Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976 in Straubing, Bavaria, Germany) is the Warren Foundation Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
In 2006 he received his PhD in theology from the Universität Regensburg with a thesis on the concept of providence of Immanuel Kant and Protestant scholasticism.
[5] In 2013 he declined a job offer for a professorship in German Literature at the University of Kansas [6] and in 2019 for the Warren Chair at Duke Divinity School.
Since 2013 he has penned several studies on clergy crimes, uncovering century old patterns of secrecy and deception about violent and sexual abuse.
[17][18][19][20] In 2023 he published a monograph on sexual crimes in the pre-1773 Society of Jesus, entitled Staged Chastity,[21] which has also attracted international attention.