Lorenz Jäger

Lorenz Jäger (born 6 June 1951 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) is a German sociologist and journalist.

Lorenz Jäger studied sociology and German literature at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

After his doctorate in German literature he taught at the Kent State University in Ohio.

Since 1 January 1997 he is editor in the liberal arts department of the German broadsheet Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Since 2009 he writes a column about religious topics in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, which was published as a book in 2010.