Markus Vinzent

A. QUALIFICATIONS

HIGHER EDUCATION

1991-95: Habilitation, History of Theology, Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany

1987-91: Ph.D, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany

1978-83: Diplom, Philosophy and Theology, University of Eichstätt, Germany.

B. ACADEMIC POSTS

2010 - Professor of History of Theology, King’s College London.

1999-2010: HG Wood Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham (1999-2001 Head of Department)

1997-1999: C4-Professor for History of Theology, University of Cologne, Germany

1996-97: C4-Professor (non-tenure) for History of Theology in the times of the Reformation and Modernity, University of Mainz, Germany

1993-95: Senior Researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akadmie der Wissenschaft (tenure), Berlin

1991-93: Senior Research Fellow King’s College, Cambridge

C. VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2019 Fellow of CHRONOI, Freie Univeristy of Berlin

2017 Fellow of TOPOI, Humboldt University Berlin

2012- Fellow of the Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt University

2010-2016: Adjunct Professor, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

2001- Member of the European Academy of Science, Vienna

1991-93: Senior Research Fellow King’s College, Cambridge

D. GRANTS AND PRIZES

2020-2021 Prize of "Gutenberg Chair", University of Strasbourg, France, and the cercle Gutenberg (together with the Universite de Lorraine, Prof. Dr. Marie-Anne Vannier)

2018-2022 DFG/ANR major research grant on "Teaching and Preaching with Patristic auctoritates – Meister Eckhart in France and Germany, past and present"

2013-2016 AHRC major research grant on Meister Eckhart and the Early 14th c. Parisian University (£ 650,000)

2010-12: British Academy major grant ‘Early Christian Iconography and Epigraphy: A new approach to Dölger's classical project’ (£ 119,000)’

2000-2: ALTANA/BMW-Foundation (Quandt-Stiftung), major Industry-research grant on the trialogue of cultures (EUR 120,000) (the project is still ongoing with funding of over EUR 3m being invested into the project outcomes: School competition in the Trialogue of Cultures)

E. RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION

2008-: Member of Peer Review College (pool of reviewers), AHRC.

1999-2001: As Head of Department, I held overall responsibility for developing an integrated departmental research strategy and research profile for the RAE, including both Theology and Religious Studies.

F. RESEARCH LEADERSHIP AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PAST DIRECTION OF RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

2003- one of the Directors of the four-annual International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University.

2007 co-editorship of Studia Patristica, from 2010 editor-in-chief.

2000- conference on Theologians in Exile, Mainz, Germany which resulted in the publication of the proceedings

PRESENT DIRECTION OF RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS

Project ‘Early Christian Iconography and Epigraphy’.

May 2012 will be a follow up conference with international colleagues in Pec, Hungary for a conference on Early Christian Iconographic findings in Pec.

G. DOCTORAL SUPERVISION

Since entering employment as Professor in the UK in 1999, I have brought several students to completion of their doctoral work as first supervisor. These are:

• Rolfe King (‘Obstacles to Divine Revelation’)

• Jul Min Chun (‘Confucian Trinitarian Theology’)

• Minhu Chung (‘Mega-Churches and Mega-businesses’)

• Ulrike Lange (‘Hans Ehrenberg’)

• Karlheinz Weiss (‘The introduction of the Euro – and confessional financial institutions’)

• Silvia Pullig (‘Organisational change as cultural challenges’)

• Crispin Pailing (‘Karl Rahner’s Ecclesiology’)

• Stuart Curry (‘René Girard: Heidegger’s Heir à l’Étranger’)

• Andrew Harvey (‘Jeremy Taylor and Augustinian theology’)

• Gregory Roberts (‘Afro-Caribbean Entrepreneurship’)

• Nicola Spanu (‘Plotinus “Against the Gnostics”)

Current supervision in main areas of interest (Early Christian History with Patristics, Medieval Theology, Religion and Business)

H. EXTERNAL EXAMINERSHIPS

Research Degree

Heythrop (2010-).

I. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

From 1999-2001 Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Birmingham.

J. GUEST LECTURES AND INVITATIONS (peer reviewed)

2012: Conference on Religious organisations and identity in Roman Antiquity, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt

2012: Guest-lecture, Erfurt University, Germany

2012: Conference on Mysticism, Oxford University

2012: Mainz, Conference in Church Law and Financing Religions in Europe

2012: Deutscher Hochschulverband: Fundraising in Higher Education

2012: Meister-Eckhart-Gesellschaft, Muenchen

2011: Conference on Early Roman Liturgy, Oxford University

2011: Dominikaner-Akademie Duesseldorf

2011: Eckhart Society, London

2010: Meister Eckhart im Original: Fakten, Bilder und Legenden nach 750 Jahren, Meister-Eckhart Gesellschaft, Munich/Germany

2010: Rencontre à Paris 1310: Marguerite Porete, Dante, Lullus, Eckhart, Heinrich Heine Haus Paris/France

2010: Kollegforschergruppe „Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive“ des Max Weber Kollegs in Erfurt (MWK): Mystik, Recht und Freiheit. Die spätmittelalterliche Suche nach religiöser Erfahrung im Kontext der Inquisition und ihre heutige Bedeutung für die Debatte um religiöse Freiheit bzw. um Freiheit der Religion.

2010: International Medieval Congress, Leeds University/UK: Main evening lecture

2010: Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires: Cura Vitae in Medieval Thought

2010: Cambridge University: Patristic Seminar

2010: British Patristic Conference, University of Durham/UK

2009: Eckhart Society, London

2008: Eckhart Society, London

2007: Cambridge University/UK – Patristic Seminar

2006: International Patristic Conference, Oxford University: Seminar on M. Vinzent and the Origin of the Creed

2004: Politische Religion und Religionspolitik. Zwischen Totalitarismus und Buergerfreiheit, Hanna-Arendt-Institut, University of Dresden/Germany

2003: European Identity and cultural pluralism, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin – Birmingham – Bad Homburg.

2002: Literarische Konstituierung von Identifikationsfiguren in der Antike, Institut fuer Neutestamentliche Textforschung, Munster/Germany

2001: Marcion und seine kirchengeschichtliche Wirkung. Marcion and His Impact on Church History. Vorträge der Internationalen Fachkonferenz zu Marcion, Institut fuer Reformationsgeschichte, Mainz/Germany

2000- (annually): Research colloquia on Cyril of Alexandria, Against Julian, Istituto Svizzero di Roma/Schweizer Nationalfonds, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg/Germany

2000: „Beginn und Ende des Konstantinischen Zeitalters. Christen und Nichtchristen in Spätantike und Gegenwart - Parallelen, Kontraste“, Akademie der Wissenschaften, Heidelberg/Germany

N. GENERAL EDITORSHIPS

SERIES/JOURNALS:

2012- Editorial Board: Augustinianum

2011- Eckhart: Texts and Studies (Peeters, Leuven)

2010- Editor-in-Chief Studia Patristica (Peeters, Leuven)

2010- Board member of Adnotationes, Patristic Commentaries (Turnhout: Brepols)

2004- ‘After Augustine. A Survey of His Reception from 430 to 2000’

2001- Texts and Studies in the History of Theology