Prof. Irena Backus, Université de Genève
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Prof. Irena Backus

Nominated by

  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • AcademiaNet member since 04.09.2012
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • Université de Genève


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Arts and humanities


Field

Humanities



Area of specialisation

Intellectual esp. Religious History of the Early Modern Period



Research interests

  • G. W. Leibniz and Protestantism

  • History of Reception of Christian Antiquity in the Early Modern Era

  • History of biblical exegesis

  • The supernatural in the 16th and 17th centuries



Distinctions and Awards

  • Visiting professor at Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1994 and 2003

  • Various visiting sholarships and fellowships held at the Warburg Institute, London, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbütttel, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Ca., USA etc.



Interested in

  • Lectures, Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship, Refereeing
  • visiting fellowships or professorships


Languages

ancient Greek, English, French, German, Greek, Latin, Polish



Doctorate

  • 1976: University of Oxford


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • University of Berne




Selected publications

  • Backus, Irena (2014): Leibniz as Protestant Theologian and Religious Thinker

  • Backus, Irena (2008): Life Writing in Reformation Europe. Aldershot, Ashgate.

  • Backus, Irena (2003): Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the era of the Reformation. Leiden, Brill.

  • Backus, Irena (2003): Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse, Oxford, Oxford University Press

  • Backus Irena (editor): Reception of the Church Fathers in the West, from the Carolingians to the Maurists, Leiden, Brill, 1997.

  • Backus Irena (editor): Martini Buceri Enarratio in Evangelion Johannis, Leiden, Brill , 1988.


Membership in scientific bodies/juries

  • Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, Renaissance Quarterly, Brill Studies in Intellectual History

  • associate editor: Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception to Augustine, OUP, 2013

Additional qualifications

  • D. D. (Doctor of Divinity), University of Oxford, 2006

  • D. D. hon. causa (doctor honoris causa), University of Edinburgh, 2001


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