dissertation on Ignatius, bishop of Antioch in the early
The Author Kurt Niederwimmer was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1929. He took his doctoral degree in 1956 with a dissertation on Ignatius, bishop of Antioch in the early second century, Grundzuge der Theologie des Ignatius von
Antiochien, and completed his Habilitationsschrift in 1962. From 1973 to 1997 he held the chair in New
Testament on the faculty of the Evangelisch-theologische Fakultat at the University of Vienna. His research interests have included the study of the New Testament and the early church as well as hermeneutical and philosophical issues of New Testament interpretation. In addition to his commentary on the Didache, his publica tions include Der Begriff der Freiheit im Neuen Testament
(TBT 11; Berlin: Topelmann, 1966); Askese und Mysterium. Uber Ehe, Ehescheidung und Eheverzicht in den
Anfangen des christlichen Glaubens (FRLANT 113; Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975), and his collected essays: Quaestiones theologicae. Gesammelte
Aufsatze (ed. Wilhelm Pratscher and Markus Ohler; BZNW 90; Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 1998).