Armin Baum

Biography

Dr.  Armin Baum is currently working as a  Professor in Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven,Belgium. After leaving the Abitur in Hanover , Baum studied Protestant Theology at the Free Theological Academy (FTA) in Giessen from 1984 to 1989. This was followed by doctoral studies from 1989 to 1990 at the Theological Universiteit van de Gere- formeerde Kerkenkampen in the Netherlands . From 1990 to 1992, he was a research assistant, and from 2006 he was a guest professor in the New Testament department at the university. In 1993, he was promoted to Doctor of Theology . Since 1993 he has been a lecturer and department head in the New Testament department at the FTA in Giessen , which was accredited as a university in 2008 and was renamed to Freie Theologische Hochschule Giessen. There he was appointed professor for the department New Testament on 1 April 2010.  At the same time, since 2006 he has also been a professor at the Protestant Theological Faculty in Leuven, New Testament. Since 1999 Baum has been the coordinator for the "New Testament Working Group" (FAGNT) within the framework of the work group for evangelical theology , to which he has been a member since 1993. He has many publiations by his name.Baum received the Johann-Tobias-Beck-Prize in 1994 for his work on Lukas as a historian of the last Jesus journey ,  where he investigates the truth-understanding of ancient authors

Research Interest

Theology.