Matthias Klinghardt (born August 24, 1957 in Waldshut-Tiengen) is a German Protestant theologian and university professor.
In 1986 he received his doctorate from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Heidelberg University under Klaus Berger.
His dissertation was supported by a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes from 1983 to the end of 1986.
This was followed by a research and teaching stay in the United States from 1988 to 1989, during this one-year study stay he was assistant professor at the Department of Religious Studies, Rice University[2] in Houston (Texas).
In 1994 he went to the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Heidelberg in the area of New Testament.