Peter Schäfer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Peter Schäfer

German judaic scholar

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1943

Place of Birth: Hückeswagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Profession: university teacher, Judaic scholar, museum director

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Peter Schäfer (born 29 June 1943, Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a prolific German scholar of ancient religious studies, who has made contributions to the field of ancient Judaism and early Christianity through monographs, co-edited volumes, numerous articles, and his trademark synoptic editions.
He was a Professor of Religion and the Ronald O.
Perelman Professor of Judaic Studies at Princeton University from 1998 to 2013.
He was the director of the Jewish Museum of Berlin until June 2019 and quit his position amid criticism that the museum had expressed support for boycotting Israel.
Subsequently, over 45 Jewish scholars petitioned in favor of his reinstatement, and 445 other public figures signed a companion letter.[3] From 1983 to 2008 he was Professor for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Since 1993, he has been co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly.
Schäfer's research interests include Jewish history in late antiquity, the religion and literature of Rabbinic Judaism, Jewish mysticism, 19th- and 20th-century Wissenschaft des Judentums and Jewish magic.
He won the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in December 2006.
In 2014 he was awarded the Dr.
Leopold Lucas Prize by the Protestant Faculty of the University of Tübingen.Religiously, Schäfer is Catholic.