Markus Vinzent

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Full Name	Markus Vinzent
Date Of Birth	Apr 12, 1959(1959-04-12)
Age	65
Country	Germany
Birth City	Saarbrücken
Horoscope	Aries

Markus Vinzent Biography

Markus Vinzent is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on April 12, 1959 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Markus Vinzent (born 1959) is a religious historian (specializing on early Christianity, Patristics and Medieval Studies, Historiography, Retromodernity, Religion and Business). He is the head of the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King’s College London, and fellow of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies, Erfurt, Germany.

In 2003 he initiated and co-authored the Birmingham study with Guidelines on the ‘Trialogue of Cultures’ as a result of a major 8-European-country study of teaching and learning about Islam, Judaism and Christianity in schools, funded by the ALTANA/BMW-Foundation (Herbert-Quandt-Stiftung) with a major research grant (2000-2002). The result was the development of a 10 year initiative that was funded by the foundation. from 2005 to the year 2015, more than 200 German schools participated in a trialogue contest. The goal was following the Guidelines to design and implement creative projects within schools to foster a more co-cultural living. The results been a source of publications, a kids broadcasting course offered by the Hessische Rundfunk and various other media.

Together with Professor Allen Brent, he has directed the major research project on ‘Early Christian Iconography and Epigraphy’, a project generously funded by the British Academy (2011–12); as prime investigator he was running the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded major research project on ‘Meister Eckhart and the early 14th century Parisian University’ (2013-2016) following his re-discovery of new Parisian Questions of this medieval philosopher and theologian. He is now co-leading together with Marie- Anne Vannier (Université de Lorraine, Metz) a major research project on ‘Teaching and Preaching with Patristic auctoritates – Meister Eckhart in France and Germany, past and present’, funded by the French Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (2018-2021).

Similarly, Vinzent has shown that the Christian Creed is a later development and, like that of Christian festivals (except Easter which was adopted from Judaism, but was radically altered by Marcion – a change which was adopted only at a time when the other festivals were introduced) is a product of the fourth century. Especially the Apostles’ Creed seems to have derived from the dogmatic disputes in 340 AD.

Since 2003, he’s been director for the International Conference on Patristic Studies He is also the editor-in chief for Studia Patristica, the conference’s official publication. He also started and is the editor of this series Studia Patristica Supplements and of the series Eckhart Texts and Studies.

Markus Vinzent Net Worth

Markus Vinzent is one of the richest Historian from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Markus Vinzent 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vinzent studied philosophy, theology, Jewish studies, ancient history, and archaeology at the Universities of Eichstatt, Paris (Diplom, Philosophy and Theology, 1978-83), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany (Ph.D., 1987-91), and Ruprecht-Karls Universitat Heidelberg, Germany (Postdoctoral research, Habilitation, 1991-5). He served as pastor between 1984 and 1991. Since the beginning of the 1990s, he’s also been a prolific businessman (IT, Internet, HR waste, energy infrastructure, utilities, and waste).

Vinzent has held academic posts as senior research fellow at King’s College, Cambridge (1991-3), senior research fellow at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaft (tenure), Berlin (1993-5), C4-professor (non-tenure) for history of theology in the times of the Reformation and Modernity, University of Mainz, Germany (1996-7), C4-professor for history of theology (tenure), University of Cologne, Germany (1997-9), HG Wood Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham (1999-2010), including a stint as head of department (1999-2001). Vinzent was appointed to his position in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London in September 2010. From 2010 to 2015, he was the Adjunct Professor at Korea University, Seoul. Since 2012, he has been a fellow of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies, Erfurt University. In 2015/2016, he was a the Fellow was from TOPOI, Humboldt University Berlin and in 2017/2018, a guest student in Augsburg University, Germany.

Vinzent supports the investigation of David Trobisch and Matthias Klinghardt (2011), which examines the origin of the post-Marconite gospels as ‘canonical redaction’. According to Klinghardt, the compilation of the 27 individual articles into a single literary unit is supposedly not the result of a coherent process of collection and selective procuration, but much rather the product of a single, or even multiple redactors. Vinzent combines these assumptions with the hypothesis, in that the redaction followed as a reaction to the Gospel of Marcion, and amongst other things, that it embodied an anti- Marconian current, which supposedly means that it was intended to be understood as a response to Marcion and as an alternative written in opposition to his condemned gospel. Vinzent sees evidence of this editorial intention in the writings of Origen of Alexandria, Irenaeus of Lyon, Tertullian, and Justin the Martyr. Thus Vinzent presents the following points:

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His latest research pertains to historiographical methodology. Influenced by the sociological debates of modernity, particularly through his fellowship at the Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, he reflected on the various turns (cultural turn, material turn), and developed his anachronological criticism further in his project on ‘Retrospection’. In this he highlights the paradox between the retrospective nature of any writing of history and the progressive form of language and any form of narrative, including that of history.

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In the latter field he has contributed major studies, but also discoveries of new texts by Meister Eckhart (four more Parisian Questions and others), provided the Biblical Index to the critical edition of Eckhart’s works in the Klostermann edition (Stuttgart), editions, translations and commentaries to Eckhart’s works. As a result, Eckhart is embedded more deeply within the discourse of the late 13th and early 14th century discourse of scholasticism at the University of Paris, Oxford and Erfurt. Moreover, it became clear that Eckhart was not only one of the most successful and debated preachers with a great impact on the development of his vernacular middle high German language, but that he was also a sought after and highly recognized University master with his Latin works. In a very recent new manuscript discovery at the Wartburg Castle of Eisenach, Germany, Eckhart’s own vernacular translation of some of his Latin works seems to be preserved (with a parallel codex in Berlin and fragments in Munich).