Prof Christian Wiese

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Professor of Jewish History (Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies - Centre for German-Jewish Studies)

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Biography

Prof Wiese was educated in Protestant theology, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the Universities of Tübingen, Bonn, and Heidelberg and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; he earned his PhD in 1997 at the University of Frankfurt am Main and his "Habilitation" in Jewish Studies in 2006 at Erfurt University. Before coming to Sussex, he held positions as an assistant professor in Jewish History at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institute for German-Jewish History (University of Duisburg) and as an associate professor in Modern Jewish History and Thought at the University of Erfurt. He has been visiting faculty at Trinity College (Dublin), at McGill University in Montreal and Distinguished visiting professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. His activities included the organisation of major international conferences (e.g. on German Zionism, on Modern Jewish Historiography and on 350 years of American-Jewish History) as well as the participation in organizing exhibitions (e.g. on Leo Baeck at the Frankfurt Jewish Museum in 2001). Since 1995, he has translated numerous books on Jewish history and thought from English into German. Since 2007 he is the co-editor of the Brill series "Jewish Thought and Philosophy" (with Elliot Wolfson, NYU and Hartwig Wiedebach, ETH Zürich), since 2011 he is also the editor of the book series "Mar'ot. Die jüdische Moderne in Quellen und Werken" (Walter de Gruyter).

Since October 2010 Christian Wiese is the Martin Buber Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Goerthe University Frankfurt am Main. He continues serving as Visiting Research Professor at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies.

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Visiting Research Professor at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies

Christian Wiese is the Martin Buber Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt