Ulrich L. Lehner

Short Biography

Ulrich L. Lehner studied at the University of Munich and Notre Dame and received his PhD from the University of Regensburg in 2005. After teaching 2 years at the University of Munich, he has been assistant professor of early modern religious history and historical theology at Marquette University, Milwaukee, since 2006. He was a member of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study (2009) and a fellow at the Institute for Comparative History of Religious Orders at the University of Eichstätt/Germany (2008). Lehner’s research focuses on Central European History and its religious traditions from 1648 to 1848. Among his many publications are three books, Historia Magistra (2005), Kant’s Concept of Providence (2007), and Enlightened Monks (forthcoming 2010), as well as numerous articles, reviews, and 10 edited volumes, including Brill’s Companion to the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe (together with M. Printy, forthcoming 2010), Beda Mayr’s Vertheidigung der katholischen Religion (2009), and Justinus Febronius abbreviatus et emendatus (2008).