Ulrich Volp

Professor of Church History and History of Doctrine
(Ancient Church)


Photo/©: Stefan F. Sämmer

Research Interests:

  • Patristic ethics
  • Early Christianity and the pagan environment: philosophy, rhetoric, and mathematics (including death and the afterlife, ritual practices, and music; Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, Macarius Magnes, Porphyry)
  • Reception history of patristic theology and ethics
  • Digital Humanities in Patristic Studies

CV:

Since 2008
Professor of Church History and History of Doctrine, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2006–2008
Acting Professorships (*Lehrstuhlvertretungen*) at the Universities of Mainz and Bonn

2005/2006
Habilitation, University of Bonn

2001/2002
Doctorate (PhD), University of Bonn

2000–2006
Research Assistant / Assistant Lecturer, University of Bonn

1999–2000
Research Assistant / Assistant Lecturer, University of Birmingham

1990–1998
Studies in Protestant Theology at the Universities of Heidelberg, St Andrews, and Marburg; Classics at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse)

Born in 1971 in Marburg