Christiane Schäfer studied German philology, book studies, and folklore in Mainz. She earned her doctorate in modern German literary history with a thesis on “Wunderschön prächtige – Geschichte eines Marianenliedes” (“Wondrously beautiful and magnificent – History of a Marian hymn”; Tübingen: Francke 2006). Since 2010 she has been a research associate at the “Kirchenlied und Gesangbuch” (church hymn and hymnal) research centre at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She is co-editor of the “Mainzer Hymnologische Studien” series.
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