Hans Schwarz (theologian)

Hans Schwarz (born January 5, 1939, in Schwabach, Germany) is a German Lutheran theologian.

After graduation from the Gymnasium (high school) in Schwabach, Schwarz studied theology and English literature at the Universities of Erlangen and Göttingen.

In 1963 he passed the entrance exam of the Lutheran Church of Bavaria and obtained his Dr. theol.

Schwarz has been invited to various visiting professorships: 1973/64 at the Augustana Hochschule in Neuendettelsau, Germany, 1974 at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, and 2008 at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as 1985–2008 at the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, SC, US, where he taught every second year for one semester.

For more than forty years he has been a member of the American Academy of Religion where he has served numerous times on steering committees especially of the 19th Century Theology Group and the Lutheran Theologies and Global Lutheranism Group.