Christoph J. Markschies#
| Membership Number: | 2434 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2007 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.antikes-christentum.de/de/team/mitarbeitende/christoph-markschies |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2010 Stewart Visiting Research Scholar in the Humanities Council, Program of Jewish Studies, Princeton University
- 2006-2010 President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
- 2005-2006 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
- 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
- 1996 Full Member of the Academy of Sciences in Erfurt
- 1999 Full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize awarded by the DFG (German Research Foundation)
- 2003 Corresponding Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2006 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2007 Honoraris Doctorate of the Faculty of Eastern Orthodox Theology, "Lucian Blaga" University of Hermannstadt/Sibiu
- 2010 Salzburg University Prize
- 2011 Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Oslo
- 2012 Member of the Academia Ambrosiana (Milan)
- 2012 Vice President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
