Projects
Get an overview of the current project at the Schlegel Professorship for Church History with a focus on Reformation and Enlightenment. If you would like to know more about the individual projects, please contact the responsible person.
Johann Gottfried Herder in Bückeburg
Vera Gretges’ dissertation project on Johann Gottfried Herder's period of activity in Bückeburg (1771-1776)
Vera Gretges’ doctoral project is dedicated to Johann Gottfried Herder’s period of activity in Bückeburg (1771-1776), where he initially worked as a consistorial councillor and senior preacher and eventually also held the office of superintendent. The activities of Herder, who had an extremely wide range of interests, are to be traced in their aspects of church history as well as cultural history. Among other things, the project focuses on Herder's preaching activities and analyses his correspondence with Countess Marie Barbara Eleonore of Schaumburg-Lippe.
Persecution of Anabaptists
Habilitation projekt by Dr. Aneke Dornbusch on networks of defamation and persecution of Anabaptists in southern Germany in the 16th century.
The project deals with the persecution of the Anabaptist religious minority in southern Germany in the first half of the 16th century.
It overcomes a purely comparative perspective between territories by bringing together sources from various archives and editions. The focus is on legal texts – the so-called mandates – and administrative correspondence from the southern German authorities.
In addition to a genre-critical examination of these sources, the project aims above all to reveal the discrepancy between the pretense and reality of Anabaptist persecution as reflected in the sources. By highlighting the significance of different power structures, conflicts and negotiation processes, existing narratives on Anabaptist persecution are questioned. The supra-regional cooperation between territories and cities is also being examined with the help of historical network analysis.
Jakob Strauß (ca. 1480–1527/32)
Dissertation project by Jan Huber on Jakob Strauß: A "mind of his own" among the preachers and publicists of the early Reformation.
Jakob Strauß (1480/1–1527/32) was one of the most prolific Reformation pamphleteers of the 1520s – but remains one of the most enigmatic and enigmatic theologians of his time to this day. As of right now, there is no detailed critical account of his life and work that fulfils current scholarly standards.
The focus of the project lies in tracing Jakob Strauss' work as a reformer and his theological positions in their various historical and biographical situations. The project will also investigate possible developments and dependencies of Strauß as well as his impact on later generations and the history of research on Strauß.