Academic function: University professor aD Short Biography: Born on 02.07.1937 in Meseritz (Neumark). Abitur 1957 in Lippstadt. 1957-59 studied the Lat. Philology, history and philosophy in Münster and Bonn. 1957-65 of the Ev. Theology in Bonn, Heidelberg and Münster. 1965 1. Theol. Examination (Protestant Church of Westphalia, Bielefeld). Vicariate. 2. Theol. Exam. Help service in Havixbeck-Nienberge. 1979 Ordination. 1969 Doctorate at the Ev.-Theol. Faculty of Münster (The young Zacharias Ursin. His journey from Philippism to Calvinism [1534-62]). From 1965 Wiss. Ass. At the Seminar for Religious Education, University of Applied Sciences Westphalia-Lippe, Münster. 1971 there Habilitation for the subjects of systematic theology and religious pedagogy. 1972 Prof. Since 1984 at the Ev.-Theol. Faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institute of Ev. Theology and their didactics. Member of the Wiss. Of the Fernstudienlehrs for Ev. (German Institute for Distance Studies at the University of Tübingen), the Advisory Board of the Educational Institute of the Protestant Church of Westphalia, Advisory Committee of the German Comenius Society. 1990-92 1. Chairman of the Deutsche Paul-Tillich-Gesellschaft. 1993-95 Dean of Ev.-Theol. Faculty. Married, three children.

Jan Amos Comenius - Pedagogy and Theology, Paul Tillich - Theology and Philosophy (among others Edition of his estate in: Supplementary and successive volumes to the Gesammelte Werke, publisher W. de Gruyter, Berlin and New York), Education and education in the understanding of evangelical theology, Systematic theology and religious education in its context.