilitation, Univ. Tübingen, Germany
- 1991 Doctorate, Univ. Tübingen, Germany
- 1988-1994 Lecturer, Univ. Tübingen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- early Christianity from its very beginnings until the Migration Period
- Gnosis
- Gnosticism
- religion in Late Antiquity
- expansion of Christianity in Late Antiquity
- history of Science
- Ancient Christian Apokrypha
- Christianization of Public Space
- Transformations of the Uses of the Body
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Hanns-Lilje-Preis of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Göttingen
- 2001 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the DFG (German Research Foundation)
- 2007 Honoraris Doctorate of the Faculty of Eastern Orthodox Theology, "Lucian Blaga" University of Hermannstadt/Sibiu
- 2010 Salzburg University Price
- Full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and head of its humanities division
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the Academia Europæa
- External member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences in Erfurt
- Foreign member of the Academy of Sciences in Erfurt
- Director of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy's project on "The Greek Christian Writers" and chairman of its commission on Turfan Studies
- Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute
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