b 1967 in Hannover married with Prof. Dr. Susanne Friede 1986-1993 Study of the Ev. Theology and Philosophy in Göttingen / Tübingen 1997 Doctorate in Göttingen 1998-1999 DAAD Research Fellowship, Research Associate at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (GB) 2000-2003 Promotion of the research project "Prayer" in the Emmy Noether Program of the DFG: independent research activity; Management of a junior research group in its own responsibility; Teaching at the University of Göttingen since 2003 Vicar of the Evangelical Lutheran Landeskirche of Hanover, 2006 Ordination, activity in the church district of Münden (until 2009) and in the church district Laatzen-Springe (until 2016), Since October 2016 University Hospital in Hannover May 2006 - April 2008 Extension of the DFG funding for his own research project "Prayer" in the Emmy Noether Program at the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, Münster December 2009 Habilitation in Münster; Venia legendi: New Testament and Hellenistic Judaism

New Testament and its environment, Philon of Alexandria