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Friedrich Wilhelm Graf is professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, as well as a permanent fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. He is also chairman of the Commission for Theological-Historical Research at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and president of the Ernst-Troeltsch-Society. A leading liberal Protestant theologian and a public intellectual in Germany, Professor Graf has published widely history of Protestant and Roman Catholic theology since the Enlightenment and on a range of contemporary social and ethical issues. In 1999, he won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation, the highest honor awarded in German research.