Christoph Markschies

Christoph Markschies (born 1962) is a German theologian and historian of Christianity. 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. He served as the university’s president from 2005 to 2010 and later headed the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as its president. Markschies received the Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation in 2001 and the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2017.