Irene Dingel (born April 26, 1956 in Werdohl, Germany) is a German historian and a Protestant theologian.
Irene Dingel studied Protestant theology and Romance studies in Heidelberg and Paris. From 1981 until 1982 she was an "Élève à titre étranger" at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Fontenay-aux-Roses, and she also worked as an editor at the same time. Between 1982 and 1993 she was a scientific assistant at the theological faculty of Heidelberg University, where she also received several research grants. In 1986 she finished her doctorate in Heidelberg, which was followed by her habilitation in 1993. After that Dingel was a substitute professor and then a professor of historical theology at the Goethe University Frankfurt until 1998). Since 1998 she has held the chair of ecclesiastical history and the history of dogma at the faculty of Protestant history of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In addition, Dingel became the head of the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz in 2005, as director of the Department of Western Religious History.
Dingel is a member of different academic boards and associations, including:
Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature
Board member of the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte[1]
Member of the Academic Advisory Commission "Evangelische Kirchenordnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities[2]
Member of the Inter-Academy Management Committee of the Leibniz-Edition
Member of the Academic Advisory Council of the "Interdisziplinäres Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (IKFN)" at the University of Osnabrück[3]
Member of the University Council of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Since February 2012 Dingel is also a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities.[4] On June 27, 2015 she was awarded the "Hermann-Sasse-Preis" of the Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church.[5]
Dingel's research interests are the history of the Reformation and of the Confessionalization. Besides that she's also engaged in the research of the early Enlightenment in Western Europe.
^"Members of the board of the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte". Verein für Reformationsgeschichte. 24 January 2011. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
^"Commissions of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities". Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
^"Academic Advisory Council of the IFKN". University of Osnabrück. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
^"Five AcademiaNet researchers in the German Council of Science and Humanities". AcademiaNet. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
^"Sasse-Preis for Dr. Dingel". Taunus Zeitung (Frankfurter Neue Presse). 30 June 2015. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
IreneDingel (born April 26, 1956 in Werdohl, Germany) is a German historian and a Protestant theologian. IreneDingel studied Protestant theology and...
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University Press. pp. 145–50.Hardy, Duncan (2021), "Landfrieden", in Dingel, Irene (ed.), Handbuch Frieden im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit / Handbook of Peace...
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and Contests of The Book of Concord. Augsburg Fortress, 2001. (With IreneDingel, Nicole Kuropka, and Timothy J. Wengert) Philip Melanchthon: Theologian...
Geschichte der Universität Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917 IreneDingel, Günther Wartenberg: Die Theologische Fakultät Wittenberg 1502 bis 1602...
departments were headed up by a director, as they still are (currently IreneDingel and Johannes Paulmann). Today, the directors also hold professorships...
Music History, 16, 203-234. doi:10.1017/S0261127900001728 Robert Kolb; IreneDingel; L'ubomír Batka (24 April 2014). The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's...
Leucorea vom Sommersemester 1536 bis zum Wintersemester 1574/75. In IreneDingel, Günther Wartenberg: Georg Major (1502-1574) - Ein Theologe der Wittenberger...
Leucorea vom Sommersemester 1536 bis zum Wintersemester 1574/75. In: IreneDingel, Günther Wartenberg: Georg Major (1502–1574). Ein Theologe der Wittenberger...
ISBN 3-515-08907-1. [1] Christian Peters: Polykarp Leyser in Wittenberg. In: IreneDingel and Günther Wartenberg (ed.): Die Theologische Fakultät Wittenberg 1502...
Leucorea vom Sommersemester 1536 bis zum Wintersemester 1574/75. In IreneDingel and Günther Wartenberg, Georg Major (1502-1574) - Ein Theologe der Wittenberger...
gravestone is in the town church of Neu-Mügeln. Catholic Church in Germany IreneDingel (ed.) (2014). Die Bekenntnisschriften der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche...
Concord as a Reflection of Sixteenth-Century Confessional Development (by IreneDingel. Lutheran Quarterly. Winter 2001 Issue. Volume XV, Number 4) "Archived...
Wilhelm (ADW), Prof. Dr. Michael Matheus (IGL), Prof. Dr. Falko Daim (RGZM), Prof. Dr. IreneDingel (IEG). Photographer: Prof. Dr. Ernst-Dieter Hehl....
Geschichte der Universität Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917 IreneDingel und Günther Wartenberg: Die Theologische Fakultät Wittenberg 1502 bis...
Church Leucorea the summer term 1536 and winter semester 1574/75". In: IreneDingel and Günther Wartenberg : George Major (1502-1574). A theologian of the...
Pharmazie am Hof Albrechts von Preußen (in German). pp. 41–46, 103–106. Dingel, Irene. Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche Bd. 1 (in German). p. 1256. Ersch...
Fortress. ISBN 978-1-4514-9415-0 – via Project MUSE. Kolb, Robert; Dingel, Irene; Batka, Ľubomír (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's Theology...
the doges. London: T. W. Laurie. p. 264. Retrieved December 3, 2023. Dingel, Irene (April 17, 2023). Der Osiandrische Streit (1550–1570) (in German). Vandenhoeck...
Croatian). Matice Hrvatske. p. 6. Retrieved August 1, 2023. Kohnle, Armin; Dingel, Irene (April 1, 2021). Die Crucigers: Caspar der Ältere, Caspar der Jüngere...
crucifixes and crosses, candles, and objects of sacred art. Kolb, Robert; Dingel, Irene; Batka, Lubomír (24 April 2014). The Oxford Handbook of Martin Luther's...
Gegenwart ; 2. 6 (in German). Kreidel. p. 352. Retrieved 28 January 2024. Dingel, Irene (21 July 2010). Reaktionen auf das Augsburger Interim: Der Interimistische...
Controversialist: Polemics in the Late Reformation. Church History 45 (4): 455–68 Dingel, Irene (2020). Georg Major on Church Fathers and Councils. Lutheran Quarterly...