Senior-Forschungsprofessorin an der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz und der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz
Conflict over Theological Truth – Polemical Publications as Strategies for the Formation of Confessional Identity in the 16th Century
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Irene Dingel was professor of historical theology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main from 1994 to 1998 and a professor of church and dogmatic history at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1998 to 2022. From 2005 to 2022, she served as director of the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, Department of Western Religious History. Since 2022, she has been a Senior Research Professor at Johannes Gutenberg University and the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. She is a full member of this academy and a recipient of the Rhineland-Palatinate Order of Merit. In 2020, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Strasbourg, and in 2025, an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen.
Irene Dingel has published numerous works, particularly on the history of the Reformation, the formation of confessional groups and the culture of controversy in the 16th century. From 2003 to 2022, she directed the research and editorial project “Controversia et Confessio: A Collection of Sources on the Formation of Confessions and Confessionalization (1548–1577/1580)”. She currently leads the long-term research projects “European Religious Peace. Digital” (EuReD) and “Flacius Correspondence. Digital.”
