WB
The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Austrian academic
Gender:
Male
Places:
Work field:
Birth:
1 January 1948(Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Government Region, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Wilhelm Baum (born 1948 in 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.