ly become established as a leading historian of the Catholic Church. He is regarded as the outstanding representative of a younger generation of church historians who have taken their subject out of the narrower disciplinary ghetto and incorporated it into the wider interdisciplinary contexts of political and economic history. One of the outstanding characteristics of Hubert Wolf's work is the way in which he orders and effectively evaluates the enormous numbers of sources of recent times. As early as 1992 Hubert Wolf had access to the archives of the Inquisition and the papal Congregation of the Index, which proved fortunate for his branch of science. After the archives were officially opened in 1999 he was appointed to the international advisory board of the archive for the Congregation of the Roman Catholic faith. The evaluation of these archives, which has been supported by the DFG as part of a long-term project, has resulted in what can reasonably be described as an explosion in Hubert Wolf's scientific output.

On top of his scientific achievements, Hubert Wolf is also an accomplished scientific communicator who has expressed his opinions in many articles in newspapers and periodicals as well as on radio and television. He is also a talented academic teacher and motivator for his more junior colleagues.

Hubert Wolf studied Catholic theology at the Universities of Tübingen and Munich, obtained his doctorate (Dr. theol) in 1990 and was ordained as a priest in 1995. Just eighteen months later he qualified as a lecturer in Tbingen in the field of church history from the Middle Ages to the present day. In December 1991 he was awarded his first C4 professorship in church history at the University of Frankfurt. He was later offered professorships at Vienna, Cologne and Tbingen, all of which he turned down, and in May 2000 he was offered a professorship at Mnster, which he accepted.

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Contact: Ursula Rogmans-Beucher
ursula.rogmans-beucher@dfg.de
49-228-885-2726
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
3-Apr-2003

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