Scientific Team
The editorial team, consisting of Prof. Beat Föllmi, Prof. Ansgar Franz and Dr. Christiane Schäfer, shares responsibility for the scientific content of the database.
Data collection is carried out by a team from the two partner universities and is mainly performed by staff at the Research Centre for Church Music and Hymnals in Mainz.
Technical support for the database is provided by the University of Strasbourg within the Open Access of Knowledge (univOAK) platform, under the direction of Prof. Beat Föllmi.
Prof. Dr. Beat Föllmi
Musicologist and theologian Beat Föllmi has been Professor of Church Music and Hymnology at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Strasbourg since 2012. In the field of hymnology, he is particularly interested in psalm singing in the Reformed tradition and in questions of church hymns and identity. He was one of the directors of an axe of CREAA (Centre de recherche et d’expérimentation sur l’acte artistique). Föllmi also heads the scholarly complete edition of the works of Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (Zurich). Among other things, he is a member of the editorial team of the journals Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses (Strasbourg) and Foi & Vie (Paris).
bfollmi@unistra.fr
Prof. Dr. Ansgar Franz
Since 2005, Ansgar Franz is Professor of Liturgical Studies and Homiletics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. His research focuses on traditions and rites surrounding death and burial, the position of the Old Testament in Christian liturgies, Latin medieval hymnography and German church hymns. He is editor of the series "Pietas Liturgica" and "Pietas Liturgica.Studia. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Liturgical Studies" (Francke Verlag) and director of the Mainz research centre "Kirchenlied und Gesangbuch" (Church Hymns and Hymnals).
ansgar.franz@uni-mainz.de
Dr. Christiane Schäfer
Christiane Schäfer studied German language and literature, book science and folklore at the University of Mainz. She earned her doctorate in modern German literary history with a thesis on the topic ‘Wunderschön prächtige – Geschichte eines Marienliedes’ (Tübingen: Francke 2006, MHS 18). Since 2010, she has been a research assistant at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and deputy head of the research centre ‘Kirchenlied und Gesangbuch’ (Church Hymns and Hymnals). She is also the editor of the series ‘Mainzer Hymnologische Studien’ (Mainz Hymnological Studies) (Francke Verlag).
christiane.schaefer@uni-mainz.de