Thomas Kaufmann

Thomas Kaufmann (born 1962) studied Protestant theology in Münster, Tübingen and Göttingen. After earning his doctorate in 1990 and completing his habilitation in 1994, he was professor of church history at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1996 to 2000; in 2000 he took up a professorship in church history at the University of Göttingen. Kaufmann has published works on the theological, cultural and social history of Christianity in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, including “Erlöste und Verdammte. Eine Geschichte der Reformation” and “Martin Luther”. He received the Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 1998 and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2020.