Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Dr. theol. h.c. Dr. phil. h.c. Thomas Kaufmann

born 1962 in Cuxhaven, married to Prof. Dr. Antje Roggenkamp, three Children (NIklas, Marikje, Frederik)
1981 Abitur in Cuxhaven
1981-1987 Studies in Protestant Theology in Münster, Tübingen and Göttingen
1987 First theological Exam of the Evang.-Lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers
1988-1989 Lecturer (Repetent) of the State Church at the Faculty for Protestant Theology, University of Göttingen
1989-1993 Research Assistant at the Faculty for Protestant Theology, University of Göttingen (Chair Prof. Moeller)
1990 Doctorate in Theology
1993-1994 Research Assistant at the Faculty for Protestant Theology, University of Göttingen
1994 Habilitation in Church History, University of Göttingen
Head Research Assistant in Göttingen
1996 Professor of Church History at Faculty for Protestant Theology (Chair II), LMU München
1998 Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Akademiepreis)
2000 Professor of Church History, University of Göttingen
2000 Directeur d’études at the École pratique des Hautes Études, Section des sciences religieuses, Paris
2003-2005 Dean of the Faculty of Theology, University of Göttingen
2005 Received an offer for the chair of Church History, Basel, CH (rejected)
2011 Received an offer for the W 3-professorhip for Church History II at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2012-2016 First Vice President of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony and Head of the ‘Philologisch-Historische Klasse’
since 2015 Member of the PEN-Club
since 2016 Abbot of Bursfelde
2016 Fellow of the ‘Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften’ of the Goethe University Frankfurt in Bad Homburg
2016-2017 Opus Magnum Grant of the Volkswagen Foundation
2017/1 Dr. theol. h.c. of the MF, Norwegian School of Theology
2017/9 Dr. phil. h.c. of the University of Oslo (UiO)
2020 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award of the German Research Foundation
2020 Elected as Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy

Offices and functions

  • Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Selection Committee (since 2017);
  • Board of trustees of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel (since 2017);
  • Member of the board of the Association for Reformation History (chair since 2011);
  • Full Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony;
  • Member of the Commission for Research into the Late Middle Ages at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences;
  • Review board ‘Theology’ of the German Research Foundation (2004-2008; 2012-2016);
  • Central selection committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010-2017).


Team
Dr. Gabriele Ball
Dr. Henning Bühmann
Dr. Alyssa Lehr Evans
PD Dr. Martin Gierl
Tobias Graßmann
Sarah Hilmer
Wolfgang Huber
Dr. Saskia Limbach
Dr. Christine Ruhrberg
Dr. Christoph Schönau