Karl Tetzlaff

Dr. Karl Tetzlaff is the Managing Director of the Leucorea Foundation in Wittenberg since October 1, 2023. He serves as a Lecturer at the Faculty of Theology of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and an associated postdoctoral researcher in the DFG long-term project on Friedrich Schleiermacher's Christian Moral Teaching.

• Primary Affiliation: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Faculty of Theology, Chair of Systematic Theology/Ethics)
• Current Role: Managing Director, Leucorea Foundation (Wittenberg)

Education:

• PhD in Systematic Theology (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 2021–2022; grade: summa cum laude)
• Studies in Protestant Theology (Humboldt University Berlin, Charles University Prague, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 2008–2016)

Research Interests intersect across Social Theory, Systematic Theology, and Romanticism, with a focus on Schleiermacher's ethics, religion-literature interplay, and theology of recognition. His work bridges historical context with modern cultural tensions.

Scientific Awards:

• Dorothea Erxleben Prize (2023) for humanities
• German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2018–2021)
• Konrad Adenauer Foundation fellowship (2009–2015)

Publications analyze themes like religion in contemporary fiction, modernity's theological ethics, and romanticism's cultural legacy. He edited volumes on Traugott Koch and Falk Wagner's theological-economic critiques.

Leadership & Collaboration: He co-organizes conferences at Leucorea Foundation, contributes to DFG Research Training Group Model Romanticism, and participates in interdisciplinary networks like the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of the European Enlightenment (IZEA).