Jörg Rüpke

Jörg Rüpke (born December 27, 1962 in Herford, West Germany) is a German scholar of comparative religion and classical philology, recipient of the Prix Gay Lussac-Humboldt in 2008, and of the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council in 2011. In January 2012, Rüpke was appointed by German Federal President Christian Wulff to the German Council of Science and Humanities.

Rüpke studied comparative religions, Latin and theology at the University of Bonn, Lancaster University and University of Tübingen. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from Tübingen University with a thesis on the religious construction of war in Rome, and remained at the university for a habilitation thesis on the Roman calendar. Rüpke received his venia legendi in Comparative Religions in 1994, to which he added the venia legendi in Philology the following year.

Rüpke taught Latin at the University of Potsdam between 1995 and 1999, when he became Professor for Comparative Religions at the University of Erfurt. From 2000 to 2008, he chaired the German Research Foundation Priority Program 1080 Roman Imperial and Provincial Religions, of which many notable religious scholars were part. From 2006–08, Rüpke was part of the German Research Foundation Research Training Group 896 Concepts of the Divine and of the World, chaired by Hermann Spieckermann at the University of Göttingen. Since 2008, he has acted as co-director alongside Hans Joas for the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies' Religious Individualization in Historical Perspectives project as well as fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt. He chairs the Graduate School in Erfurt for “Religions in Modernization Processes”.

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