Otfried Czaika

My research interests lie in the area of reformation studies and cover both reformation in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe and how different territories interacted with each other. I have therefore addressed questions related to migration and cultural transfer, but even worked on academic peregrinations and the transnational bookmarket in North Eastern Europe. Furthermore I have published on both 16th and 19th Century constitutional History in Scandinavia. During the last years I have worked quite extenisvely on the intersections between printing history and hymnology. Last but not least I discuss how reformation is remembered: How is the narrative of the reformation standardised e.g. through the national discourse, heuristic concepts and the periodization of history or bibliographies as works of standard? In conjunction with this my research has even focused on Swedish theology in the 20th Century, especially the Swedish Lutherrenaissance which has been seminal for the description of the reformation.