19.11.2021

Irene Dingel receives honorary doctorate from the Université de Strasbourg

IEG Director Irene Dingel has been honoured with the title of Dr. honoris causa from the Université de Strasbourg in 2020. The honorary doctorate is awarded to her because of her excellent, personal research achievements and her commitment to cross-border cooperation. With her research on the Reformation, confessionalisation and peacemaking, she provides important impulses on current social problems. As director of the IEG and through the research programmes she has initiated, she has made an invaluable contribution to the dissemination of knowledge and better understanding of European history, as well as to the promotion of academic networking and international exchange between young researchers from all over the world.

Photo: Irene Dingel, photographer: ©Jean-François Badias, https://www.unistra.fr/universite/notre-histoire/personnalites-prestigieuses-1/docteur-honoris-causa/docteur-honoris-causa-2020/irene-dingel

Through her regular participation in colloquia and her editorial work on the Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses of the Institute, among other things, Irene Dingel has long been closely associated with the "Faculté de théologie protestante" and the "Unité de recherche de théologie protestante". With the biophysicist and Nobel laureate Jacques Dubochet, the German chemist Klaus Müllen and the biochemist and president of Ochanomizu University Kimiko Murofushi, three other scientists were honoured alongside her.