Prof. Dr. Wolfram Kinzig

In his research Wolfram Kinzig focuses on agents, dependants and structures of dependency in the late-antique and early medieval Church in the Latin west (including North Africa). In particular, he is interested in:

• Authority and resistance among clergy
• Doctrinal norms and their implementation
• Ethical norms and their implementation
• Church as social space
• The Church, jurisdiction, and secular governance
• The Church as economical agent

In these areas particular attention is given to the following agents and dependants: (1) bishops; (2) priests; (3) offices administering the Church’s economic resources such as deacons; (4) the role of women within the Church hierarchy; (5) the laity both as agents and dependants.

8 books (1 in 2 vols., 1 in 4 vols.), 12 edited volumes, 95 academic papers, 55 reviews; numerous national and international lectures and presentations; 10 completed and 3 ongoing doctorates as first and second supervisor; 2 completed and 2 ongoing habilitations as mentor.

1991
Habilitation and Venia legendi in Church history, University of Heidelberg, Germany

1985–1988
Ph.D., University of Heidelberg (Germany), Christ Church, Oxford, (UK), Trinity College, Cambridge (UK)

1978–1985
Church and teaching diploma studies in Protestant theology and Latin, University of Heidelberg (Germany) and Université de Lausanne (Switzerland)

since 1996
Professor for Church History, University of Bonn, Germany

1992–1995
Senior Research Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge, UK

1988–1992
Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK

since 2010
Member of the German-French Graduate School of the Franco-German University (Bonn – Strassburg – Berne – Brussels – Luxembourg – Liège) "Foule et intégration dans les sociétés antiques"

since 2008
Founding member of the Theologisches Forum (with Rainer Kampling and Susanne Talabardon), funded by the Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart and
the Evangelische Akademie, Berlin

since 2005
Founding member and spokesperson of the Zentrum für Religion und Gesellschaft [Centre for Religion and Society], University of Bonn, Germany

since 2005
Member of the Bonn-Oxford research group with Günter Bader, John Barton, Oliver Davies, Paul Fiddes, Jochen Flebbe, Morwenna Ludlow, Charlotte Methuen, Michael Meyer-Blanck, Robert Morgan, Cornelia Richter, Jochen Schmidt, and Michael Wolter, partly funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

1999–2002
Member of the Special Research Area (SFB) 534 "Judentum – Christentum: Konstituierung und Differenzierung in Antike und Gegenwart", funded by the DFG

1992–2017
Member of the international research group "Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian" together with Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Stefan Rebenich (Berne), Christoph Riedweg (Zurich), Adolf Martin Ritter (Heidelberg), and Markus Vinzent (King's College, London), supported by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and funded by the DFG  and the Swiss National Foundation (SNF)

1992–1995
Member of the research project "The Rise, Triumph, and Fall of Early Christianity", together with Catherine Hezser, Keith Hopkins, Seth R. Schwartz, Markus Vinzent, King's College, Cambridge