Werner G Jeanrond | |
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Dr Jeanrond in 2012 at Glasgow University
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Born |
Werner Günter Adolf Jeanrond 2 March 1955 Saarbrücken, Saar Protectorate |
Citizenship | German |
Education | Staatsexamen (Saarbrücken), PhD (Chicago), MA (Dublin), MA (Oxford) |
Alma mater | University of Saarland |
Occupation | Theologian |
Years active | 1981 – present |
Employer |
St Benet's Hall University of Oxford |
Spouse(s) | Betty Claesson Jeanrond |
Werner Günter Adolf Jeanrond is Master of St Benet's Hall at the University of Oxford.
Werner G Jeanrond is a German Roman Catholic theologian. He was born in 1955 in Saarbrücken in the Saar Protectorate, now Saarland, Germany. He is currently Master of St Benet's Hall, a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion. He is the first lay Master in the history of St. Benet's Hall.
Professor Jeanrond studied theology, German language and literature, and educational science at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Regensburg and Chicago. In 1979, he took his master's degree (Staatsexamen) at the University of Saarbrücken. In 1984, he was awarded a PhD at the University of Chicago (under the direction of David Tracy and Paul Ricoeur) where he was a Fullbright scholar. In 1985, he was awarded the degree of MA jure officii at the University of Dublin.