Contact
Jasper Althaus
-Research and Teaching Assistant-
Postal Adress:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Theologische Fakultät
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Office: Burgstraße 26
Raum 521
Tel: 30-2093 91813
E-Mail: jasper.althaus[at]hu-berlin.de
Office hours: Mondays 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Please register per e-mail.
Personal Details
| since 2024 | Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Early Modern and Modern History of Christianity, Theological Faculty, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 2024-2025 |
Erasmus Coordinator, Theological Faculty, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 2021 | First Theological Examination/Diploma in Protestant Theology |
| 2018/2019 | Ecumenical study year (Centro Melantone / Melanchthon-Zentrum) in Rome at various pontifical universities and at the protestant Facoltá Valdese di Teologia |
| 2016–2021 | Scholarship by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung |
| 2015–2021 | Studies in Protestant Theology in Berlin, Rome, and Marburg |
Dissertation Project
One missionary community? Concepts of Community in the Rhenish Missionary Society 1828–1880 (working title)
In the early years of the Rhenish Missionary Society, I want to investigate the question of how the missionary society was theoretically conceived, theologically reflected and practically lived as a community. Who saw themselves as part of it and was recognized as such? Where did the boundaries of this community run? And what tension existed between theological convictions, efforts of standardisation, and community practices? I assume that the different community conceptions were negotiated in an ongoing process. Not only the leaders but in particular non-European Christians had a share in shaping the mission. They adopted the community ideas of the European missionaries, rejected them in parts, developed new social structures and thus filles decisive roles in the mission.
Publications
With Sophie Schulz: Conference Report: Christian Internationalism in war and post-war times, c. 1890–1930, in: H-Soz-Kult, 28.02.2025, https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-153346.
Conference Report: Mass Conversion and Baptism in the History of Christianity, in: H-Soz-Kult, 17.10.2024, http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-150571.
Mit Matthias Loerbroks: Predigt zu Genesis 4,1-6. 27. Januar 2023. Französische Friedrichstadtkirche, in: Alexander Deeg/Marie Hecke/Christian Staffa (Hg.): Evangelium an dunklen Tagen. Predigten zum 9. November und zum 27. Januar (SKI.NF 29), Leipzig 2024, 233-238.
Tagungsbericht: Massentaufen und Massenbekehrungen in der Geschichte des Christentums. Geschichte und Berichte, in: H-Soz-Kult, 24.08.2023, www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-138067.
Tagungsbericht: Cultural Encounters and the Origins of Violence, in: H-Soz-Kult, 18.08.2023, www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-137943.
Lectures
SoSe 2025
- Proseminar: Jean Calvin's Ecclesiology in the fourth book of his "Institutio Christianae Religionis"
(Mo, 14–16 Uhr) - Excercise: A World full of Relationships. Relations in the Understanding of History of Christianity and Systematic Theology
(Mo, 10-12 Uhr; with Dr. Nicole Kunkel)
WiSe 2023/24
- Proseminar: Studieneingangsprojekt (Do, 16–18)
- Proseminar: Martin Luthers Katechismen (Do, 14–16)
SoSe 2023
- Proseminar: Philipp Jacob Speners Pia Desideria (Do, 14–16)
WiSe 2022/23
- Proseminar: Der Gottesdienst in der Reformation (Do, 14–16)
- Übung: Die jüdisch-christlichen Beziehungen in der DDR (Do, 16–18)
SoSe 2022
- Proseminar: Martin Luther und die Auseinandersetzung um die Taufe (Di, 12–14 Uhr)