Görge Hasselhoff
goerge.hasselhoff@udo.edu
TU Dortmund
FB 14 Humanwissenschaften und Theologie
Emil-Figge-Str. 50; 2.406
D-44227 Dortmund / Germany
After studies in Theology, Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Bielefeld-Bethel, Marburg, Heidelberg, Berlin, Görge Hasselhoff held several positions as Research Assistant (1998-99 University of Heidelberg; 1999-2003 University of Bonn). In 2004 he finished his PhD in Church History (Heidelberg) with a monograph on the image of Moses Maimonides in the Latin mediaeval literature. From 2004 to 2008 he was Project Manager of the Research Group “Religious Interaction” (University of Bonn). In 2008 he was appointed Research Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religion” (Bochum). Until 2014 he conducted two Research Projects, one on Jerome’s Attitude towards Judaism, the other on the mediaeval Latin Translations of Rashi’s works. Since 2011 he has held several Guest and Visiting professorships (PUCRS, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil; Potsdam University, Germany; ETS, Sao Leopoldo, RS, Brazil). In 2012 he was rewarded a Karl-Ferdinand-Werner-Fellowship (DHI Paris). In 2015 he finished his Habilitation at Dortmund University.
Hasselhoff’s main research fields are the History of Christian-Jewish Relations (Antiquity to Early Modernity), Mediaeval Translations of Hebrew works into Latin, German and Swiss Reformation (Bucer, Calvin), Hermann Cohen and the Wissenschaft des Judentums. He conducts the edition of Ramon Martí’s Pugio Fidei (Santa Coloma de Queralt: Obrador Edendum, Publicacions UAB, Publicacions URV).
