Ulrich Mell

I am, Ulrich Mell (born in 1956 in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein), a German Protestant theologian. From 2001 to 2022, I was a full professor of “Protestant Theology and its Didactics” at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hohenheim (Stuttgart).

In 1974, I studied education at the teacher training colleges in Hannover (Lower Saxony) and Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein). From 1975 to 1982, I studied Protestant Theology at the Faculty of Theology at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel and at the Protestant Faculty of Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen. Afterward, I served as a vicar for the North Elbe Protestant-Lutheran Church at St. Jakobi Church in Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein). I was ordained as a pastor of the North Elbe Protestant-Lutheran Church (now the Nordkirche) in 1984. From 1983 to 1998, I served first as a research associate, then as an assistant, and finally as a senior assistant at the Institute for New Testament Studies and Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Theology of Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel under the New Testament scholar and Jewish studies expert Jürgen Becker. In 1988, I received my doctorate from Christian-Albrechts University with a dissertation on “New Creation” in Paul, and I completed my habilitation in New Testament Studies in 1993 with a study on the Jerusalem scene in the Gospel of Mark (The “Other” Vineyard Workers). In 1995, I was a scholarship recipient of the Protestant Church in Germany for the “teaching course” at the “German Protestant Institute for the Study of Antiquity in the Holy Land,” directed by Prof. Dr. Volkmar Fritz. In 1998, I served as a visiting professor in the chair of “Protestant Theology and Its Didactics” at the Faculty of Education at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel. From 1998 to 2000, I served as a visiting professor in the chair of “Biblical Studies (Old Testament/New Testament),” first at the College of Education and subsequently at the Faculty of Education at the reestablished University of Erfurt.