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Christian Volkmar Witt is a Professor of Church History I (Reformation History and Middle Ages) and Director of the Institute for Late Middle Ages and Reformation at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He has held this position since October 2023 and previously served as interim chairholder (2021-2023). A Heisenberg Fellow (DFG, 2018-2023), Witt specializes in medieval and early modern theological order theories, marital/sexual ethics, and historiographical concepts of time.
- Research focus on late medieval confessional tensions and reformation movements
- Co-editor of Arbeiten zur Kirchen- und Theologiegeschichte series
- Active in Societas Mediaevistica Theologorum Evangelicorum and Zentrum Vormodernes Europa
His scholarly contributions include leadership roles in DFG networks examining 17th-century religious identity conflicts, Lutheran orthodoxy, and pluralistic religious perceptions (2015-2023). He received dual teaching excellence awards from Bergische University Wuppertal.
- Academic leadership: Director of Institute for Late Middle Ages and Reformation
- Current representative at the Landessynode der ELKW (2025)
