Christine Christ-von Wedel

In 2015, Christine Christ-von Wedel received the prestigious Basel Wissenschaftspreis for her work on Humanism, Reformation and mission history. She is an honorary research fellow in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Basel and at the Institut für Schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte, University of Zurich. She is a highly respected Erasmus specialist, and her recent publications include the well-received book Erasmus of Rotterdam. Advocate of a New Christianity. Albert de Pury grew up in Basel/Switzerland and taught Old Testament at the universities of Neuchâtel and Geneva. He holds honorary doctorates of the universities of Budapest (Károli Gáspár Univerity) and Zurich. Apart from being a specialist in Biblical literature, he has become a renowned cartoonist.