Christoph Markschies
Author · 4 books
Christoph Markschies (born 1962) is a German Protestant theologian and church historian. He studied Protestant theology, classical philology and philosophy in Marburg, Jerusalem, Munich and Tübingen, where he received his doctorate in 1991 and completed his habilitation in 1994. After holding professorships in Jena and Heidelberg, he taught patristics and ancient Christianity at Humboldt University of Berlin from 2004. Markschies received the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2001 and several honorary doctorates. He is a member of several scholarly academies.