Person
Prof. Dr. theol.Daniela Blum
Temporary ProfessorResearch and Teaching Area Church History
Address
Building: 6070
Room: 253
Theaterplatz 14
52062 Aachen
Consultation hours
- By appointment via e-mail
Biography
- Since April 2022
Chair representative at the Chair of Church History at the Institute of Catholic Theology at RWTH Aachen University - 2020/2021
Parental leave - 2019-2022
Research assistant at the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg - Since 2019
Project manager at the WIN College of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Project "Holy Lives" [https://www.hadw-bw.de/junge-wissenschaft/win-kolleg/Teilprogramm7/heiligenleben] - 2014-2019
Research assistant at the Chair of Medieval and Modern Church History at the University of Tübingen - 2011-2014
Research fellow in the Research Training Group 1662 "Religious Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe (800-1800)" - 2011
Graduate theologian - 2005-2011
Studies of Catholic Theology (Dipl.), Political Science and Psychology (M.A.) in Tübingen and Rome
Research focus
- High medieval church and art history
- Hagiography and theology
- Christian body concepts and body-soul relationships
- Pictorial theology of the Middle Ages
- Early Modern Period
- Multi-confessionalism
- Denominational historiography
- Didactics: Teaching and learning processes in church and theological history and in museums
Awards/Third-party funding
- Project leader in the WIN-Kolleg with the continuation project "Figurations of sanctity between individual decision and collective recognition (950-1750)" (2022-2023); with Dr Beatrice von Lüpke (Vienna), Dr Marie Gunreben (Constance) and Dr Christoph Haack (Tübingen)
- Project leader in the WIN-Kolleg of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities with the project "Heiligenleben: Narrated Holiness between Individual Decision and Collective Recognition" (2018-2021); with Dr Beatrice von Lüpke (Tübingen), Dr Marie Gunreben (Konstanz) and Associate Professor Dr Nicolas Detering (Bern)
- Funding within the framework of the Athene Programme for Young Women Scientists of the Excellence Initiative of the University of Tübingen (2017-19).
- Lepold Lucas Young Scientist Award for the dissertation, 2016
- Doctoral Prize of the University of Tübingen for the dissertation, 2015
- Schöpflin Prize of the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe for the dissertation, 2015
- Hefele Prize of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart for the dissertation, 2011
Networking
- Working Group of Church Historians in German-speaking Countries [https://www.uni-regensburg.de/theologie/agkg/startseite/index.html]
- Agenda - Forum katholischer Theologinnen e.V. [https://www.agenda-theologinnen-forum.de/]
- IGTM - International Society for Theological Medieval Studies [https://medievaltheology.org/]
- Society of Upper Swabia for History and Culture [https://www.gesellschaft-oberschwaben.de]
- Member of the Board of the Historical Society of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart [https://www.gv-drs.de/index.php?id=31]
- Member of the Historical Commission of the Ecclesiastical Court for the Beatification of Eugen Bolz
- Alumna of the Cusanuswerk - Episcopal Study Foundation [https://www.cusanuswerk.de/startseite]
Publications
A selection of the publications can be downloaded here.