Irene Dingel (born April 26, 1956 in

Werdohl Werdohl () is a town in the district Märkischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Werdohl is located in the hills of the Sauerland, at a double meander of the river Lenne and its confluent, the Verse. The highest elevation is ...

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) is a German

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

and a Protestant theologian. Irene Dingel studied

Protestant theology Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

and

Romance studies Romance studies or Romance philology ( an, filolochía romanica; ca, filologia romànica; french: romanistique; eo, latinida filologio; it, filologia romanza; pt, filologia românica; ro, romanistică; es, filología románica) is an acade ...

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

and

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. From 1981 until 1982 she was an "Élève à titre étranger" at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de

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, and she also worked as an editor at the same time. Between 1982 and 1993 she was a scientific assistant at the theological faculty of

Heidelberg University } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

, where she also received several research grants. In 1986 she finished her doctorate in Heidelberg, which was followed by her

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

in 1993. After that Dingel was a substitute professor and then a professor of

historical theology Historical theology is the study of the history of Christian doctrine. Stanley Grenz, Grenz, Guretzki and Nordling describe it as, "The division of the theological discipline that seeks to understand and delineate how the church interpreted Scri ...

at the

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

until 1998). Since 1998 she has held the chair of ecclesiastical history and the history of dogma at the faculty of Protestant history of the

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (german: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany, named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. With approximately 32,000 stu ...

. In addition, Dingel became the head of the

Leibniz Institute of European History The Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz, Germany, is an independent, public research institute that carries out and promotes historical research on the foundations of Europe in the early and late Modern period. Though autonomous in ...

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in 2005, as director of the Department of Western Religious History. Dingel is a member of different academic boards and associations, including: * Member of the

Academy of Sciences and Literature The Academy of Sciences and Literature (german: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, AdW Mainz) is a scientific academy in Mainz, Germany. It was established in 1949 on an initiative of Alfred Döblin. The academy's goal is to su ...

* Board member of the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte * Member of the Academic Advisory Commission "Evangelische Kirchenordnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts" of the

Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (German: ''Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften''), established in 1909 in Heidelberg, Germany, is an assembly of scholars and scientists in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. The Academ ...

* Member of the Inter-Academy Management Committee of the Leibniz-Edition * Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the "Interdisziplinäres Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN)" at the

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* Member of the University Council of the

Since February 2012 Dingel is also a member of the

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. On June 27, 2015 she was awarded the "Hermann-Sasse-Preis" of the

Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church (german: Selbständige Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche, abbreviated SELK) is a confessional Lutheran church body of Germany. It is a member of the European Lutheran Conference and of the International ...

. Dingel's research interests are the history of the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

and of the

Confessionalization In Protestant Reformation history, confessionalization is the parallel processes of "confession-building" taking place in Europe between the Peace of Augsburg (1555) and the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). During this time prior to the Thirty Y ...

. Besides that she's also engaged in the research of the early

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Publications

Monographs (selection) * ''Concordia controversa. Die öffentlichen Diskussionen um das lutherische Konkordienwerk am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts'', Gütersloh 1996 (Quellen und Forschungen zur Reformationsgeschichte 63), . * ''Beobachtungen zur Entwicklung des französischen Vokabulars: Petit Larousse 1968 – Petit Larousse 1981'', Frankfurt/M. 1987 (Heidelberger Beiträge zur Romanistik 21), . * ''Reformation. Zentren – Akteure – Ereignisse'', Göttingen 2016, . * ''Robert Kolb, Irene Dingel, L’ubomír Batka (Hg.), The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology'', , Oxford 2014. * ''Irene Dingel und Christiane Tietz (Hg.), Säkularisierung und Religion. Europäische Wechselwirkungen'', Göttingen 2019, (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Abt. für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte, Beiheft 123). As editor (selection) * with Christiane Tietz: ''Das Friedenspotenzial von Religion'', Mainz 2009 (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Beiheft 78), . * with Matthias Schnettger: ''Auf dem Weg nach Europa. Deutungen, Visionen, Wirklichkeiten'', Göttingen 2010 (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Beiheft 82), . * with Christiane Tietz: ''Die politische Aufgabe von Religion. Perspektiven der drei monotheistischen Religionen'', Mainz 2011, . * ''Die Bekenntnisschriften der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche.'' Vollständige Neuedition, Göttingen 2014, . * ''Die Bekenntnisschriften der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche. Quellen und Materialien.'', Bd. I-II, Göttingen 2014, und . * ''Abraham Mangon, Kurze doch wahrhafftige Beschreibung der Geschichte der Reformierten in Frankfurt. 1554–1712,'' Leipzig 2004, . * with Henning P. Jürgens: ''Meilensteine der Reformation. Schlüsseldokumente der frühen Wirksamkeit Martin Luthers'', Gütersloh 2014, . * with Armin Kohnle: ''Gute Ordnung. Ordnungsmodelle und Ordnungsvorstellungen in der Reformationszeit'', Leipzig 2014, . * with Robert Kolb and L’ubomír Batka: ''The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther’s Theology'', Oxford 2014, . * with Volker Leppin: ''Das Reformatorenlexikon'', Darmstadt 2014, . * with Heinz Duchhardt: ''Die europäische Integration und die Kirchen II: Denker und Querdenker'', Göttingen 2012, . * with Matthias Schnettger: ''Auf dem Weg nach Europa. Deutungen, Visionen, Wirklichkeiten'', Göttingen 2010, . * with Heinrich Assel: ''Verkündigung und Forschung'', theological journal. * with Joachim Bahlcke: ''Die Reformierten in Schlesien. Vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Altpreußischen Union von 1817'', Göttingen 2016 (VIEG Beih. 106), . * ''Memoria – theologische Synthese – Autoritätenkonflikt. Die Rezeption Luthers und Melanchthons in der Schülergeneration'', Tübingen 2016 (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation 90), . * with Henning P. Jürgens: ''Auf den Spuren der Reformation in Rheinland-Pfalz'', Petersberg 2017, . * Schriftenreihe ''Controversia et Confessio. Theologische Kontroversen 1548–1577/80'', Göttingen. * with

Johannes Paulmann Johannes Paulmann (born October 4, 1960 in Darmstadt, Germany) is a German historian. Education Paulmann studied history and English at the universities of Munich and Leicester. Afterwards, he worked as an adult educator and as a researcher in ...

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References

External links

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Irene Dingel at the Leibniz Institute of European History

Website of Irene Dingel at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Irene Dingel at AcademiaNet

Long-term research and editorial project "Controversia et Confessio"

EGO , European History Online
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