Biography

Sine 2016| Member of the executive board of the Einstein Centre "Chronoi" for Ancient Studies to Deal with Time and Awareness of Time in Ancient Civilizations

Since 2004| Chair of Ancient Christianity, Humboldt University of Berlin

2006-2010| President, Humboldt University of Berlin

2000-2004| Chair of Historical Theology (Early Christianity and the Middle Ages) at Heidelberg University

1994-2000| Chair of Church History at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena

| Calls to Chicago (2016: Christian Literature at the University of Chicago and Dean of the Chicago Divinity School), Tübingen (2003), Munich (2010) and Oxford (2011: Regius Chair of Divinity) were declined.

1994| Habilitation, “Arianismus und Neunizänismus im lateinischen Westen“

| Ordination

1991| Ph.D., University of Tübingen, “Valentinus Gnosticus?”

1988-1994| Lecturer at the Chair of Patristics, University of Tübingen

1981-1987| Studies of Theology, Classics, Archeology and Philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Munich, the Pontifical University San Anselmo, Rome (Jerusalem Program) and the University of Tübingen

2017| Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

2012| Member of the Academia Ambrosiana (Milan)

| Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz

2007| Corresponding Member of the German Archeological Institute

| Member of the Academia Europaea

2006| Member of the European Academy of Arts and Sciences

2003| Corresponding Member of the Heidelberger Academy of Sciences and Humanities

1999| Ordinary Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities

1996| Ordinary Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Erfurt and the Commission for Studies in Antiquity at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities

2016| EURIAS-Fellowship 2016/2017 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University Jerusalem, acacdemic year 2016/2017, returning

2013| Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford

2012| Martin Buber Senior Fellow, Hebrew University Jerusalem

2011 | Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton

2010 | Stewart Visiting Research Scholar in the Humanities Council, Programm of Jewish Studies, University of Princeton

2009 | Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Oxford

2005| Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University Jerusalem

1999| Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Hebrew University Jerusalem

1998| Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Berlin Institute for Advanced Study)

2017| Advisoray Board of the Max Weber Kolleg in Erfurt

2014| Member of the Board of Trustees of the German-Israeli Future Forum

2013| Knight of Justice of the Johanniter Order

2011| Member of the Academic Prize Committee of the Holberg International Memorial Prize

| Member of the Board of Trustees of the Friede Springer Foundation

2010| Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hermann Kunst Foundation for the Promotion of New Testament Textual Research

2005| Member in the Collegiate of the Guardini College of the Guardini Foundation, Berlin

| Representative of the German Research Community in the Standing Committee for the Humanities der European Science Foundation

| Member of the Presidential Council of the charity “Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe”

| Member of the Directorate of the "August Boeckh Antiquity Centre" at the Humboldt University in Berlin

2004| Member of the Theology Chamber of the Evangelical Church in Germany; Chairman since 2010

2002| Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

1999| Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Institute “Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin”

| Member of the Board of the Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft für Theologie (German Theology Society)

| Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the German Evangelical Institute for the Study of Antiquities in the Holy Land (Jerusalem)

1998| Member of the Ecumenical Working Group of Protestant and Catholic Theologians in Germany

1995| Member of the Pfullingen Theological Working Group

2016| Dean of Theological Department of Berlin's Humboldt University

2016| Dean of the Johanniter Order

2015/2016| Vice Dean of Theological Department of Berlin's Humboldt University

2015| Head of the Institute for Church and Judaism - An Organisation of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz in the Theological Department of Berlin's Humboldt University

2014| Chairman of the Advisory Scientific Council of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

2013| Spokesman for the interdisciplinary "Quote and Paraphrase" working group at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities

2012| Vice President der Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities

2011| Head of the Academy Project “Alexandrian and Antiochian Biblical Exegesis”

2010| Advisory Board of the Israel Democracy Institute

| Chairman of the Chamber for Theology of the Evangelical Church in Germany

2006| Senator of the Leibniz Society

| President of the Humboldt University in Berlin

2005| Spokesman of the interdisciplinary working groups "Welt als Bild" and "Bildkulturen" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities

2003| Secretary of the Humanities Class at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities and Chairman of its Turfan Commission

2001| Ephorus of the Theological Institute in Heidelberg

1999| Chairman of the Foundation Board of the "Gertrud and Alexander Böhlig Foundation" in Stifterverband (innovation agency for the German science system)

1999| Head of the Academy project "The Greek Christian Writers"

1995| Ephorus of the theological seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia

2017| Honorary Doctorate, Pontifical Lateran University, Patristic Institute Augustinianum, Rome, Italy

2011| Honorary Doctorate, University of Oslo, Norway

2010| Theological Award of the Salzburg University Week

2007| Honorary Doctorate, University of Sibiu, Romania

2001| Leibniz-Prize, DFG (German National Research Fund)

1994| Hanns-Lilje-Prize for the Advancement of Theology, Göttingen Academy of Sciences (1994)

1979| Third Prize, Competition on German History, Prize of the Federal President of Germany