Her work has examined theological, cultural, and historical questions in the areas of history, philology, art, childhood, women, and health in Early Christianity and specifically in the churches of Northeast Africa, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.
[1][2] Cornelia Horn was born in Hardheim to Christa (born Teichmann) and Johann Albert Horn and grew up on the family farm in Steinbach, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, the oldest of three children.
[3] Upon completing her Abitur at the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gymnasium in Wertheim am Main, she studied classical philology, theology, philosophy, Oriental Christian languages, Church history, art History, and computer-aided linguistic text analysis in Germany (University of Würzburg), Liechtenstein, the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the University of Texas at Austin.
[4] In 2001 she received a PhD from the Catholic University of America with a thesis on the life and theology of 5th century bishop, ascetic, and theologian Peter the Iberian, under the supervision of Sidney H. Griffith.
Since January, 2023 she is the director of the [Mesrop Center for Armenian Studies,[8] which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.