Irmtraud Fischer

Irmtraud Fischer, born in 1957, studied Catholic theology in Graz, where she received her doctorate in 1988. In 1993, she became the first woman to receive a habilitation at a Catholic theological faculty in Austria. From 1997 to 2004, she was professor of Old Testament and theological women’s studies at the University of Bonn. In 2004, she took up a professorship in Old Testament biblical studies at the Catholic-Theological Faculty of the University of Graz.