Werner Jeanrond

Werner Günter Adolf Jeanrond is Master of St Benet's Hall at the University of Oxford.

Background

Werner G Jeanrond is a German Roman Catholic theologian. He was born in 1955 in Saarbrücken in the Saar Protectorate, now Saarland, Germany. He is currently Master of St Benet's Hall, a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion. He is the first lay Master in the history of St. Benet's Hall.

Education and Academic Career

Professor Jeanrond studied theology, German language and literature, and educational science at the Universities of Saarbrücken, Regensburg and Chicago. In 1979, he took his Masters Degree (Staatsexamen) at the University of Saarbrücken and in 1984 his PhD at the University of Chicago (under the direction of David Tracy and Paul Ricoeur). In 1985, he was awarded the degree of MA at the University of Dublin.

From 1981 to 1994, he was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in theology at the University of Dublin and Fellow of Trinity College.From 1995 to 2007, he was Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Lund in Sweden. While in Lund, he supervised the doctoral dissertation of Antje Jackelén who is now the first woman to be Archbishop of Uppsala and Primate of the Church of Sweden.