Prof. Dr. Dr. Martin Rothkegel

Research areas

religious history, focusing on the "nonconformist" movements in Europe during the late medieval and early modern periods (15th-18th centuries), including the Unity of Brethren, Baptists, Nontrinitarians, Spiritualists, and English Nonconformists

Graduated programmes, schools and thesis topics, academic degrees

1990–1996: studies in Greek and Latin philology, theology and pedagogy in Hamburg, Thessaloniki, Vienna and Prague

2001: Th. D., Protestant Theology Faculty, Charles University, thesis title: Vom Humanismus zum Sabbatarismus: Die Nikolsburger Täuferreformation, 1524–1535 / From Humanism to Sabbatarianism: The Anabaptist Reformation in Nikolsburg, 1524–1535 

2005: Dr. phil., University of Hamburg, thesis title: Die lateinische Korrepondenz des Olmützer Bischofs Stanislav Thurzó / The Latin Correpondence of Stanislav Thurzó, Bishop of Olomouc

2021: Habilitation Procedure (Dr. theol. habil.), Georg August University of Göttingen, thesis title: Valentin Krautwald, Vorlesung über das Matthäusevangelium / Valentin Krautwald, A Lecture on the Gospel of Matthew

International grants and projects

2001–2003: Katalog der hutterischen Handschriften und der Drucke aus hutterischem Besitz in Europa / Catalogue of Christian Manuscripts of the 16th-17th Centuries in European Collections

2003–2004: Edition of Baptismal Letters and Treatises from the Burgerbibliothek Bern, Cod. 464

2005–2005: Edition of the Correspondence of the Hamburg Philosopher and Naturalist Joachim Jungius (1587–1657)

od 2009: Bibliotheca dissidentium. Répertoire des non-conformistes religieux des seizième et dix-septième siècles / Bibliotheca dissidentium. Directory of Religious non-Conformists of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Principal Investigator

2011–: Acta Unitatis Fratrum – Regestenedition. Deutsch-tschechische Kommission für die Herausgabe der Acta Unitatis Fratrum / Acta Unitatis Fratrum – Edition of the Regesten, Czech-German Commission for the Publication of the Acta Unitatis Fratrum on behalf of the Directorate of the Continental Province of Europe of the Unity of Brethren, team member

Teaching activities

Elstal Theological Seminary (since 2007)

Membership in domestic and foreign professional societies and scientific councils

Member of the Historical Commission for the Bohemian Lands [Historische Kommission für die Böhmischen Länder] (since 2020)
Member of the Research group on religious non-conformism in the 16th and 17th centuries and the history of Protestantism [Groupe de recherches sur les non-conformismes religieux des XVIe et XVIIe siècles et l’histoire des protestantismes (G.R.E.N.E.P.)] (since 2005)
Member of the Anabaptist Records Commission of the Association for the History of the Reformation [Täuferaktenkommission des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte] (since 2005)

Significant awards

2006: Joachim Jungius Prize of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences [Joachim Jungius-Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften] (Hamburg)