Wilhelm Baum

For the 19th century German surgeon, see Wilhelm Baum (surgeon).

Wilhelm Baum (born in 1948, Düsseldorf, Germany) is an Austrian historian, theologian, philosopher and publisher.

Biography

He studied history, German language and theology in Innsbruck, Rome, Mainz and Tübingen (two of his professors were Ernst Bloch and Hans Küng). In 1971, he became a doctor of philosophy and in 1999 in Graz a doctor of theology. In 1995, he taught medieval history at the university of Klagenfurt and at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. Now he lives in Klagenfurt, Austria, and works as a chief of a publishing house Kitab-Verlag, which he founded in 1999. He's a member of PEN club.

Bibliography

He wrote books about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper (translated into Spanish and Slovene) and studied the history of Christianity in the Near East and in India (Nestorian and the western-Syrian "monophysite" church). He wrote books and articles about history of Slovenes living in Carinthia. He is interested in minorities.

The following Baum's books were translated into English:

• The Church of the East. A Concise History (2003) [1]
• Shirin. Christian - Queen - Myth of Love. A woman of late antiquity - Historical reality and literary effect (2004) [2]
• Anton Kolig and Franz Wiegele. The Austrian painters of the "Nötsch circle" and Vienna about 1900 (2005)