Matthias Th. Kloft
Department of Catholic Theology
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Matthias Kloft, born in Bonn in 1959, studied Catholic theology and Oriental Studies in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main from 1978-1983. After the pastoral training and priestly ordination for the bishopric of Limburg, he completed a doctorate in Catholic theology and middle and modern history at the University of Münster in 1988-1992, where he gave his dissertation "Oratores vestri monent" (The Bishop's Office) of the Carolingian Empire in the mirror of legal and theological texts ". As a cathedral chaplain to St. Bartholomew in Frankfurt am Main (1992-1995), he was involved in the preparation of the Frankfurt Council and City Jubilee 1994 in the bishopric order. From 1995 to 2014 pastor of the Herz Jesu-Gemeinde in Frankfurt-Eckenheim.
Research Interest
Regional and national history of the history of Hesse and Nassau, the Diocese of Limburg and the city of Frankfurt
