Privatdozentin Dr. Andrea Hofmann
Alfried Krupp Junior Fellow
(October 2022 - September 2023)
- Studied Protestant theology and musicology in Heidelberg and Salzburg; Doctorate in Church History, Heidelberg Faculty of Theology
- 2018/2019 DFG research grant at the Faculty of Theology in Strasbourg
- Associated researcher at the Leibniz Institute for European History Mainz
- 2022 Habilitation and granting of the Venia Legendi in Church History at the Faculty of Theology in Mainz
Fellow project: "In frölichkeit Sein lob außbreitt. Frauen und die Ausbildung evangelischer Frömmigkeit in der Reformationszeit und im Konfessionellen Zeitalter“
A large number of hymns, prayerbooks, and devotional books from the early modern period were written by women. The project asks how women from different Protestant denominations and social positions contributed to the formation of Protestant piety and thus to the perpetuation of Reformation ideas in society by publishing prayer and devotional books and by writing spiritual songs between 1520 and 1700. It is precisely through this „small literature“, which to this day has only been indexed in individual cases, that - according to the initial thesis of the project - the everyday and pious life of the people and thus also Protestant theology in the early modern period were decisively shaped. By indexing and systematically analyzing the sources, the research project inscribes these writings and their authors in the history of Christianity as important actors of the early modern period.